Economic Indicators10 hours ago (Apr 07, 2020 02:00PM ET) (C) Reuters. The spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Fayetteville By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – Workplace disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are expected to wipe out labor equivalent to the effort of 195 million full-time workers, or 6.7% […]
Colombian businesses call for more aid after quarantine extension
Economic Indicators10 hours ago (Apr 07, 2020 01:40PM ET) 2/2 (C) Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Health workers protest with an ambulance caravan demanding payment of their wages, in Bogota 2/2 BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian businesses on Tuesday called on the government to expand measures to help companies weather coronavirus, after President […]
Why Does Covid-19 Make Some People So Sick? Ask Their DNA
SARS-CoV-2, the pandemic coronavirus that surfaced for the first time in China last year, is an equal opportunity invader. If you’re a human, it wants in. Regardless of age, race, or sex, the virus appears to infect people at the same rate. Which makes sense, given that it’s a totally […]
U.S. job openings fall; coronavirus shutdowns seen causing further declines
(C) Reuters. The spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Fayetteville By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. job openings fell in February, suggesting the labor market was losing momentum even before stringent measures to control the novel coronavirus outbreak shuttered businesses, throwing millions out of work. That was underscored […]
Reporters without masks ask Trump about his mask
Sometimes it’s hard to tell when reporters are joking and when they’re being serious. On Sunday at the White House daily coronavirus press briefing, more than one reporter asked the president about whether or not he should be wearing a mask to the briefings…while they themselves, were not wearing masks. […]
Turns Out, Traffic Spreads Like the Coronavirus
Just as the novel coronavirus has spread from person to person across the world, so too does traffic propagate through highways and city centers like a contagious disease. From a single crash, congestion ripples through a city, and now scientists have the models to prove it. Researchers in Australia, Iran, […]
U.S. Job Openings Were Elevated Before Virus Spurred Layoffs
Forex14 hours ago (Apr 07, 2020 10:27AM ET) (C) Bloomberg. A pedestrian walks past a closed store on Fordham Road in the Bronx borough of New York on April 2. Photographer: David Dee Delgado/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — U.S. job openings remained elevated in February, offering little more than a benchmark of […]
The Power Plant of the Future Is Right in Your Home
Before he took the helm of Holy Cross in 2018, Hannegan was the founding director of the Energy Systems Integration Facility at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory outside of Denver. The facility was conceived as a “grid-in-a-box” where researchers could study how solar panels, electric cars, battery storage systems, and […]
Optimism Among U.S. Small Businesses Plummets by Most Ever
Forex15 hours ago (Apr 07, 2020 08:45AM ET) (C) Reuters. Optimism Among U.S. Small Businesses Plummets by Most Ever (Bloomberg) — Sentiment among U.S. small businesses collapsed in March by the most on record and owners’ outlooks deteriorated swiftly amid the economic disruptions caused by the global health crisis. The […]
One Way to Potentially Track Covid-19? Sewage Surveillance
Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong, a graduate student at Stanford, does not have much experience as a sewage courier–normally, they’re busy studying genetics. But as with many of us, the pandemic is upending routines. Since early March, Sinnott-Armstrong has been making the rounds of the Bay Area’s wastewater treatment plants, collecting samples that […]