COVID vulnerability, COVID and climate, iring a cannonball at an asteroid and a fossil ‘wonderchicken’
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How aging increases vulnerability to COVID-19 and how pollution can make it worse. COVID-19 has led to huge emissions reductions — can we learn from this? ‘Wonderchicken’ walked among the dinosaurs just before the mass extinction. Japanese space scientists shoot an asteroid to learn about its past.
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