By Steve Gorman -A 42-year-old data engineer on the first all-civilian astronaut crew to reach orbit made some spaceflight history on Friday, with a zero-gravity ukulele performance in a SpaceX capsule hundreds of miles above Earth's surface. Chris Sembroski, a Lockheed Martin employee and U.S. Air Force veteran, strummed a few chords for home-bound viewers during a 10-minute

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A ukulele in space? Inspiration4 crew shows a playful side in orbit

That experience can be shared even if the people are far apart, as long as they are attentively listening to the story.

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A new study has found that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is evolving to get better at becoming airborne in its newer variant forms, raising concerns that loose-fitting face masks only provide "modest control" against infection.

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The QCovid calculator was used to identify an extra 1.5 million people for the government's shielding list in February this year. Now the Oxford University team has designed an algorithm to see how at risk someone is, even after two doses of vaccine.

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COVID-19: QCovid tool's new algorithm identifies those most at-risk from coronavirus after vaccination

A study led by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has found that treating women with HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer with the HER2-targeting antibody-drug conjugate trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) significantly prolongs the length of time the disease is controlled and cancer growth is halted when compared to the current standard of care, trastuzumab emtansine (T

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After hours of discussion and a request to revise the question they were being asked, a key federal advisory committee on Friday agreed to a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine six months after full vaccination for people aged 65 and older and those at high risk of severe COVID-19.



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A new study ties the COVID-19 pandemic to an “alarming” increase in obesity in U.S. children and teenagers.

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Study: Childhood obesity in U.S. accelerated during pandemic

"I have authority over my body," the meteorologist, Karl Bohnak, wrote in a Facebook post announcing his termination.

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A meteorologist was fired from his TV station after 33 years at the job because he refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of birds migrating through New York City this week died after crashing into the city's glass towers, a mass casualty event spotlighted by a New York City Audubon volunteer's tweets showing the World Trade Center…

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