by Xurui Tan | Jul 30, 2020 | Education, Featured
Raven Liu always thought that she had a chance, however slim it was, to travel from Beijing to the University of Southern California to attend her first semester in person, even during a pandemic. “It’s meaningless to learn online because I study film production,” the...
by Xurui Tan | Jul 29, 2020 | Environment, Featured
Removing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is a critical step in tamping down global temperature rise and meeting the Paris Agreement’s long-term temperature goal, energy experts told Congress on Tuesday. Experts from the U.S. Department of Energy,...
by Xurui Tan | Jul 28, 2020 | Featured, Health
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released a new food safety initiative —called the New Era of Smarter Food Safety — that aims to use technology to better trace foodborne illness. “The most encouraging aspect of this is that FDA really has innovative and...
by Xurui Tan | Jul 22, 2020 | Coronavirus
Elderly Black and Latino Americans are more likely to get infected and die from COVID-19, often due to historic distrust of the healthcare system, and may be less likely to get vaccinated when a vaccine is ready, health experts told a Senate committee Tuesday. Experts...
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by Xurui Tan | Jul 21, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured
Kizzy Williams, the owner of Allie B’s Cozy Kitchen, still remembers preparing to open her restaurant six years ago: She scrubbed the stove, stored food and relied on a network of customers and employees to keep her business afloat. Because of the pandemic, she...
