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President Donald Trump announced a halt to American payments to the World Health Organization, pending a review of its warnings about the coronavirus and China.Nations around the world reacted with alarm to the news, and health experts warned the move could jeopardize global efforts to stop the coronavirus pandemic.The first tentative steps in lifting the…

Tech22:45 GMT 14.04.2020Get short URLA team of French scientists assert the COVID-19 novel coronavirus has to be exposed to temperatures almost at the boiling point of water to kill the virus and ensure no functioning virions remain. Previous theories about warmer weather kicking the novel coronavirus to the curb have been further discredited after the…

By Leah Crane Qubits may not need to be as supercooled as usual to work in a quantum computerCredit: Luca Petit for QuTech Quantum computing is heating up. For the first time, quantum computer chips have been operated at a temperature above -272°C, or 1 Kelvin. That may still seem frigid, but is just warm…

By Jessica Hamzelou More benefits of breastfeeding?Oksana Kuzmina/Alamy A healthy set of gut bacteria seems to play a vital role in protecting us from a host of disorders – but what about the billions of viruses that interact with these bacteria? Although babies seem to be born without any such viruses, their guts become home…

An Arizona man became the first in the state to survive coronavirus with a rare blood treatment called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy (ECMO), The Arizona Republic reported Tuesday. Enes Dedic, 53, is among the first U.S. COVID-19 patients to survive with ECMO therapy and about one of 10 patients to survive the therapy worldwide. ECMO was…