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China looks to recovered to develop effective COVID-19 treatments

Dr Kong Yuefeng, a recovered COVID-19 patient who has passed his 14-day quarantine, donates plasma at a clinic in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. Plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients contains antibodies that can help reduce the virus effect in critically ill patients, according to China’s National Health Commission. [Yuan Zheng/EPA]

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Students should stay in Wuhan as Pakistan cannot treat coronavirus: Envoy

Dashing the hopes of the several Pakistani citizens stuck in coronavirus-hit Wuhan, Pakistan’s ambassador to China, on Sunday told a Pak-based news channel that no evacuation is possible because of lack of medical facilities in Pakistan.

Antarctica’s biggest glacier still losing ice

Antarctica’s biggest glacier still losing ice, thinning in a new way

Antarctica’s biggest glacier still losing ice

New mission will take 1st peek at Sun’s poles.

“We are going to be able to map what we ‘touch’ with the in situ instruments and what we ‘see’ with remote sensing,” said Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla, NASA deputy project scientist for the mission.

Crocodiles suffering for luxury leather bags in Vietnam

Crocodiles Die Horrifically In Vietnam For Louis Vuitton Leather Bags

PETA has exposed suffering on reptile farms in the U.S. and Africa, and now eyewitness footage reveals the horrifying reality for tens of thousands of crocodiles in Vietnam raised and violently killed to make “luxury” leather bags sold around the world. Two of the farms investigated supply crocodile skins to Louis Vuitton’s parent company, LVMH, and “some of the biggest brands,” according to a farm owner.

NASA Fungi Homes for Moon, Mars

NASA Building Homes Made of Fungi for Moon, Mars

Instead of habitats made of metal and glass, NASA is exploring technologies that could grow structures out of fungi to become our future homes in the stars, and perhaps lead to more sustainable ways of living on Earth as well. Creating a livable home for future astronauts means doing more than growing a roof to go over their heads.

World’s First Living Machine: Frog cells and AI

World’s First ‘Living Machine’ Created Using Frog Cells and Artificial Intelligence

What happens when you take cells from frog embryos and grow them into new organisms that were “evolved” by algorithms? You get something that researchers are calling the world’s first “living machine.”