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Mpls. flight attendant with monkeypox symptoms says she struggled to get tested

Mpls. flight attendant with monkeypox symptoms says she struggled to get tested

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Joan Sullivan has cold symptoms and pimple-like rashes on her body, and zero idea yet whether it is because of monkeypox. The 29-year-old Minneapolis flight attendant struggled for five days to seek testing from the Minnesota Department of Health and two designated clinics in the Twin Cities. While clinics are urging testing for men who …

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Watch Live as SpaceX Attempts Its First Direct Launch to the Moon

Watch Live as SpaceX Attempts Its First Direct Launch to the Moon

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A Falcon 9 rocket during launch this past July. Photo: SpaceX South Korea is embarking on its first lunar mission, and SpaceX has been brought in to help. You can catch this historic launch live right here. Hard to believe, but the upcoming launch marks the first time that SpaceX will directly send a payload …

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An Adélie penguin family.

Over 60 million years ago, penguins abandoned flight for swimming. Here’s how.

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Penguins are perhaps best known for being flightless birds whose wings help them “fly” through frigid Antarctic waters. But penguins lost their ability to fly and instead became streamlined swimmers some 60 million years ago, long before the Antarctic ice sheet formed — and researchers have now revealed how that happened. A new study of …

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