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“It took more than two years for the World Health Organization to officially acknowledge that Covid spread through the air. Now, five years after Dr. Morawska started sounding the alarm, scientists are paying more attention to how other diseases may also spread through the air. At the top of their list is the bird flu. ... If the bird flu gains the ability to spread from person to person, it could produce the next pandemic. So some flu experts are anxiously tracking changes that could make the virus airborne, drifting in tiny droplets through hospitals, restaurants, and other shared spaces, where its next victims could inhale it.”

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“Scientists have detected an unexpected electromagnetic phenomenon in space: ‘chorus waves’, a type of wave that, when converted into audio, produces a sound eerily similar to birdsong. This discovery, made over 100,000 kilometers from Earth, challenges existing theories about their formation and could revolutionize space weather forecasting.”

“Apple has been consistent in not allowing pornography into the App Store. But changes in the EU have allowed independent app stores to arrive and these have their own views on what’s permissible. So, the arrival of the first porn app in the AltStore PAL store has caused a commotion — and Apple has taken the rare step of commenting. The app is called Hot Tub and launched on Monday, Feb. 3 in the AltStore PAL app store from developer Riley Testut and is described as an adult content browser. Apps in these alternative app stores in the EU require notarization rather than the full approval process usually applied.”