If you have been paying any attention to the news
over the past few weeks, you may have heard of the
exponential rise and the equally dramatic drop in
the share price of video game retailer GameStop
(GME) and other "meme" stocks — those favored by
millennials — like AMC Theaters. The two-week
frenzy, which pitted individual amateur investors a......
Read news articleSupreme Court Justice and feminist icon Ruth Bader
Ginsburg died at her home in Washington, DC, on
September 18, 2020, from complications of
metastatic pancreatic cancer. The 87-year-old, who
was appointed to the nation's highest court by
President Bill Clinton in 1993, was the longest sitting
Supreme Court Justice. She was also only the seco......
Read news articleThe solar system is about to get busy! In the next
few weeks, a slew of spacecraft will embark on a
one-way journey to Mars, to seek evidence of past
life and to further investigate its unusual
atmosphere. The back-to-back missions are timed to
take advantage of the short window of opportunity
— caused by celestial mechanics — that will allow t......
Read news articleOne of the biggest challenges to battling the rapid
spread of COVID-19 is identifying and isolating
people who are infected before the symptoms, which
usually take between 3 to 13 days to surface. Now,
frontline workers may get some help from canines
who can "sniff out" the disease even when the
patient is asymptomatic, meaning he or she never......
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