According to vaccine maker CanSino, one breath of their vaccine mist provides protection against COVID-19. The dose will be used as a booster and is the first approved alternative to injectable COVID-19 vaccines. The inhaled vaccine has the same ingredients as the intramuscular vaccine in China, but uses a nebulizer machine to turn it from a liquid into an easily inhaled aerosol spray. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that a single-dose of the CanSino shot is about 92 percent effective at preventing severe disease and about 58 percent effective at preventing COVID-19 entirely....

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, China has been making some ambitious space plans backed by multi-step procedures and lots of money. On the docket: reusable space plans, nuclear-powered spaceships, and robotic moon bases. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) plans to fly its reusable space plane for the first time in 2020, and have it carry taikonauts and freight into space by 2025. The China Academy of Launch Technology (a CASC subsidiary) research and development Director Chen Hongbo told the official Xinhua News Agency that the two-stage spaceplane would be rocket-powered at first, and will be able to fly off a runway at hypersonic speeds to near space....

That’s a change from the controversial One Child Policy, implemented in 1980 and intended to limit the country’s exploding population growth and strain on resources. Officials estimate that in its 35 years, the policy has prevented 400 million births. That’s a significant number, even in a country with a population of 1.3 billion. But the policy had a number of unintended consequences on Chinese society. First, there are now significantly fewer women than men—if a family was limited to one child, many wanted to stick to conservative values and bear a male heir, so many female children were killed or aborted....

A new study in Cell found that young calves can be successfully trained to poop and pee in designated areas. And the researchers think if expanded on a broader scale, this practice could have a big impact on controlling ammonia waste—one of agriculture’s dirtiest greenhouse gas and pollution problems. “It’s usually assumed that cattle are not capable of controlling defecation or urination,” co-author Jan Langbein, an animal psychologist at the Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN) in Germany said in a release....

In the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, Congress specified special rules for model airplanes, flown for hobby or recreational purposes, and charged the FAA with creating rules to govern the growing field of small unmanned aerial vehicles, specifically ones that fell outside this hobbyist/model airplane exception. In December 2015, the FAA announced that all owners of unmanned vehicles weighing more than 250 grams (or roughly as much as two sticks of butter) had to register as a drone operator, in a national database of drone users....

As climate change causes more Arctic ice to melt, many more tourism, fishing and cargo ships, as well as oil and gas and mining companies, are heading to the once-ice covered High North. So far most commercial activity has occurred in ice-free waters in the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. But in 2010 the historically ice-clogged Northern Sea Route, which skirts Russia to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, opened up enough to allow an ice breaker to cross from Norway to China....

How do you know if food that’s fallen on the floor is safe to eat? What’s the quickest way to battle the burn of spicy food? Science! Head to foodnetwork.com/fooddetectives to learn more; and be sure to tune in every Tuesday at 9pm to the Food Network.

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To lop a few hundred dollars off of the final ticket price, it makes sense that these lightweight, stripped-down laptops like the MSI Wind and ASUS Eee PC would offer an option for Linux instead of Microsoft’s pricey operating system. But, does Joe Windows know what he’s getting into with Linux? This week, I installed Ubuntu on my Macbook Pro to get a taste of what today’s desktop Linux experience is like, and I can see why those return rates might be so high....

Or maybe not. Your morning routine is what you regularly do when you wake up. For most people, that’s getting out of bed, having breakfast, getting dressed, brushing your teeth, and heading into work. There is, however, a productivity movement driven by people like Tim Ferriss and James Clear that suggests having a morning ritual that includes activities such as meditating, journaling, exercise, and other healthy and mindfulness-oriented practices to get your day started....

But on June 24, astronomers who combed through images from a lunar satellite spotted not only the location of the crash but a double crater—two gaps superimposed on each other—left behind on the moon’s surface. The discovery may help space agencies learn what happens when something artificial strikes the moon. Two overlapping divots make up the double crater. An eastern crater 19.5 yards in diameter overlays a 17.5-yard-wide western one....

Continental TerrainContact H/T tire in profile The tire Travys is hauling gear and supplies on is the Continental TerrainContact H/T, a premium all-season tire designed for light-trucks and full-sized SUVs. It balances on-road manners with off-road durability and features TractionPlus Technology, which provides improved traction and durability, better grip on wet roads, and quiet road noise. 

We’re used to hearing about Escherichia coli (better known simply as E. coli) as a horrific pathogen on the nightly news, and it’s true that E. coli outbreaks are dangerous public health threats. But not only are you carrying some around in your intestines right now, you actually owe a debt to these microbes—they’re the foundation for much of modern science and medicine. Engineered E. coli produce the mRNA component of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, for instance....

If the sun dropped back down to that magnitude today, our planet would plunge into an ice age dramatic enough to bury the continents in miles-thick ice sheets and freeze the oceans solid. But according to the geological evidence, ancient Earth was not frozen: It was covered in vast liquid oceans and dotted over with arcs of island chains that sprouted up from undersea volcanoes and then wore back down again in the rain....

The study identified grains of the mineral zircon in a Martian meteorite that appeared to be “shocked” by high pressures, indicating large impacts on the Martian surface. These meteorite impacts hit rocks with unimaginable pressure, “essentially squeezing them like an accordion,” says Aaron J. Cavosie, a geologist at the Space Science and Technology Centre at Curtin University in Australia and an author of the study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances....

Published today in Nature, researchers from the Center for Astrophysics and the Space Telescope Science Institute have created a 3D map that reconstructs the evolutionary history of the “Local Bubble,” a 1,000-light-year-wide cavity of cold gas and dust that’s responsible for the formation of all nearby young stars—including our sun. The study reveals that Earth and all of the stars and star-forming regions within 500 light-years of the planet reside on the surface of this bubble, which is good insight, according to Catherine Zucker, astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute and lead author of the study....

So whether you’re looking to distract your kids with some videos or keep up your fitness while you’re at home, there’s bound to be at least one entry on this list that makes your life a little more bearable until we get back to normal. Free live TV news on Hulu Maybe you don’t want to spend too much time watching the news with the world in the state it is today, but it’s important to stay informed....

Because that’s the only possible explanation for what happened. There must be a more complete version of the story somewhere, and a lot of details we don’t have, because that sort of proactive, hyper-aggressive move from a high-profile, persistently-under-fire-himself corporate CEO could not possibly have come from a simple blog post. It just doesn’t add up. Alsop’s original post, titled “Dear @ElonMusk: You should be ashamed of yourself” and posted on Medium back on September 15, was a fairly benign rant about the Model X launch event....

Epigenetics is the study of how genes turn on or off depending on a person’s behaviors and environment. Geneticists know that fraternal twins run in families, which suggests something in our DNA makes some people more likely to birth fraternal twins than others. But since identical twins happen more randomly, there’s likely no genetic component. To investigate whether epigenetics play a role in identical twin development, an international team of researchers analyzed the genomes of more than 6,000 individuals around the world, including identical twins, fraternal twins, and non-twin family members....

When social distancing began, however, users flocked to Zoom for their group chats—it turns out people wanted work-style conference calls with video. That’s one of the few video calling corners Facebook hadn’t yet explored. Last week, however, Mark Zuckerberg introduced Facebook Messenger Rooms. Like Zoom, it allows large groups of people—the new Rooms feature allows up to 50 participants at a time—to have a large meeting. Unlike Zoom, however, there’s no time limit for free accounts....