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F.D.A. Tells J.&J. to Throw Out 60 Million Doses Made at Troubled Plant Source: New York Times WASHINGTON — Federal regulators have told Johnson & Johnson that about 60 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine produced at a troubled Baltimore factory cannot be used because of possible contam...

McDonald's latest company to be hit by a data breach Source: AP McDonald's has become the latest company to be hit by a data breach after unauthorized activity on its network exposed the personal data of some customers in South Korea and Taiwan. McDonald's Corp. said Friday that it quickly identifie...

New method makes generic polymers luminescent https://phys.org/news/2021-06-method-polymers-luminescent.html by Hokkaido University Researchers from Hokkaido University have successfully developed a new method to give luminescent properties to generic polymers, such as polystyrene and polyethylene. ...

Researchers observe sound-light pulses in 2D materials for the first time https://phys.org/news/2021-06-sound-light-pulses-2d-materials.html by Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Using an ultrafast transmission electron microscope, researchers from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology ...

ALMA discovers earliest gigantic black hole storm by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan https://phys.org/news/2021-06-alma-earliest-gigantic-black-hole.html Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) discovered a titanic galactic wind driven by a supermassive b...

Citizen scientists discover two gaseous planets around a bright, sun-like star https://phys.org/news/2021-06-citizen-scientists-gaseous-planets-bright.html by Elizabeth Landau, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center At night, seven-year-old Miguel likes talking to his father Cesar Rubio about planets an...

Photos show Chinese rover on dusty, rocky Martian surface Source: AP BEIJING (AP) — The dusty, rocky Martian surface and a Chinese rover and lander bearing small national flags were seen in photos released Friday that the rover took on the red planet. The four pictures released by the China National...

Murdoch's Sun, U.K.'s Biggest Paper for Decades, Now Worth Zero Source: Bloomberg Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. wrote down the value of its once high-flying Sun title to zero, underscoring the dramatic decline in Britain’s newspaper industry. The tabloid’s blend of gossip and right-wing political cove...

Evidence grows stronger for Covid vaccine link to heart issue, CDC says Source: NBC News A higher-than-usual number of cases of a type of heart inflammation has been reported following Covid-19 vaccination, especially among young men following their second dose of an mRNA vaccine, the Centers for Di...

Europe will join the space party at Planet Venus Jonathan Amos https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57416589 You wait ages for a mission to Venus and then three come along at once. The European Space Agency has just selected a probe called Envision to go study the second planet from the Sun....