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The U.S. surpassed 500,000 COVID deaths on Monday.

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According to new research from Strategy Analytics, half the world’s entire population now owns a smartphone in June 2021. Some 4 billion people use a smartphone today. It has taken 27 years to reach this historic milestone. Exhibit 1: Global Smartphone User Base: % of World Population(1) (Source: Strategy Analytics, Inc.) Yiwen Wu, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics, said, “We estimate the global smartphone user base has risen dramatically from just 30k people in 1994 to 1.00 billion in 2012, and a record 3.95 billion today in June 2021. With an estimated 7.90 billion people in total on the planet in June 2021, it means 50% of the whole world now owns a smartphone. It has taken 27 years to reach this historic milestone.” Linda Sui, Senior Director at Strategy Analytics, added, “The world’s first modern smartphone, IBM Simon, was launched commercially in the United States way back in 1994. This was followed by other famous models, such as the Nokia 9110 Communicator in 1998 and

The once oil-rich country lacks vaccines and performs few tests as Covid-19 rages, with some people choosing to die at home to avoid hospitals short of electricity and oxygen.

The Trevor Project's 2021 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health is the organization's third annual, cross-sectional national survey of LGBTQ youth across the United States. We hope this report elevates the voices and experiences of diverse LGBTQ youth, providing insights that can be used by researchers, policymakers, and the many organizations working to support LGBTQ youth around the world.

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New data from Israel suggests a link between myocarditis and Pfizer’s vaccine, but the CDC isn’t there yet.

Overwatch League will pay more than $80,000 to the University of Hawaii for the right to fly teams to Oahu four times this summer and access an undersea internet cable connecting the U.S. to Japan.…

A team of undergraduates lead by a professor at Cold Spring Harbor demonstrated that many targeted drugs do not work as expected. Target discovery is the pharmaceutical industry's grand challenge.

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The story of how systemic racism took root in policy and addiction treatment dates back to 1800s. Here's what history and research reveal.

A representative for the hackers who breached EA said they bought the cookie from a site called Genesis Market.

We surveyed Americans and a panel of nutrition experts about which foods they thought were good or bad for you.

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The country’s official figures grossly understate the pandemic’s true effects. Our estimates, informed by more than a dozen experts’ research, range from very bad to catastrophic.