Science Talk

Windows Devices Go Down, COVID Rates Go Up, and Tornadoes Touchdown on the Ground and on the Big Screen


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President Biden is far from the only positive as COVID is experiencing a summer surge. Windows malfunction grounds planes and causes outages for banks, hospitals and emergency services. The Perseid meteor shower gives you plenty of shooting stars to see. Plus, we use the Twisters premiere as an excuse to talk about wild weather.


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COVID Rates Are Rising Again. Why Does It Spread So Well in the Summer? 

Worldwide Tech Outage Started with Defective Crowdstrike Update to Microsoft Windows

[WATCH] Tornado Science is Evolving Fast 


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