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If you’re looking for a self-improvement task during this pandemic era, try teaching yourself to use contactless payments with your phone or “tap-to-pay” credit and debit cards. Any germaphobe will tell you that the surfaces of bills and coins have always been gross. And handing your credit card to a cashier who has the sniffles …

By Shavonne Potts [email protected] SALISBURY — A local man faces drug-related and breaking and entering charges after a police officer stopped him for a dirty license plate appeared to be covered on purpose. The man was also tied to a home break-in earlier this month, and his wife was also issued a citation for misdemeanor …

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Lopez’s hits included If I Had A Hammer and Lemon Tree Mexican-American singer Trini Lopez, who had a hit in 1963 with his version of If I Had A Hammer and played one of The Dirty Dozen, has died at 83. Lopez, an accomplished guitarist, was mentored by Buddy …

Trini Lopez, who was known for his hit “If I Had a Hammer,” is dead. He was 83. Lopez’s close friend and collaborator Joe Chavira confirmed the death to Fox News on Tuesday and explained that he died due to coronavirus complications. According to Chavira, Lopez had been “in and out” of the hospital for …

Image copyright Copernicus Data/Esa/Airbus/M.Pourshamsi Image caption The satellite data suggests NO2 concentrations are picking up in the big cities Some of the dirty air associated with vehicles seems to be creeping up again as the UK eases itself out of lockdown. The latest data acquired by the EU’s Sentinel-5P spacecraft, which was built in the …

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Tens of millions of animals are farmed for their fur around the world, including raccoon dogs Mink have contracted coronavirus, adding to the list of animals known to be at risk of catching the virus. Mink at two fur farms in The Netherlands tested positive for Covid-19 a week …

An activated carbon filter — found in many household filtration systems—can purify your drinking water, but it’s no match for wastewater that contains military-grade explosives. To clean wastewater from munitions processing and demilitarization, a pair of University of Delaware environmental engineering professors and a UD engineering alumnus are teaming up to test a novel technology …

Getty Images Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham said on Thursday that Jets defensive coordinator Gregg Williams “likes to teach” his players to deliver “cheap shots and dirty hits” to opposing players and that Browns players who were on the team when Williams was running the defense in 2017 told him that Williams …

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The expansion of electrical grid connections has increased use of SF6 It’s the most powerful greenhouse gas known to humanity, and emissions have risen rapidly in recent years, the BBC has learned. Sulphur hexafluoride, or SF6, is widely used in the electrical industry to prevent short circuits and accidents. …

We often hear if we choose to exercise and eat properly, our pancreas will thank us by functioning better and reduce our chances of developing Type 2 diabetes. Many of you watching your health will have heard of a list of produce referred to as the "dirty dozen." What is this list and how do …