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"You do what you have to do to survive," says Diane Evans, who is fighting pandemic loneliness with technology. Evans lives in San Francisco and has Zoom calls regularly with her daughter in Chicago.

There's No Stopping These Seniors; Even A Pandemic Can't Bring Them Down

Older people are more vulnerable to severe COVID-19. But recent research reveals older populations are less consumed by pandemic depression than those that are younger.

"Yesterday, in my view, was one of the darkest days in the history of our nation," President-elect Joe Biden said Thursday.

Biden Says Capitol Attack Was 'Culmination' Of Trump's Assaults On Democracy

The president-elect made the remarks before introducing his choice for U.S. attorney general, Judge Merrick Garland.

Sophie Avouris, 102, recently recovered from the coronavirus. She was a baby when the 1918 influenza pandemic spread across Europe. She lived through the Great Depression and World War II before emigrating from Greece to the U.S. in the 1950s.

102-Year-Old New York Woman Recovers From Coronavirus

When Sophie Avouris of New York came down with COVID-19, her family did not expect her to recover. Avouris' doctor is not sure how she beat the illness.

Movement artist Desiree Cuizon in her dance film work "Ilaw Suga Light," which was released as part of Disco Riot's "Move American" voting education project.

Dance Is A Reflection Of Power: Short Dance Films Mobilize The Body And The Vote

San Diego-based Disco Riot's short dance film project, "Move American," will screen this Saturday at Art Produce.

A U.S. Navy unmanned submarine is lowered into the ocean during the search for a USMC Amphibious Assault Vehicle that sank during a training exercise off the Southern California coast killing 9 Marines and sailors, August 4, 2020.

Remains Of Seven Marines And Sailor To Be Transferred To Dover Air Force Base

Military officials Saturday were preparing to transfer the remains of seven U.S. Marines and a Navy sailor to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware over the next few days to be prepared for burial.

On the left is a computer model picture of a coronavirus spike protein without a sugar shield on it. On the right is a computer model picture of the spike protein with a sugar shield on it. The models demonstrate how the infection mechanism of the coronavirus is highly protected by these sugars, in the digital image above, June 25, 2020.

Coronavirus Is Covered In Sugar Shield, UCSD Scientists Figured Out What It Looks Like

The virus is covered in sticky spike proteins that help it infect human cells. But those spikes are also covered in sugar, which makes it hard for the body to detect it.

Students in Alice Henshaw's Wilderness Medical Associates CPR training course can practice on a Womanikin, designed to help trainees understand that compressions should be performed the same way on women's bodies as men's.

Meet The Womanikin, The Breasted Vest Working To Close The CPR Gender Gap

Studies show women are less likely to receive CPR in public than men. A manikin sleeve with silicone breasts might be part of the solution.

Protesters march on Wednesday against the Sunday police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis., over the weekend.

Peaceful Protests In Kenosha, Wis., As Demonstrators Remember Shooting Victims

The shootings of the three protesters appeared to change the tenor of demonstrations on Wednesday night. The protests had turned violent a night earlier when a gunman killed two people.

For eight years, a box of Twinkies sat in Colin Purrington's basement until last week when he finally opened them. Varying levels of mold had developed on the snack cakes, and he eventually sent them to two West Virginia University scientists to further study the kind of fungus growing on them.

A Disturbing Twinkie That Has, So Far, Defied Science

A Twinkie stored in a basement for eight years has been transformed by fungi, giving scientists something unusual to ponder and probe.

"In Their Own Words" highlights the Tuskegee Airmen through interviews of the surviving service men. The documentary screens as part of this year's GI Film Festival's Virtual Showcase.

GI Film Festival Goes Online Thursday, Friday

'In Their Own Words' highlights Tuskegee Airmen

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