Covid-19 vaccines can protect pregnant women and newborns, according to a study.

The defense of the accused of the massacre in Colorado asks to evaluate “mental illness”.

Can octopuses dream?

This is what you need to know to start the day.

Truth first. 

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Nine key phrases from Biden's first press conference

For more than an hour, US President Joe Biden answered questions from journalists on various topics ranging from immigration, stimulus payments and school reopening to covid-19 vaccination.

This was the president's first official press conference since he took office.

What did Biden and the press delve the most into?

These are the 9 key phrases that the event left. 

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Covid-19 vaccines can protect pregnant women and newborns, study finds

Research published in the

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

found that the Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna covid-19 vaccines are effective in pregnant and lactating women, who can transmit protective antibodies to their newborns.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), pregnant people with COVID-19 are at increased risk of serious illness and adverse outcomes, such as preterm delivery.

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The US will enable military installations for immigrant minors

The Biden administration prepares two additional sites for the emergency admissions of unaccompanied immigrant minors.

Together, the centers will provide more than 5,000 beds to accommodate children crossing the US-Mexico border alone.

To that end, the Department of Health and Defense are partnering to use the property at Fort Bliss near El Paso, Texas, and Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio.

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Unemployment claims are the lowest in the pandemic, but ...

Applications for unemployment benefits in the United States fell to their lowest point in the pandemic in the past week.

It is the first time that the amount is less than 700,000 per week.

However, the number remains higher than at any other time during the Great Recession.

So there is still a job crisis in the US.

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Defense of the accused of the massacre in Colorado asks to evaluate "mental illness"

A judge ruled that Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, charged in the shooting that killed 10 people in a Boulder, Colorado supermarket, remains in prison.

During Alissa's first court appearance, one of her attorneys asked to delay the next hearing for a few weeks, as the defense needs to assess what the attorney called her client's mental illness.  

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What to do if you are already vaccinated, but your children are not

CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen explains what you can do if you've already received the COVID-19 vaccine but your children haven't got it yet.

Can octopuses dream?

Maybe.

But there is something they do while they sleep

Changes in color, behavior and movement are evidence of a sleep cycle in octopuses, scientists from Brazil say.

This artificial heart responds to the activity of the patient

To help people waiting for a transplant, the Carmat company developed a device that can totally replace a patient's heart until a donor is found.

A man undresses next to a volcano in full eruption

Adventure tour guide Sveinn Snorri Sighvatsson did a striptease during the eruption of the Geldingadalur volcano in Iceland.

And his act is already viral. 

A bottle of wine spent a year in space.

So you know now

When most of us need to look smart about wine, we just tilt the glass a little, inhale deeply, and murmur something about fruit.

But several connoisseurs of this drink are now the first in the world to taste a wine that spent a year in space. 

The number of the day

US $ 688,000

The auction price for a "self-portrait" of the robot Sophia, who "interpreted" the representation of her own face.

Quote of the day

"I do not believe that this particular case is another example of a culture of cancellation, but a legitimate damage that I committed."

Jay Leno apologizes for joking about Asians, via a statement. 

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And to finish…

Hear the sound of stars and galaxies that NASA created with telescope data

NASA published new audios of stars and galaxies that it obtained after a process of sonification of data obtained by various telescopes.

The agency said these tools allow humans to have an auditory sense of spatial images.