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- Chest CT Has High Sensitivity for Diagnosis of COVID-19, Scientists Say
- Super-Puff Exoplanets May Actually Have Huge Ring Systems
- Dietary Prebiotics Can Improve Sleep and Fight Stress: Study
- Fossil of New Eocene-Period Bird Species Unearthed in Utah
- New Candidate Particle for Dark Matter: D-Star Hexaquark
| Chest CT Has High Sensitivity for Diagnosis of COVID-19, Scientists Say
Posted: 04 Mar 2020 12:19 PM PST Chest CT, a routine imaging tool for pneumonia diagnosis, had higher sensitivity for diagnosis of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease as compared with initial reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) from swab samples in the epidemic area of China, according to a paper published in the journal Radiology. Since December 2019, a number of cases of ‘unknown […]
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| Super-Puff Exoplanets May Actually Have Huge Ring Systems
Posted: 04 Mar 2020 11:24 AM PST Super-puffs, an intriguing, growing class of exoplanets, are the objects with exceptionally large radii for their masses and thus correspondingly low densities. According to new research, some of these exoplanets may actually have rings; three super-puffs — Kepler-87c, Kepler-177c and HIP 41378f — are especially good candidates for rings. “We started thinking, what if these […]
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| Dietary Prebiotics Can Improve Sleep and Fight Stress: Study
Posted: 04 Mar 2020 08:13 AM PST Dietary prebiotics can improve sleep and boost stress resilience by influencing gut bacteria and metabolites (biologically active molecules) they produce, according to a new study in rats published in the journal Scientific Reports. Most people are familiar with probiotics, friendly bacteria present in fermented foods like yogurt and sauerkraut. More recently, scientists have taken an […]
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| Fossil of New Eocene-Period Bird Species Unearthed in Utah
Posted: 04 Mar 2020 07:23 AM PST A new species of extinct quail-like bird has been identified from a fossil found in eastern Utah. Dubbed Uintan paraortygid, the ancient bird lived some 44 million years ago during the Eocene period. It belongs to an extinct group called Paraortygidae, a relative of the living Galliformes – the group that includes the living chicken, […]
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| New Candidate Particle for Dark Matter: D-Star Hexaquark
Posted: 04 Mar 2020 05:04 AM PST Dark matter is the mysterious substance that makes up roughly a quarter of the Universe. There is strong indirect evidence for its existence from measurements of cosmic primordial radiation, anomalies in the radial dependence of galactic rotational curves and gravitational lensing. Despite its apparently pivotal role in the Universe the physical origin of dark matter […]
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