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Good News From China on Newborns Infected With COVID-19
Researchers have identified a total of four cases of newborn babies with COVID-19 infection in China. In all cases, the babies experienced only mild symptoms…
Archaeologists Go on Egg Hunt to Crack 5,000-Year-Old Mystery
Ancient Microscopic Mineral Excavation Deepens Mystery of the Origins of Earth’s Magnetic Field
Experts Raise the Alarm on Endangered Great Apes and COVID-19
Revolutionary Light-Emitting Silicon – “Holy Grail” Breakthrough After 50 Years of Work
A Rapidly Changing Arctic: Significantly More Carbon & Nutrients to North Pole
Asian Hornets Are Invading Europe – Here’s What It’s Going to Cost
Quantum Entanglement of Independent Particles Without Any Contact – Ever
Powerful Relativistic Jet Blasts From Colliding Galaxies & Here’s the First-Ever Photo Proof
Surprising Secret to Making Stronger Concrete: Sewage
A by-product of steel making can be used to both treat wastewater and make stronger concrete. Researchers have shown how a by-product of steel making…
“Dancing Cat Fever” – New Culprit Identified for Minamata Mercury Poisoning Tragedy
The 1950s and ‘60s poisoning event was long attributed to methylmercury, but studies at SLAC suggest a different compound was to blame. The findings could…
Climate Change Drove Settlers to South Pacific Islands 200 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
Research led by scientists at the University of Southampton has found settlers arrived in East Polynesia around 200 years earlier than previously thought. Colonization of…
Long-Standing Quantum Physics Prediction Proven: Bethe Strings Experimentally Observed
90 years ago, the physicist Hans Bethe postulated that unusual patterns, so-called Bethe strings, appear in certain magnetic solids. Now an international team has succeeded…
The Lord of the Rings
At first glance, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image looks to be a simple spiral galaxy, with two pinwheeling arms emerging from…
False Memories of Crime Appear Real to Others When Told
People are no better than chance at identifying when someone else is recounting a false or real memory of a crime, according to a new…
COVID-19 World Map: 1,279,722 Confirmed Cases; 205 Countries; 72,614 Deaths
WHO Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation Report 78 One new country/territory/area reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours: São Tomé and Príncipe. Today, April…
What is a Supermoon?
The Moon will be a Supermoon on Tuesday night, April 7, 2020, appearing opposite the Sun (in Earth-based longitude) at 10:35 PM EDT. The Moon…
Virus Spillover, Wildlife Extinction and the Environment – It’s All Interlinked
The same processes that threaten wildlife increase our risk of spillover. As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, a common question is, can infectious diseases be…
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