A report in the journal Current Biology on July 9 offers a detailed description of the first nearly complete skeleton of an extinct large dolphin, discovered in…

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Catch the comet in the morning sky until July 11, after which you can find it just after sunset until mid-August. A comet visiting from…

The post Comet NEOWISE Sizzles As It Slides by the Sun – A Treat for Observers on Earth and in Space appeared first on SciTechDaily.

      

2-Chlorobenzalmalononitrile, better known as CS gas, is one of the most common tear gases used in the United States today, but did you know it’s…

The post How Tear Gas Works and How It Affects Your Body [Video] appeared first on SciTechDaily.

      

Later this summer, NASA is launching the Mars Perseverance Rover to the Red Planet with the Mars 2020 Mission. The rover is loaded with equipment to search for signs…

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NASA has selected four U.S. small businesses to mature a range of technologies for sustainable exploration of the Moon under the Artemis program. Through Artemis,…

The post NASA Increases Investment in US Small Businesses for Artemis Lunar Technology appeared first on SciTechDaily.

      

Every summer in the Northern Hemisphere, electric blue streaks form high in the atmosphere. These seasonal clouds typically lurk about 80 kilometers (50 miles) overhead…

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New insight into the spin behavior in an exotic state of matter puts us closer to next-generation spintronic devices. Aside from the deep understanding of…

The post Observation of the Quantum Spin Liquid State in Novel Material Advances Spintronics appeared first on SciTechDaily.

      

After more than a year in a clay-rich region, Curiosity is making a mile-long journey around some deep sand so that it can explore higher…

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Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Ivannikov Institute for System Programming, and the Harvard Medical School-affiliated Schepens Eye Research Institute have developed…

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Caltech researchers use deep learning and supercomputing to identify Nyx, a product of a long-ago galaxy merger. Astronomers can go their whole career without finding…

The post Nyx: Stellar Stream of Stars Discovered in Milky Way That Originated in Another Galaxy appeared first on SciTechDaily.

      

Many animals remain motionless or play dead after being attacked by a predator in the hope that it will give up and move onto some…

The post How Long to Play Dead in Order to Stay Alive? The Answer Is “Highly Strategic” appeared first on SciTechDaily.

      

The meridional flow in the Sun’s convection zone forms one gigantic cell in each hemisphere. At a depth of 200 thousand kilometers (the bottom of…

The post Motions in the Sun, 125,000 Miles Deep, Reveal Inner Workings of Sunspot Cycle appeared first on SciTechDaily.

      

Four promising antiviral drug candidates identified and analyzed by a University of Arizona-University of South Florida team in the preclinical study. As the death toll…

The post Compounds Identified That Halt COVID-19 Virus Replication by Targeting Key Viral Enzyme appeared first on SciTechDaily.