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- Single Dose of Nasal Vaccine Against COVID-19 Prevents Infection in Mice – Works Better Than Injection
- 1200+ Mile Trail of Smoke Stretches Across California in These NASA Terra Images of the Wildfires
- Astronomers Mystified by Eerie Phenomenon on Mars: Ultraviolet “Nightglow” Spreads Across the Planet’s Sky Every Night
- Beguiling Phytoplankton Bloom in the Baltic Sea Looks Incredible
- Stanford Scientists Slow Light Down and Steer It With Resonant Nanoantennas
- New 3D Imaging Technique to Visualize Lung Tissue Damage in Severe COVID-19
- NASA’s New $10 Billion Telescope to Study Quasars and Their Host Galaxies in Three Dimensions
- Furious Derecho Flattens Iowa Corn and Soybeans With Hurricane-Force Winds
- Photonic Multishells Made of Liquid Crystals Can Replace Color Shifting Ink to Prevent Counterfeiting
- Princeton Perovskite LED Breakthrough Enables Next-Generation Lighting and Displays
- Extreme Heat in Death Valley Monitored by ECOSTRESS on Space Station
- Leonardo da Vinci’s Biological Enigma: New Clues to a 500-Year Old Mystery About the Human Heart
- Defects Deliver the Best of Both Worlds: Highly Efficient Ultrahigh Energy Density Capacitor
- Researchers May Have Discovered the True Cause of Low Oxygen Levels in Severe Cases of COVID-19
- Large Hadron Collider Beauty Discovers First “Open-Charm” Tetraquark
| Single Dose of Nasal Vaccine Against COVID-19 Prevents Infection in Mice – Works Better Than Injection
Posted: 22 Aug 2020 09:53 AM PDT
Nasal delivery produces more widespread immune response than intramuscular injection. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a vaccine that… The post Single Dose of Nasal Vaccine Against COVID-19 Prevents Infection in Mice – Works Better Than Injection appeared first on SciTechDaily.        |
| 1200+ Mile Trail of Smoke Stretches Across California in These NASA Terra Images of the Wildfires
Posted: 22 Aug 2020 09:30 AM PDT
NASA’s Terra satellite was able to capture the huge swath of smoke that has been generated by the California wildfires and dispersed by the winds… The post 1200+ Mile Trail of Smoke Stretches Across California in These NASA Terra Images of the Wildfires appeared first on SciTechDaily.     |
| Astronomers Mystified by Eerie Phenomenon on Mars: Ultraviolet “Nightglow” Spreads Across the Planet’s Sky Every Night
Posted: 22 Aug 2020 07:47 AM PDT
Every night on Mars, when the sun sets and temperatures fall to minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit and below, an eerie phenomenon spreads across much of… The post Astronomers Mystified by Eerie Phenomenon on Mars: Ultraviolet “Nightglow” Spreads Across the Planet’s Sky Every Night appeared first on SciTechDaily.     |
| Beguiling Phytoplankton Bloom in the Baltic Sea Looks Incredible
Posted: 22 Aug 2020 07:01 AM PDT
Nearly every summer, colorful blooms of phytoplankton flourish in the Baltic Sea. And nearly every summer, satellite images detect art-like patterns as the phytoplankton trace… The post Beguiling Phytoplankton Bloom in the Baltic Sea Looks Incredible appeared first on SciTechDaily.     |
| Stanford Scientists Slow Light Down and Steer It With Resonant Nanoantennas
Posted: 22 Aug 2020 06:01 AM PDT
Researchers have fashioned ultrathin silicon nanoantennas that trap and redirect light, for applications in quantum computing, LIDAR and even the detection of viruses. Light is… The post Stanford Scientists Slow Light Down and Steer It With Resonant Nanoantennas appeared first on SciTechDaily.     |
| New 3D Imaging Technique to Visualize Lung Tissue Damage in Severe COVID-19
Posted: 22 Aug 2020 04:55 AM PDT
Researchers led by Göttingen University develop new three-dimensional imaging technique to visualize tissue damage in severe Covid-19. Physicists at the University of Göttingen, together with… The post New 3D Imaging Technique to Visualize Lung Tissue Damage in Severe COVID-19 appeared first on SciTechDaily.     |
| NASA’s New $10 Billion Telescope to Study Quasars and Their Host Galaxies in Three Dimensions
Posted: 22 Aug 2020 04:52 AM PDT
Supermassive black holes, which likely reside at the centers of virtually all galaxies, are unimaginably dense, compact regions of space from which nothing — not… The post NASA’s New $10 Billion Telescope to Study Quasars and Their Host Galaxies in Three Dimensions appeared first on SciTechDaily.     |
| Furious Derecho Flattens Iowa Corn and Soybeans With Hurricane-Force Winds
Posted: 22 Aug 2020 04:02 AM PDT
Despite facing a dry July, many farmers in Iowa were expecting a good harvest in the fall. Instead, many had their fields of corn and… The post Furious Derecho Flattens Iowa Corn and Soybeans With Hurricane-Force Winds appeared first on SciTechDaily.     |
| Photonic Multishells Made of Liquid Crystals Can Replace Color Shifting Ink to Prevent Counterfeiting
Posted: 22 Aug 2020 03:13 AM PDT
Formation of liquid crystals consisting of several layers that are the thickness of a hair strand. Functional particles created by phase separation between hydrophilic and… The post Photonic Multishells Made of Liquid Crystals Can Replace Color Shifting Ink to Prevent Counterfeiting appeared first on SciTechDaily.     |
| Princeton Perovskite LED Breakthrough Enables Next-Generation Lighting and Displays
Posted: 21 Aug 2020 05:12 PM PDT
Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are nearly ubiquitous in modern life, providing the brightness in phone displays, televisions, and lights. A new form of LEDs, made… The post Princeton Perovskite LED Breakthrough Enables Next-Generation Lighting and Displays appeared first on SciTechDaily.     |
| Extreme Heat in Death Valley Monitored by ECOSTRESS on Space Station
Posted: 21 Aug 2020 03:52 PM PDT
On August 16, 2020, temperatures in Southern California approached the highest levels ever reliably recorded on Earth. That day, NASA’s ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment… The post Extreme Heat in Death Valley Monitored by ECOSTRESS on Space Station appeared first on SciTechDaily.     |
| Leonardo da Vinci’s Biological Enigma: New Clues to a 500-Year Old Mystery About the Human Heart
Posted: 21 Aug 2020 02:41 PM PDT
Scientists show that muscular structures first described by Leonardo da Vinci are essential for heart function. Researchers used artificial intelligence and genetic analyses to examine… The post Leonardo da Vinci’s Biological Enigma: New Clues to a 500-Year Old Mystery About the Human Heart appeared first on SciTechDaily.     |
| Defects Deliver the Best of Both Worlds: Highly Efficient Ultrahigh Energy Density Capacitor
Posted: 21 Aug 2020 01:31 PM PDT
By introducing defects to a common material, Berkeley Lab researchers create a highly efficient capacitor with dramatically increased energy density. Capacitors that rapidly store and… The post Defects Deliver the Best of Both Worlds: Highly Efficient Ultrahigh Energy Density Capacitor appeared first on SciTechDaily.     |
| Researchers May Have Discovered the True Cause of Low Oxygen Levels in Severe Cases of COVID-19
Posted: 21 Aug 2020 12:11 PM PDT
A new pilot study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai suggests that COVID-19 is causing significant dilation of the blood vessels of… The post Researchers May Have Discovered the True Cause of Low Oxygen Levels in Severe Cases of COVID-19 appeared first on SciTechDaily.     |
| Large Hadron Collider Beauty Discovers First “Open-Charm” Tetraquark
Posted: 21 Aug 2020 10:50 AM PDT
The particle, which has been called X(2900), was detected by analyzing all the data LHCb has recorded so far from collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron… The post Large Hadron Collider Beauty Discovers First “Open-Charm” Tetraquark appeared first on SciTechDaily.     |
