NASA has issued another request to its 14 Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) partners to bid on flying a suite of payloads to the Moon….

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Team led by Houston Methodist addresses need for quick, easy tests to screen plasma donors. A new study released by Houston Methodist takes researchers a significant step…

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Researchers led by Takeo Yoshikawa at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have discovered a biomarker that can detect autism spectrum disorder (ASD)…

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Researchers detected an unexpected 50% increase in patients presenting with respiratory illnesses at UCLA Health facilities in the months before the pandemic. UCLA researchers and…

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On September 7, 2020, NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided two different views of how fires are affecting the U.S. A true-color image of the United…

The post NOAA-NASA Satellite Captures Fires, Smoke, Sulfur Dioxide, and Ash Across America appeared first on SciTechDaily.

      

A team* of scientists from ASU and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) led by Hao Yan, ASU’s Milton Glick Professor in the School of Molecular…

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To the surprise of many planetary scientists, the oxidized iron mineral hematite has been discovered at high latitudes on the Moon, according to a study…

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New research from an international team of evolutionary geneticists, bioinformaticians, and paleontologists suggests that dramatic environmental changes accompanying the shift or melting of continental glaciers…

The post Genetic Evidence From Fossilized Remains Show Climate Change Drove Mastodons Vast Distances Across North America appeared first on SciTechDaily.

      

The finding marks a new effort in conserving an ancient dog breed, with potential to inform human vocalization processes. In a study published in PNAS,…

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A team including researchers from the Institute for Astrophysics of the University of Cologne has for the first time directly observed the columns of matter…

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On September 6, NASA’s ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) imaged active fires across California, including the El Dorado fire near Yucaipa…

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Electrons are locally heated to extremely high energies within the Van Allen Radiation Belts, new study finds. The Earth’s magnetic field is trapping high energy…

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Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the RAS Institute for Theoretical and Applied Electromagnetics have discovered what makes vanadium dioxide films conduct…

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GREGOR, the largest solar telescope in Europe, which is operated by a German consortium and located on Teide Observatory, Spain, has obtained unprecedented images of…

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On Friday September 4, 2020 at about 6:44 PM PDT the Creek Fire began in the Big Creek drainage area between Shaver Lake, Big Creek…

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Plant and animal species across the world are steadily disappearing due to human activity. A major new IIASA-led study suggests that without ambitious, integrated action…

The post Bending the Curve of Biodiversity Loss: Ambitious Conservation and Restoration Efforts Required appeared first on SciTechDaily.

      

Expert Says COVID-19 Deaths Closely Match “Normal” Age-Related Risk Pattern Death from COVID-19 equal to 5 weeks extra risk for over 55s and just 2…

The post Expert Finds That Death From COVID-19 Equal to Just 2 Days Extra Risk for Schoolchildren appeared first on SciTechDaily.

      

FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science Visualization study illustrates why face shields alone don’t work. If the United States Centers for Disease Control and…

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Three proof-of-concept prototypes seek to make contactless ‘acoustic tweezer’ technology available to a wide array of laboratories. Mechanical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a…

The post “Acoustic Tweezers” – Human Hands Replaced by Sound Waves in Petri Dish Experiments appeared first on SciTechDaily.

      

UC Riverside-led study found self-interacting dark matter theory explains why two galaxies have less dark matter than others. A new theory about the nature of…

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