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October 13, 2020
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Oct. 1, 2020 — Astronomers have found six galaxies lying around a supermassive black hole when the Universe was less than a billion years old. This is the first …
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Oct. 7, 2020 — This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is being awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the development of the CRISPR/Cas9 method for …
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October 13, 2020
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Oct. 2, 2020 — Though researchers have long known that adults build unconscious biases over a lifetime of making choices between things that are essentially the same, a new study finding that even babies engage in …
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Using Robotic Assistance to Make Colonoscopy Kinder and Easier
Oct. 12, 2020 — Scientists have made a breakthrough in their work to develop semi-autonomous colonoscopy, using a robot to guide a medical device into the body. The milestone brings closer the prospect of an intelligent robotic system being able to guide instruments to precise locations in the body to take biopsies or allow internal tissues to be …
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October 13, 2020
Comet Found to Have Its Own Northern Lights
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Sep. 21, 2020 — Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has its own far-ultraviolet aurora, data reveal. It is the first time such electromagnetic emissions in the far-ultraviolet have been documented on a celestial object …
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Stacking and Twisting Graphene Unlocks a Rare Form of Magnetism
Oct. 12, 2020 — A team of researchers has discovered that a variety of exotic electronic states, including a rare form of magnetism, can arise in a three-layer graphene …
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October 13, 2020
Prehistoric Flying Reptiles Had No Feathers?
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Sep. 28, 2020 — Experts have examined the evidence that prehistoric flying reptiles called pterosaurs had feathers and believe they were, in fact, …
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Mosquitoes’ Taste for Blood Traced to Four Types of Neurons
Oct. 12, 2020 — The female mosquito has an amazing ability to detect blood using her syringe-like ‘tongue.’ Now scientists have identified the neurons that give her blood-seeking …
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October 13, 2020
How Coronavirus Took Hold in N. America, Europe
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Unconscious Learning Underlies Belief in God?
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Sep. 10, 2020 — Early interventions were effective at stamping out coronavirus infections before they spread, according to a new study. Combining virus genomics with epidemiologic simulations and travel records, the …
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Effects of Poverty on Childhood Development Seen in Children as Young as 5
Oct. 9, 2020 — Researchers have found that health inequities can be measured in children as young as 5 years old. The research contributes to a growing body of literature finding that children of color who are also poor face greater health inequities than their white …
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