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October 17, 2020
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Oct. 16, 2020 — A pioneering technique which captures precisely how mountains bend to the will of raindrops has helped solve a long-standing …
Oct. 14, 2020 — Researchers have unraveled potential mechanisms behind the healing power of extracellular vesicles and demonstrated their capacity to not only revive cells after a heart …
Oct. 14, 2020 — Researchers have proposed a novel method for finding dark matter, the cosmos’ mystery material that has eluded detection …
Oct. 14, 2020 — While the ongoing coronavirus pandemic continues to threaten millions of lives around the world, the first half of 2020 saw …
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Oct. 16, 2020 — Thin tissue grafts and flexible electronics have a host of applications for wound healing, regenerative medicine and …
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Oct. 6, 2020 — Being previously infected with a coronaviruses that cause the ‘common cold’ may decrease the severity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infections, according to …
Oct. 6, 2020 — This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is being awarded to Roger Penrose ‘for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity’ and …
Oct. 5, 2020 — The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is being awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of Hepatitis C …
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 …
Oct. 1, 2020 — When a star unleashes as much energy in a matter of days as our Sun does in several billion years, you know it’s not going to remain visible for long. Like intergalactic paparazzi, NASA’s …
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 time such a close grouping has been seen so soon …
Sep. 30, 2020 — Genetic variants that leave their carrier more susceptible to severe COVID-19 are inherited from Neanderthals, a new study …
Sep. 30, 2020 — A new study provides substantial evidence that the first fossil feather ever to be discovered does belong to the iconic bird-like dinosaur, Archaeopteryx. This debunks a recent theory that the fossil …
Sep. 29, 2020 — SPARC is planned to be the first experimental device ever to achieve a ‘burning plasma’ — a self-sustaining fusion reaction in which different isotopes of the element hydrogen fuse …
Sep. 29, 2020 — A new study provides evidence that the seasonal colds you’ve had in the past could protect you from COVID-19. The study also suggests that immunity to COVID-19 is likely to last a long time — …
Sep. 28, 2020 — Modern humans arrived in westernmost Europe 41,000 to 38,000 years ago, about 5,000 years earlier than previously known, according to an international team of researchers that discovered stone tools …
Sep. 28, 2020 — The same team who re-engineered the plastic-eating enzyme PETase have now created an enzyme ‘cocktail’ which can digest plastic up to six times …
Sep. 28, 2020 — Experts have examined the evidence that prehistoric flying reptiles called pterosaurs had feathers and believe they were, in fact, …
Sep. 24, 2020 — Two new studies offer an explanation for why COVID-19 cases can be so variable. A subset of patients has mutations in key immunity genes; other patients have auto-antibodies that target the same …
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 …
Sep. 14, 2020 — A new study of an ancient period that is considered the closest natural analog to the era of modern human carbon emissions has found that massive volcanism sent great waves of carbon into the oceans …
Sep. 14, 2020 — Astronomers have discovered a rare molecule — phosphine — in the clouds of Venus. On Earth, this gas is only made industrially or by microbes that thrive in oxygen-free environments. Astronomers …
Sep. 10, 2020 — Recent observations have found that something may be missing from the theories of how dark matter behaves. This missing ingredient may explain why researchers have uncovered an unexpected discrepancy …
Sep. 10, 2020 — Scientists have compiled a continuous, high-fidelity record of variations in Earth’s climate extending 66 million years into the past. The record reveals four distinctive climate states, which …
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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