Most Americans Say They’ll Continue Health Precautions After the COVID-19 Pandemic
While restrictions may lift, life will still look different on the other side of the pandemic. Many of us are waiting for the day when…
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Study Finds That Social Distancing Isn’t Just Good for the Community – It Lowers Your Personal Odds of Getting COVID-19
Considering the greater good by social distancing during a pandemic turns out to have an attractive personal benefit: A new study has found that staying…
Bioenergy Breakthrough: Cheaper Method Developed to Help Create Fuels From Plants
Chemists, engineers create a key component of bioenergy production in lab. Scientists have figured out a cheaper, more efficient way to conduct a chemical reaction…
Researchers Hot Stock Tip: Avoid This Type of Investment Fund
Specialized ETFs invest in trendy, overvalued areas, study finds. “Buy low and sell high” says the old adage about investing in the stock market. But…
The Universe Is Getting Hot, Hot, Hot – Temperature Has Increased 10-Fold Over the Last 10 Billion Years
The universe is getting hotter, a new study has found. The study, published in the Astrophysical Journal, probed the thermal history of the universe over the…
Boosting a Natural Cellular Process to Protect Lungs From Ventilator-Induced Injury
Research Suggests Boosting a Natural Cellular Process Could Reduce Damage An unfortunate truth about the use of mechanical ventilation to save the lives of patients…
Biology Textbooks Wrong? New Research Reveals the Secret Behind a Key Cellular Process
For the first time, researchers describe how Rho protein really stops gene expression. New research has identified and described a cellular process that, despite what…
Common Pain Reliever – Acetaminophen – Makes Risky Moves Seem Less Dangerous
In study, acetaminophen alters perceptions of risk. While acetaminophen is helping you deal with your headache, it may also be making you more willing to…
Rogue Planets That Float in Space Without Orbiting a Sun Could Outnumber the Stars
Upcoming NASA mission will search for planets in the Milky Way without their own sun. An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more…
Climate Scientists Sound the Alarm: Warming Greenland Ice Sheet Passes Point of No Return
Even if the climate cools, study finds, glaciers will continue to shrink. Nearly 40 years of satellite data from Greenland shows that glaciers on the…
Chinese and American Scientists Are Working Together More Than Ever to Study the COVID-19 Virus
American and Chinese Scientists Leading Efforts on COVID-19 Despite the political tensions between the United States and China, scientists in the two countries are working…
New Research Shows Candidates Who Use Humor on Twitter May Find the Joke Is on Them
Study finds funny stuff reduces credibility and support. Political candidates’ use of humor on social media could sometimes backfire on them with potential supporters, new…
Large-Scale Experiment Shows People Want to Help Each Other, Even When It Costs Them Something
People are more generous than not and try to do right by each other, no matter the motivation. People want to help each other, even…
The Math Behind COVID-19 Modeling
COVID-19 has brought calculus, statistics and probability theory into our daily lives. Some of us might have been happy to leave mathematics behind in high…
Tiny ‘Backpack’ Computers Developed to Track Wild Animals in Hard-to-Reach Habitats
Lightweight wireless network enables precise mapping of bats’ social networks. To truly understand an animal species is to observe its behavior and social networks in…
AI Detects Bomb Craters to Estimate Unexploded Bombs Left From Vietnam War
Machine Learning Detects Bomb Craters in Cambodia Researchers have used artificial intelligence to detect Vietnam War-era bomb craters in Cambodia from satellite images – with…
How Do Vampire Bat Strangers Make Friends? Scientists Find Out
It starts with a gradual buildup of trust, study finds. We humans can explain how our relationships with college roommates and co-workers have formed over…
Radar and Ice Could Help Detect Mysterious Subatomic Particles That Pass Right Through Matter
Scientists create new experiment to find neutrinos. One of the greatest mysteries in astrophysics these days is a tiny subatomic particle called a neutrino, so…
