New Study Outlines a Roadmap for Effective Treatment of COVID-19
Study outlines key immunological factors underlying COVID-19 disease progression and proposes a range of drugs that may be repurposed to treat the disease. Due to…
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Wearing Face Masks at Home 79% Effective at Curbing COVID-19 Transmission to Family Members Before Symptoms Emerge
Wearing Face Masks at Home Might Help Ward Off COVID-19 Spread Among Family Members Wearing face masks at home might help ward off the spread…
Active Galactic Nuclei Core Ignition Triggered by Galaxy Mergers
Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) play a major role in galaxy evolution. Astronomers from the University of Groningen and Netherlands Institute for Space Research have now…
Meet SHERLOC – The Detective Aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover
An instrument called SHERLOC will, with the help of its partner WATSON, hunt for signs of ancient life by detecting organic molecules and minerals. Mars…
Jupiter’s Plant-Sized Moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – Are Fascinating Worlds of Their Own
Four hundred years ago, the astronomer Galileo Galilei announced his discovery of four moons orbiting around the planet Jupiter, each seen as a distinct white…
Cosmic Search Continues for Supermassive Black Hole Collisions
A new study led by postdoctoral researcher Xingjiang Zhu from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), at Monash University, developed a…
Third European Service Module for Artemis Mission to Land Astronauts on the Moon
It’s official: when astronauts land on the Moon in 2024 they will get there with help from the European Service Module. The European Space Agency…
Mass Extinction Event Caused by Erosion of the Ozone Layer
Researchers at the University of Southampton have shown that an extinction event 360 million years ago, that killed much of the Earth’s plant and freshwater…
“Silent” COVID-19 Infection May Be Far More Common Than Thought – High Rate of False Negative Test Results
More than 8 out of 10 cruise ship passengers testing positive for infection had no symptoms. The prevalence of ‘silent’ symptomless COVID-19 infection may be…
New Clues to Deep Earthquakes Could Help Unravel One of the Most Mysterious Geophysical Processes on Earth
Earthquakes that occur more than 300 kilometers below the Earth are poorly understood. UC Davis geophysicist Magali Billen modeled stresses in a sinking tectonic plate…
Jurassic Dinosaurs Turned to Scavenging – Maybe Even Cannibalism – In Stressed Ecosystems
In Colorado quarry: Oddly abundant scavenging and first evidence of Allosaurus cannibals. Among dinosaurs of ancient Colorado, scavenging and possibly cannibalism were responses to a…
Vaccines Find More Success in Development Than Any Other Kind of Drug, but …
How often do vaccine trials hit paydirt? Study: Vaccines find more success in development than any other kind of drug, but have been relatively neglected…
Cosmic Fast Radio Bursts Detect Universe’s “Missing Matter” – Solving a Decades-Old Mystery
Astronomers have used mysterious fast radio bursts to solve a decades-old mystery of ‘missing matter,’ long predicted to exist in the Universe but never detected—until…
Strange New Class of Cosmic Explosions Discovered by Astronomers
Blasts differ from ‘ordinary’ supernovae, gamma-ray bursts. Astronomers have found two objects that, added to a strange object discovered in 2018, constitute a new class…
Study Confirms Cats Can Become Infected With COVID-19
In a study published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists in the U.S. and Japan report that in the laboratory, cats…
Scientists Find Unique Structure – That Repeats Itself Throughout Nature – In Unexpected Corner of the Universe
Novel Insight Reveals Topological Tangle in Unexpected Corner of the Universe Scientists find a unique knotted structure — one that repeats itself throughout nature —…
Evidence Shows Cloth Masks May Help Against COVID-19 – Especially Those With Several Layers of Cotton Cloth
The evidence shows that cloth masks, particularly those with several layers of cotton cloth, block droplet, and aerosol contamination of the environment, which may reduce…
NASA’s Mars Orbiter Maps Electric Currents Around the Red Planet – Fundamental to Atmospheric Loss
Five years after NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric…