New Research Highlights Risk of New COVID Mutations Emerging During Chronic Infection
SARS-CoV-2 mutations similar to those in the B1.1.7 UK variant could arise in cases of chronic infection, where treatment over an extended period can provide…
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Tricky Terrain Navigation: Helping to Assure a Safe Landing for the Mars 2020 Rover
How two new technologies will help Perseverance, NASA’s most sophisticated rover yet, touch down onto the surface of Mars this month. After a nearly seven-month…
Eating Grapes May Protect Your Skin From UV Damage
New study finds grapes increased resistance to sunburn and reduced markers of UV damage. A recent human study published in the Journal of the American…
Advanced Simulations Reveal How Air Conditioning Spreads COVID-19 Aerosols Through Restaurants
More preventive measures, such as shielding underneath tables and improving air conditioner filtration efficiency, could reduce exposure to COVID-19 within air-conditioned restaurants. The detailed physical…
COVID Detectives on the Hunt for Animal X
An Epidemiological Blueprint for Understanding the Dynamics of a Pandemic Scientific and public health experts have been raising the alarm for decades, imploring public officials…
Cancer Researchers Discover What’s Driving “Brain Fog” in People With COVID-19
A unique collaboration among experts from several areas within MSK leads to findings about how inflammation appears to be driving the neurologic effects seen in…
Computer Scientists Create Fake Videos That Fool State-of-the-Art Deepfake Detectors
Systems designed to detect deepfakes — videos that manipulate real-life footage via artificial intelligence — can be deceived, computer scientists showed for the first time…
Follow the Water: Where Future Astronauts Should Land on Mars
A new NASA paper provides the most detailed map to date of near-surface water ice on the Red Planet. So you want to build a…
Nanomaterials: The Invisible Killer Lurking in Our Consumer Products
Our consumer products, such as food, cosmetics, and clothes, might be filled with nanomaterials — unbeknownst to us. The use of nanomaterials remains unregulated and…
Study of Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Unveils the Cause of Its Pulsations – Not at All Close to Exploding
Recalibrated Betelgeuse’s mass, radius, and distance. Betelgeuse is normally one of the brightest, most recognizable stars of the winter sky, marking the left shoulder of…
Pangolin Coronavirus Could Jump to Humans – Similarities Found Between SARS-CoV-2 and a Pangolin Coronavirus
Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have found important structural similarities between SARS-CoV-2 and a pangolin coronavirus, suggesting that a pangolin coronavirus could infect humans. …
Intriguing Remains of a Rare Stellar Explosion Discovered in Milky Way Center
Scientists have discovered the first evidence for a rare type of stellar explosion, or supernova in the Milky Way. This intriguing object lies near the…
A New Kind of Magnetism Formed by “Magnetic Graphene” – Could Reveal Secrets of Superconductivity
Researchers have identified a new form of magnetism in so-called magnetic graphene, which could point the way toward understanding superconductivity in this unusual type of…
“Evolutionary Rosetta Stone” – New Insight Into the Biology of a Deadly Fungus
Bd’s actin structures likely play roles in causing skin disease threatening amphibians worldwide. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have gained new insight into…
New Research Shows Cannabis Reduces Blood Pressure in Older Adults With Hypertension
A new discovery by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and its affiliated Soroka University Medical Center shows that medical cannabis may reduce…
A Billion Years in 40 Seconds: Mesmerizing Video Reveals the Evolution Our Dynamic Planet
New research helps understand how plate tectonics powers life on Earth. Plate tectonics are responsible for the deep-carbon and deep-water cycles. Arrangement of continents has…
Experiments Probe Carbon’s Crystal Structure at Record Pressures – Five Times the Pressure in Earth’s Core
Carbon is one of the most ubiquitous elements in existence. As the fourth most abundant element in the universe, a building block for all known…
Comprehensive Genetic Map Reveals Circuitry of 30,000 Human Disease Regions
Analysis reveals genetic control elements that are linked to hundreds of human traits. Twenty years ago this month, the first draft of the human genome…