Researchers Investigate Giant Holes in Greenland Ice Sheet
Researchers climbed into moulins, which drain meltwater from the ice sheet, to better understand how volume relates to ice movement. Holes that carry surface meltwater…
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COVID-19 Researchers Identify Features of a Virus Super-Spreader
Sneezes from people who have congested noses and a full set of teeth travel about 60% farther than from people who don’t, according to a…
Astronomers Discover Mysterious Blue Ring Nebula, See the Fate of Binary Stars
Scientists have discovered a rare object called the Blue Ring Nebula, a ring of hydrogen gas with a star at its center. The properties of…
Astronomers Discover New “Fossil Galaxy” Buried Deep Within the Hidden Depths of Our Own Milky Way
Scientists working with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys’ Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) have discovered a “fossil galaxy” hidden in the…
New Recycling Process Could Cut Down on Millions of Tons of Plastic Waste
Multilayer plastic materials are ubiquitous in food and medical supply packaging, particularly since layering polymers can give those films specific properties, like heat resistance or…
Scientists Defy Nature: Making Diamonds in Minutes at Room Temperature
An international team of scientists has defied nature to make diamonds in minutes in a laboratory at room temperature — a process that normally requires…
NASA Model Reveals How Much Pollution Levels Changed Due to COVID-19 Lockdowns
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, space- and ground-based observations have shown that Earth’s atmosphere has seen significant reductions in some air pollutants. However, scientists wanted…
Prehistoric Shark Hid Its Largest, Sharpest Teeth
Some, if not all, early sharks that lived 300 to 400 million years ago not only dropped their lower jaws downward but rotated them outwards…
COVID-19: Vibrations of Coronavirus Proteins May Play Role in Infectivity and Lethality
Study suggests mechanical properties of spike proteins can predict infectivity and lethality of different coronaviruses. When someone struggles to open a lock with a key…
New Proof That Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) Vaccine May Protect Against COVID-19
The measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine has been theorized to provide protection against COVID-19. In a new study published today (November 20, 2020) in mBio, an open-access…
20 Years of Observing Earth From the Space Station – An Extraordinary View From Outer Space
After 20 years of continuous human presence, the International Space Station (ISS) has provided 241 visitors with an extraordinary view of Earth from outer space…
SARS-CoV-2 Uses “Genetic Origami” to Infect and Replicate Inside Host Cells – Discovery Could Lead to New COVID-19 Treatments
Discovery of shape of the SARS-CoV-2 genome after infection could inform new COVID-19 treatments. Scientists at the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with Justus-Liebig University,…
Arecibo Observatory’s Massive 305-Meter Telescope Faces Demolition Due to Safety Concerns
Following a review of engineering assessments that found damage to the Arecibo Observatory cannot be stabilized without risk to construction workers and staff at the…
Specialized Scanning Reveals Brain Damage in COVID-19 Patients
Specialized scanning furthers understanding of the virus’s potential effects on the brain. One of the first spectroscopic imaging-based studies of neurological injury in COVID-19 patients…
New Analysis Shows Dinosaurs Might Have Continued to Dominate the Earth if Asteroid Hadn’t Hit
A new statistical analysis of dinosaur diversity shows they were not in decline at the time of their extinction by an asteroid hit 66 million…
Decades Old Mystery Solved: A “New Kind of Electrons”
Why do certain materials emit electrons with a very specific energy? This has been a mystery for decades — scientists at TU Wien have found…
Massive Explosions of Energy Far From Earth May Have Left Traces in Our Planet’s Biology and Geology
Massive explosions of energy happening thousands of light-years from Earth may have left traces in our planet’s biology and geology, according to new research by…
Are Cats Spreading COVID-19? Study Finds Domestic Cats Can Be Asymptomatic Carriers of SARS-CoV-2
Two recently published studies from Kansas State University researchers and collaborators have led to two important findings related to the COVID-19 pandemic: Domestic cats can…