NASA Scientists Find Secret in Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data About the Ice Giant Uranus
The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, perhaps siphoned away by the planet’s magnetic field. Eight and…
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In a new study, researchers found that half of the patients they treated for mild COVID-19 infection still had coronavirus for up to eight days…
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Constantly being told to wash your hands? Us, too. So we’re diving into the chemistry behind why soap is so effective against viruses like the…
MIT Chemists Have Developed a Peptide That Could Block COVID-19
MIT chemists are testing a protein fragment that may inhibit coronaviruses’ ability to enter human lung cells. The research described in this article has been…
SpaceX Awarded Contract to Deliver Cargo to Lunar Gateway Orbital Outpost
NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, as the first U.S. commercial provider under the Gateway Logistics Services contract to deliver cargo, experiments and other…
Violent Neutron Star Collision Sends Gravitational Waves Shuddering Through the Fabric of Space and Time
A new collaborative study with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) reveals a possible collision of two neutron stars earlier in…
MIT Aims to Turn Wi-Fi Signals Into Usable Power With Energy-Harvesting Design
Device for harnessing terahertz radiation might enable self-powering implants, cellphones, other portable electronics. Any device that sends out a Wi-Fi signal also emits terahertz waves…
Hubble Hooks a Magnificent One-Arm Barred Spiral Galaxy
NGC 4618 was discovered on April 9, 1787, by the German-British astronomer William Herschel, who also discovered Uranus in 1781. Only a year before discovering…
Stanford: How Humanity Has ‘Engineered a World Ripe for Pandemics’
Emerging infectious diseases have become more likely – and more likely to be consequential – partly as a result of how people move around the…
MIT Will Post Free Plans Online for an Emergency Ventilator That Can Be Built for $100
Clinical and design considerations will be published online; goal is to support rapid scale-up of device production to alleviate hospital shortages. One of the most…
Satellite Captures Stunning Drop in Pollution Across Europe From COVID-19 Lockdown
New data, based on observations from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, are showing strong reductions in nitrogen dioxide concentrations over several major cities across Europe –…
COVID-19 Can Cause Cardiac Injury – Even in Patients Without Underlying Heart Conditions
COVID-19 can have fatal consequences for people with underlying cardiovascular disease and cause cardiac injury even in patients without underlying heart conditions, according to a…
How Long COVID-19 Remains Infectious on Cardboard, Metal & Plastic
Research suggests that people may acquire the coronavirus through the air and by touching contaminated surfaces. The virus that causes COVID-19 remains for several hours…
Quasar Tsunamis Discovered – Highest Energy Outflows Ever Witnessed in the Universe
Using the unique capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Virginia Tech’s Nahum Arav has discovered the most energetic outflows…
Pangolins, Not Snakes, May Be Missing Link in Coronavirus Jump From Bats to Humans
As scientists scramble to learn more about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, two recent studies of the virus’ genome reached controversial conclusions: namely, that snakes are intermediate…
Cave Excavation Shows Neanderthals Were Marine Pioneers – Ate Crab, Mussels, Seals & Dolphins
The journal Science has published a study led by the ICREA researcher João Zilhão, from the University of Barcelona, which presents the results of the…
Dark Matter Decay Ruled Out as Source of Mysterious Electromagnetic Signals Detected From Nearby Galaxies
Eighty-five percent of the universe is composed of dark matter, but we don’t know what, exactly, it is. A new study from the University of…