MRI Scans Link COVID-19 to Potentially Dangerous Eye Abnormalities
Researchers using MRI have found significant abnormalities in the eyes of some people with severe COVID-19, according to a study published in the journal Radiology….
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MIT Develops Machine-Learning Approach to Finding New Treatment Options for COVID-19
Researchers develop a system to identify drugs that might be repurposed to fight the coronavirus in elderly patients. When the Covid-19 pandemic struck in early…
Climate Change – Not Overhunting by Humans – Likely Drove the Extinction of North America’s Largest Animals
New research suggests that overhunting by humans was not responsible for the extinction of mammoths, ground sloths, and other North American megafauna. A new study…
A New Class of Superconductors: Commonly Mistaken Name Leads to Discovery
A new theory that could explain how unconventional superconductivity arises in a diverse set of compounds might never have happened if physicists Qimiao Si and…
Vaporized Crusts of Earth-Like Planets Discovered in Dying Stars
Remnants of planets with Earth-like crusts have been discovered in the atmospheres of four nearby white dwarf stars by University of Warwick astronomers, offering a…
Climate Shift May Have Helped Dinosaurs Make 6,500-Mile Trek From South America to Greenland
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COVID-19 Has Infected Pet Cats and Dogs – What About Wildlife?
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have found coronavirus infections in pet cats and dogs and in multiple zoo animals, including big cats…
Light and a Single Electron Used to Detect Quantum Information Stored in 100,000 Nuclear Quantum Bits
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Student Astronomer Uses Ingenious Method to Find Galactic Missing Matter
Distant galaxies used as ‘locator pins’ to detect ‘invisible’ gas cloud. Half of the universe’s matter is ‘missing,’ but PhD student Yuanming Wang has developed…
Remarkably Well-Preserved Fossils Helping to Solve Baffling Puzzle That Vexed Darwin
Remarkably well-preserved fossils are helping scientists unravel a mystery about the origins of early animals that puzzled Charles Darwin. Analysis of the 547 million-year-old remains…
New Physics Rules Tested by Using a Quantum Computer to Create a “Toy-Universe”
Simulation of non-Hermitian quantum mechanics using a quantum computer goes beyond centuries-old conventions. Aalto researchers have used an IBM quantum computer to explore an overlooked…
The Comet That Killed the Dinosaurs: New Theory on Origin of the Chicxulub Impactor
It was tens of miles wide and forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago. The Chicxulub impactor, as it’s…
Unexpected Life: Strange Creatures Accidentally Discovered Far Beneath Antarctica’s Ice Shelves
Far underneath the ice shelves of the Antarctic, there’s more life than expected, finds a recent study in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science. During an…
New Worlds in a River of Young Stars Discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
Using observations from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a trio of hot worlds larger than Earth orbiting…
DNA Energy Code: “Survival of the Fittest” Phenomenon Is Only Part of the Evolution Equation
Genetic code evolution and Darwin’s evolution theory should consider DNA an “energy code.” Darwin’s theory of evolution should be expanded to include consideration of a…
Tiny Crustacean Redefines Ultra-Fast Movement: Monster Claw Snaps Shut 10,000 Times Faster Than Blink of an Eye
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NIH Researchers: Humidity From Masks May Lessen Severity of COVID-19
NIH study compares how different face masks affect humidity inside the mask. Masks help protect the people wearing them from getting or spreading SARS-CoV-2, the…