How Effective Are Cloth Masks Against Coronavirus? [Video]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control is recommending that the general public wear cloth face masks to help decrease everyone’s chances of getting COVID-19. So…
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control is recommending that the general public wear cloth face masks to help decrease everyone’s chances of getting COVID-19. So…
‘Artificial leaf’ concept inspires Rice University research into solar-powered fuel production. Rice University researchers have created an efficient, low-cost device that splits water to produce…
Mercury is a desert world which scientists until recently considered quite uninteresting. NASA’s Mariner and MESSENGER missions, however, revealed that there is much more to…
A reasonably small 4-8 m (~13-26 foot) asteroid recently flew by Earth, passing close to satellites orbiting in the geostationary ring at a distance of…
Researchers from the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, and Maastricht University in the Netherlands have found that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2,…
Mines across the United States churn out all kinds of minerals, from potash to iron to gold. But the ground around a mine in southern…
Initial step towards developing fully human antibody therapeutics and diagnostics for COVID-19. Researchers at Utrecht University, Erasmus Medical Center, and Harbour BioMed (HBM) today reported…
Mars had a global magnetic field much earlier—and much later—in the planet’s history than scientists have previously known. A planet’s global magnetic field arises from…
Statistics is a useful tool for understanding the patterns in the world around us. But our intuition often lets us down when it comes to…
Creating and controlling on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars is a key goal of scientists around the world. Production of…
Honey bees that guard hive entrances are twice as likely to allow in trespassers from other hives if the intruders are infected with the Israeli…
LED instead of laser or electron beam. Selective LED-based melting (SLEDM) — i.e. the targeted melting of metal powder using high-power LED light sources —…
If you see people walking down a street and coming to a junction, it’s difficult to predict which direction they might take. But, if you…
Ice loss from Antarctica and Greenland account for roughly a half-inch of sea level rise between 2003 and 2019. Using the most advanced Earth-observing laser…
Scientists have been able to observe the universe and determine that about 80% of its mass appears to be “dark matter,” which exerts a gravitational…
An analysis of 369 solar-like stars shows that solar brightness variations are extremely weak. The extent to which solar activity (and thus the number of…
An international research project has revealed the highest levels of microplastic ever recorded on the seafloor, with up to 1.9 million pieces in a thin…
A new study from University of Michigan climate researchers concludes that some of the latest-generation climate models may be overly sensitive to carbon dioxide increases…