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First Dinosaur Era Crab Discovered – Fully Preserved in 100-Million-Year-Old Amber

Fossils trapped in amber provide a unique snapshot of the anatomy, biology, and ecology of extinct organisms. The most common fossils found in amber, which... The post First Dinosaur Era Crab…
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2021-10-24 14:38

NASA Turns to the Cloud for Help With Deluge of Data From Next-Generation Earth Missions

As satellites collect larger and larger amounts of data, engineers and researchers are implementing solutions to manage these huge increases. The cutting-edge Earth science satellites... The post NASA Turns to the…
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2021-10-24 13:58

NASA Perseverance Rover: Threading a Needle on Mars

During the solar conjunction period, the project’s science and engineering teams have had time to digest the data from Perseverance collected since the rover landed... The post NASA Perseverance Rover: Threading…
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2021-10-24 13:17

New MIT Cancer Treatment Jump-Starts the Immune System

By combining chemotherapy, tumor injury, and immunotherapy, researchers show that the immune system can be re-engaged to destroy tumors in mice. Immunotherapy is a promising... The post New MIT Cancer Treatment…
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2021-10-24 12:37

New England Journal of Medicine Study: No Risk of Pregnancy Loss From COVID-19 Vaccination

A new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine has found no correlation between COVID-19 vaccinations and risk of first-trimester miscarriages, providing further... The post New England Journal of…
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2021-10-24 12:09

Mélange Melts: Icy “Glue” May Control Pace of Antarctic Ice-Shelf Breakup

As the ice-and-snow rubble known as mélange melts in Antarctica’s ice shelves, rifts can grow and icebergs break off even in the brutal cold of... The post Mélange Melts: Icy “Glue”…
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2021-10-24 11:24

New DNA Research Shows Humans Did Not Cause Woolly Mammoths To Go Extinct – Climate Change Did

New DNA research shows the world got too wet for the giant animals to survive. For five million years, woolly mammoths roamed the earth until... The post New DNA Research Shows…
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2021-10-24 05:35

When the Solar Wind Slams Into Earth’s Magnetosphere, a Surprising Stillness Ensues

Energy from the solar wind interacting with the magnetospheric ‘bubble’ around Earth creates waves of energy that appear to stand still. This new finding, from... The post When the Solar Wind…
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2021-10-24 01:03
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Skyrmions – Tiny Magnetic Whirlpools – Have a Lot in Common With High-Temperature Superconductors

Spawned by the spins of electrons in magnetic materials, these tiny whirlpools behave like independent particles and could be the future of computing. Experiments with... The post Skyrmions – Tiny Magnetic…
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2021-10-23 23:43

Rapid New Mechanism for Muscle Self-Repair Independent of Stem Cells

A new study led by Spanish researchers describes a new mechanism for muscle repair after physiological damage relying on the rearrangement of muscle fiber nuclei,... The post Rapid New Mechanism for…
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2021-10-23 22:31

A Vast “Magnetic Tunnel” May Surround Earth and Our Entire Solar System

A University of Toronto astronomer’s research suggests the solar system is surrounded by a magnetic tunnel that can be seen in radio waves. Jennifer West, a... The post A Vast “Magnetic Tunnel”…
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2021-10-23 21:11

Intuition Often Lets Us Down – How To Use Probability and Statistics To Find the Real Answers

Much of our thinking is flawed because it is based on faulty intuition, says Professor Leighton Vaughan Williams. But by using the framework and tools... The post Intuition Often Lets Us…
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2021-10-23 19:51

Giant “Quantum Twisters” May Form in Liquid Light – Remarkable Similarities With Black Holes

New mechanism found for generating giant vortices in quantum fluids of light. Anyone who has drained a bathtub or stirred cream into coffee has seen... The post Giant “Quantum Twisters” May…
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2021-10-23 18:40

MIT Engineers Devised a Way To Count Tumor Cells To Shed Light on How Cancer Spreads

MIT engineers devised a way to count elusive circulating tumor cells in mice, allowing them to study the dynamics of metastasis. As tumors grow within... The post MIT Engineers Devised a…
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2021-10-23 17:32

“Extreme” Drought Affecting Agricultural Lands in the Northern Great Plains

Warm and dry conditions continue to affect agricultural lands in the U.S. Northern Plains and the Canadian Prairies. Decades of drought across the U.S. Southwest has led... The post “Extreme” Drought Affecting Agricultural…
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2021-10-23 15:20

Spectacular Panoramic Martian Image: The Ridges of “South Séítah”

NASA’s Perseverance rover captures a geologic feature with details that offer clues to the area’s mysterious past. Ask any space explorer, and they’ll have a... The post Spectacular Panoramic Martian Image:…
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2021-10-23 14:40

NASA Issues Update on Lucy Spacecraft and Its Solar Array Problem

Lucy Spacecraft Healthy as NASA Continues Solar Array Assessments NASA’s Lucy spacecraft successfully transitioned to cruise mode on October 20, which is the standard configuration... The post NASA Issues Update on…
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2021-10-23 14:23

How COVID-19 Social Distancing Creates Pedestrian “Traffic Jams”

Applying a “one-size-fits-all” policy recommendation to a complicated public sphere. Along with the use of face masks, social distancing in public remains one of the... The post How COVID-19 Social Distancing…
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2021-10-23 13:56

Shape-Shifting Materials With Infinite Possibilities: Totimorphic Structural Materials Can Achieve Any Shape

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a shape-shifting material that can take and hold any... The post Shape-Shifting Materials With Infinite…
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2021-10-23 13:14

Stunning Satellite Images Show Thailand Swamped by Monsoon Flooding

Recent storms added to an already heavy monsoon season. Persistent rain in mid-October 2021 brought more flooding to central and northeastern Thailand, where rivers and... The post Stunning Satellite Images Show…
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2021-10-23 12:39

Astronomers Discover Infant Planet – One of the Youngest Exoplanets Ever Observed

One of the youngest planets ever found around a distant infant star has been discovered by an international team of scientists led by University of... The post Astronomers Discover Infant Planet…
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2021-10-23 11:58

AI That Can Learn Cause-and-Effect: These Neural Networks Know What They’re Doing

A certain type of artificial intelligence agent can learn the cause-and-effect basis of a navigation task during training. Neural networks can learn to solve all... The post AI That Can Learn…
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2021-10-23 06:57

Planetary Composition: The Planet Does Not Fall Far From the Star

A compositional link between planets and their respective host star has long been assumed in astronomy. For the first time now, a team of scientists,... The post Planetary Composition: The Planet…
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2021-10-23 03:23

Surfside Champlain Towers South Condo Collapse & the Science of Concrete [Video]

Concrete buildings don’t just collapse out of the blue. Even earthquakes aren’t supposed to bring them down. So why did the Champlain Towers South building... The post Surfside Champlain Towers South…
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2021-10-23 02:13

More Likely To Relapse: E-Cigarettes Don’t Help Smokers Stay off Cigarettes

Cigarette smokers who quit smoking but substitute e-cigarettes, or other tobacco product, are more likely to relapse. The United States Centers for Disease Control and... The post More Likely To Relapse:…
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2021-10-23 00:53
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New Fundamental Physics? Unexplainable Phenomena From Large Hadron Collider Experiment

Results announced by the LHCb experiment at CERN have revealed further hints for phenomena that cannot be explained by our current theory of fundamental physics.... The post New Fundamental Physics? Unexplainable…
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2021-10-22 23:33

NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover: Studying the Jezero Delta From a Distance

The Perseverance rover and science team took a well-earned rest during conjunction, but there was still exciting news to share! Last week, the first scientific... The post NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover:…
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2021-10-22 22:22

Research Reveals Specific Molecular Mechanism That Controls Transition From Acute to Chronic Pain

Previously unrecognized control point identified as target for drugs that block transition. A new study led by University of California, Irvine researchers is the first... The post Research Reveals Specific Molecular…
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2021-10-22 20:00

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