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June 18, 2020
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Black hole plasma jets are shaped like bell-bottoms
Jun 18 2020 6:00 AM

Jets of high-energy particles change from slightly curved sides to flared cones as they shoot away from galaxies, just like flare-legged pants.

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An unexpected result from a dark matter experiment may signal new particles
Jun 17 2020 11:38 AM

An excess of events spotted in the XENON1T experiment could be signs of solar axions or weird, new properties of neutrinos, but not dark matter itself.

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DNA from a 5,200-year-old Irish tomb hints at ancient royal incest
Jun 17 2020 11:00 AM

Ruling families in Ireland may have organized a big tomb project, and inbred, more than 5,000 years ago, a new study suggests.

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Measuring the neutron's lifetime from space could solve an enduring mystery
Jun 17 2020 6:00 AM

Measurements on Earth show that lone neutrons decay after about 15 minutes, and now scientists have measured that lifetime from space.

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The steroid dexamethasone is the first drug shown to reduce COVID-19 deaths
Jun 16 2020 6:59 PM

The drug might save one of every eight people on ventilators and one of 25 on oxygen.

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Flat spots on Saturn's moon Titan may be the floors of ancient lake beds
Jun 16 2020 11:20 AM

Bright radio signals from Titan indicate the presence of ancient lake beds in its tropics, a new analysis finds.

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Jun 16 2020 10:16 AM

Two studies report that people began sleeping more and more regularly after countries imposed stay-at-home orders to slow the coronavirus' spread.

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Barn owlets share food with their younger siblings in exchange for grooming
Jun 16 2020 6:00 AM

Scientists weren't sure why elder barn owlets would give away meals to their younger kin, a rare example of sibling cooperation in birds.

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The FDA has canceled emergency use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19
Jun 15 2020 5:31 PM

The malaria drug is unlikely to work as an antiviral and its risks don't outweigh benefits in use against the coronavirus, the agency rules.

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Smoke from Australian fires rose higher into the ozone layer than ever before
Jun 15 2020 8:00 AM

The catastrophic wildfires in Australia around New Year's generated a massive smoke plume that still hasn't dissipated in the stratosphere.

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Larvaceans��� underwater ���snot palaces��� boast elaborate plumbing
Jun 15 2020 6:00 AM

Mucus houses have valves and ducts galore that help giant larvaceans extract food from seawater.

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Real-life scientists inspire these comic book superheroes
Jun 14 2020 8:00 AM

Three scientists are publishing comics casting researchers as heroes, and hope the cartoon format and pared-down storyline can boost science literacy.

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How giving cash to poor families may also save trees in Indonesia
Jun 12 2020 2:18 PM

Indonesia's poverty reduction program also reduced deforestation by 30 percent, researchers say.

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Clues to the earliest known bow-and-arrow hunting outside Africa have been found
Jun 12 2020 2:00 PM

Possible arrowheads at a rainforest site in Sri Lanka date to 48,000 years ago.

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Fossil footprints show some crocodile ancestors walked on two legs
Jun 12 2020 8:00 AM

The 106-million-year-old tracks suggest that other puzzling nearby fossils were also likely made by a bipedal croc ancestor, not a giant pterosaur.

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The way the coronavirus messes with smell hints at how it affects the brain
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