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Fossil discoveries suggest the earliest dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs

Jun 24 2020 4:05 PM

Finding soft-shelled dinosaur eggs in the fossil record for the first time has scientists rethinking how dinosaur eggs evolved.

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Physicists spot a new class of neutrinos from the sun

Jun 24 2020 6:00 AM

Researchers with the Borexino experiment in Italy have detected neutrinos produced in the secondary fusion process taking place in the sun's core.

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LIGO and Virgo detected a collision between a black hole and a mystery object

Jun 23 2020 7:03 PM

The first evidence of an object more massive than any neutron star and more lightweight than any black hole has astronomers wondering what it is.

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A Siberian town hit 100 degrees, setting a new record for the Arctic Circle

Jun 23 2020 2:02 PM

Verkhoyansk's high temperature, which has yet to be confirmed, follows a six-month period of record heat in the region.

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Preventing dangerous blood clots from COVID-19 is proving tricky

Jun 23 2020 6:00 AM

Clinical trials of blood-clotting drugs have begun in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, as excessive clotting remains a complication of the disease.

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Bubble-blowing drones may one day aid artificial pollination

Jun 22 2020 10:15 AM

Drones are too clumsy to rub pollen on flowers and not damage them. But blowing pollen-laden bubbles may help the machines be better pollinators.

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To live up to the hype, quantum computers must repair their error problems
Jun 22 2020 6:00 AM

Before quantum computers can reach their potential, scientists will need to master quantum error correction.

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Machine learning helped demystify a California earthquake swarm
Jun 18 2020 2:00 PM

Computer algorithms helped scientists find that circulating groundwater probably triggered a four-year-long series of tiny quakes in Southern California.

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How to make a mouse smell a smell that doesn't actually exist
Jun 18 2020 2:00 PM

The ability to create a perception might lead to a deeper understanding of how the brain makes sense of the world.

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COVID-19 case clusters offer lessons and warnings for reopening
Jun 18 2020 9:00 AM

As restaurants, offices and other businesses open, trends in where and how COVID-19 transmission is happening could help guide re-entry strategies.

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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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