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Here���s what we���ve learned in six months of COVID-19 - and what we still don���t know

Jun 30 2020 6:00 AM

Six months into the new coronavirus pandemic, researchers have raced to uncover crucial information about SARS-CoV-2. But much is still unknown.

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Here's how flying snakes stay aloft

Jun 29 2020 11:00 AM

High-speed cameras show that paradise tree snakes keep from tumbling as they glide through the sky by undulating their bodies.

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Fish eggs can hatch after being eaten and pooped out by ducks

Jun 29 2020 6:00 AM

In the lab, a few carp eggs survived and even hatched after being pooped out by ducks. The finding may help explain how fish reach isolated waterways.

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Monkeys may share a key grammar-related skill with humans

Jun 26 2020 2:00 PM

A contested study suggests the ability to embed sequences within other sequences, a skill called recursion and crucial to grammar, has ancient roots.

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Why scientists say wearing masks shouldn't be controversial

Jun 26 2020 11:24 AM

New data suggest that cloth masks work to reduce coronavirus cases, though less well than medical masks.

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50 years ago, scientists first investigated antibiotic resistance in livestock

Jun 26 2020 6:00 AM

In 1970, scientists began investigating the effects of feeding antibiotics to livestock. 50 years later, we know it can be harmful for humans.

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Strokes and mental state changes hint at how COVID-19 harms the brain
Jun 25 2020 6:30 PM

In a group of people severely ill from the coronavirus, strokes, psychosis, depression and other brain-related changes come as complications.

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The second-worst Ebola outbreak ever is officially over
Jun 25 2020 5:09 PM

As Congo grapples with COVID-19 and other disease outbreaks, the country's 10th battle against Ebola has ended.

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Millions of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. may have gone undiagnosed in March
Jun 25 2020 3:26 PM

Millions of people in the United States went to the doctor in March with influenza-like symptoms. Many may have had COVID-19, a study suggests.

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Dolphins can learn from peers how to use shells as tools
Jun 25 2020 1:58 PM

While most foraging skills are picked up from mom, some bottlenose dolphins seem to look to their peers to learn how to trap prey in shells.

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Two lightning megaflashes shattered distance and duration records
Jun 25 2020 1:09 PM

Satellite data show that the two extreme bolts, both appearing over South America, more than doubled the previous records.

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Colliding black holes may have created a surprising flare of light
Jun 25 2020 10:00 AM

A flare-up after a gravitational wave outburst may be the first sighting of light from colliding black holes.

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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
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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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