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July 07, 2020
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How making a COVID-19 vaccine confronts thorny ethical issues
Jul 07 2020 6:00 AM

COVID-19 vaccines will face plenty of ethical questions. Concerns arise long before anything is loaded into a syringe.

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Self-destructive civilizations may doom our search for alien intelligence
Jul 06 2020 9:00 AM

A lack of signals from space may also be bad news for Earthlings.

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Some exoplanets may be covered in weird water that's between liquid and gas
Jul 06 2020 6:00 AM

"Supercritical" water, a corrosive substance used to break down toxic waste on Earth, coats some small worlds around other stars, simulations suggest.

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Underwater caves once hosted the Americas' oldest known ochre mines
Jul 03 2020 2:00 PM

Now-submerged chambers in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula contain ancient evidence of extensive red ochre removal as early as 12,000 years ago.

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Bizarre caecilians may be the only amphibians with venomous bites
Jul 03 2020 11:00 AM

Microscope and chemical analyses suggest that, like snakes, caecilians have glands near their teeth that secrete venom.

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4 reasons not to worry about that 'new' swine flu in the news
Jul 02 2020 5:20 PM

Researchers identified a pig influenza virus that shares features with one that sparked the 2009 pandemic - that doesn't mean another one is imminent.

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A sparrow song remix took over North America with astonishing speed
Jul 02 2020 11:01 AM

A variation on the white-throated sparrow's song spread 3,300 kilometers in just a few decades.

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Earth's annual e-waste could grow to 75 million metric tons by 2030
Jul 02 2020 10:17 AM

Unwanted electronic waste is piling up rapidly around the globe, while collection and recycling efforts are failing to keep pace, a new report shows.

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Why COVID-19 is both startlingly unique and painfully familiar
Jul 02 2020 6:00 AM

As doctors and patients learn more about the wide range of COVID-19 symptoms, the coronavirus is proving both novel and recognizable.

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A newfound exoplanet may be the exposed core of a gas giant
Jul 01 2020 11:00 AM

A planet about 734 light-years away could be a former gas giant that lost its atmosphere or a failed giant that never finished growing.

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4 ways to put the 100-degree Arctic heat record in context
Jul 01 2020 8:00 AM

June's record heat in Siberia is part of a much bigger picture of dramatic climate change in the Arctic.

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The U.S. largely wasted time bought by COVID-19 lockdowns. Now what?
Jul 01 2020 6:00 AM

As states reopen, most don't have adequate systems in place to test, trace and isolate new COVID-19 cases, setting the stage for future outbreaks.

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An asteroid's moon got a name so NASA can bump it off its course
Jun 30 2020 8:00 AM

A tiny moon orbiting an asteroid finally got a name because NASA plans to crash a spacecraft into it.

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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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