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July 14, 2020
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How upcoming missions to Mars will help predict its wild dust storms
Jul 14 2020 6:00 AM

Predicting the weather on Mars is essential for landing and keeping rovers - or astronauts - safe on the surface. The next Mars missions will give forecasts a boost.

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Remdesivir may work even better against COVID-19 than we thought
Jul 13 2020 5:28 PM

Gilead Sciences says remdesivir cuts the chances of dying from the coronavirus, and data show the drug can curb the virus's growth in cells and mice.

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This 1.4-million-year-old hand ax adds to Homo erectus' known toolkit
Jul 13 2020 3:00 PM

A newly described East African find, among the oldest bone tools found, shows the ancient hominids crafted a range of simple and more complex tools.

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A bacterial toxin enables the first mitochondrial gene editor
Jul 13 2020 9:00 AM

Researchers have engineered a protein from bacteria that kills other microbes to change DNA in a previously inaccessible part of the cell.

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The universe might have a fundamental clock that ticks very, very fast
Jul 13 2020 6:00 AM

A theoretical study could help physicists searching for a theory of quantum gravity.

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These cells slow an immune response. Derailing them could help fight tumors
Jul 10 2020 8:00 AM

Immune therapies don't work for a lot of cancer patients. Some researchers are enhancing these treatments with drugs that stymie suppressor cells.

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A COVID-19 vaccine may come soon. Will the blistering pace backfire?
Jul 10 2020 6:00 AM

Speed is essential, but not at the expense of safety and efficacy, experts warn. Sacrificing either could damage public trust.

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Boosting a liver protein may mimic the brain benefits of exercise
Jul 09 2020 2:00 PM

Finding that liver-made proteins influence the brain may advance the quest for an "exercise pill" that can deliver the benefits of physical activity.

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There's little evidence showing which police reforms work
Jul 09 2020 8:00 AM

When stories of police violence against civilians capture public attention, reforms follow despite a dearth of hard data quantifying their impact.

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Physicists have 'braided' strange quasiparticles called anyons
Jul 09 2020 6:00 AM

All known particles fall into two classes. Physicists just found new evidence of a third class in 2-D materials.

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Calculating a dog's age in human years is harder than you think
Jul 08 2020 1:14 PM

People generally convert a dog's age to human years by multiplying its age by seven. But a new study shows the math is way more complex.

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South Americans may have traveled to Polynesia 800 years ago
Jul 08 2020 11:00 AM

DNA analyses suggest that Indigenous people from South America had a role in the early peopling of Polynesia.

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This is the most comprehensive X-ray map of the sky ever made
Jul 08 2020 6:00 AM

A new X-ray map of the entire sky, using data from the eROSITA telescope's first full scan, looks deeper into space than any other of its kind.

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What you need to know about the airborne transmission of COVID-19
Jul 07 2020 11:53 AM

More than 200 experts have implored the World Health Organization to acknowledge that the coronavirus can spread through the air.

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This is the first known particle with four of the same kind of quark
Jul 07 2020 10:57 AM

A weird four-quark particle could be a unique testing ground for the strong force that governs how quarks stick together.

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All kinds of outbreaks, from COVID-19 to violence, share the same principles
Jul 07 2020 8:00 AM

Adam Kucharski talks about his new book 'The Rules of Contagion,' a timely read during the coronavirus pandemic.

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