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Improved three-week weather forecasts could save lives from disaster

Aug 27 2020 6:00 AM

Meteorologists are pushing to make forecasts good enough to fill the gap between short-term and seasonal.

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Mandatory mail-in voting hurts neither Democratic nor Republican candidates

Aug 26 2020 4:16 PM

A new study suggests that requiring people to cast mail-in ballots actually leads to a slightly increased turnout for both political parties.

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In a first, a person's immune system fought HIV - and won

Aug 26 2020 2:21 PM

Some rare people may purge most HIV from their bodies, leaving only broken copies of the virus or copies locked in molecular prisons, from which there is no escape.

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Carbon dioxide from Earth's mantle may trigger some Italian earthquakes

Aug 26 2020 2:00 PM

In the central Apennines of Italy, spikes in natural carbon dioxide emissions line up with the biggest earthquakes.

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If bacteria band together, they can survive for years in space

Aug 26 2020 9:42 AM

Tiny clumps of bacteria can survive at least three years in outer space, raising the prospect of interplanetary travel by microbial life.

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COVID-19 plasma treatments may be safe, but we don���t know if they work

Aug 25 2020 1:36 PM

Blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors can be used to treat hospitalized patients, FDA says, but researchers question how well it works.

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What we can learn from how a doctor's race can affect Black newborns' survival
Aug 25 2020 9:47 AM

When Black physicians attended Black newborns after a hospital birth, it reduced the mortality gap between Black and white babies.

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Female hyenas kill off cubs in their own clans
Aug 25 2020 7:00 AM

Along with starvation and mauling by lions, infanticide leads as a cause of hyena cub death. Such killings may serve to enforce the social order.

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A man in Hong Kong is the first confirmed case of coronavirus reinfection
Aug 24 2020 7:55 PM

During a 33-year-old man's first round with the virus, he had symptoms, but not the second time - a hint his immune system protected him from disease.

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A measurement of positronium's energy levels confounds scientists
Aug 24 2020 8:00 AM

A gap in the energy levels of positronium seems to be substantially larger than predicted, and physicists don't know why.

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New treatments aim to treat COVID-19 early, before it gets serious
Aug 24 2020 6:00 AM

Some new drugs that may stop the coronavirus from getting into cells, or from reproducing itself, may treat the illness as soon as it's diagnosed.

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Genetically modified mosquitoes have been OK'd for a first U.S. test flight
Aug 22 2020 11:15 AM

After a decade of heated debate, free-flying swarms aimed at shrinking dengue-carrying mosquito populations gets a nod for 2021 in the Florida Keys.

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Check out the first-ever map of the solar corona's magnetic field
Aug 21 2020 8:00 AM

Solar physicists watched waves in the sun's corona to map the whole corona's magnetic field. Future observers could use the same technique to predict solar eruptions.

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The board game Endangered shows just how hard conservation can be
Aug 21 2020 6:00 AM

The new board game Endangered shows how working together is the only way for conservation to succeed.

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X-rays reveal what ancient animal mummies keep under wraps
Aug 20 2020 11:00 AM

A new method of 3-D scanning mummified animals reveals life and death details for a snake, a bird and a cat.

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This ichthyosaur died after devouring a creature nearly as long as itself
Aug 20 2020 11:00 AM

Ichthyosaurs, marine reptiles generally thought to munch on soft prey like cephalopods, may have chowed down on fellow big marine reptiles, too.

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