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Blood donations show that the United States is still nowhere near herd immunity

Sep 17 2020 6:00 AM

Testing donated blood for antibodies to the coronavirus highlights that the vast majority of the United States remains susceptible to infection.

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'The Origins of You' explores how kids develop into their adult selves

Sep 16 2020 11:00 AM

A new book describes the interplay of nature and nurture as children, at least in Western societies, grow up.

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Ancient Lystrosaurus tusks may show the oldest signs of a hibernation-like state

Sep 16 2020 8:00 AM

Oddball ancestors of mammals called Lystrosaurus might have slowed way down during polar winters.

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Neutrinos could reveal how fast radio bursts are launched

Sep 16 2020 6:00 AM

Highly magnetized stellar corpses called magnetars may be the source of two different cosmic enigmas: fast radio bursts and high-energy neutrinos.

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A Game Boy look-alike runs on solar panels and button smashes

Sep 15 2020 2:27 PM

A new prototype console that looks and feels like the original Game Boy harnesses user-generated energy to run without batteries.

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How do you clean up clingy space dust? Zap it with an electron beam

Sep 15 2020 8:00 AM

An electron beam is the newest addition to a suite of technologies for cleaning sticky and damaging lunar dust off surfaces.

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Lung cell images show how intense a coronavirus infection can be
Sep 15 2020 6:00 AM

Microscopic views reveal virus particles coating the hairlike cilia of an airway cell from the lungs.

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Phosphine gas found in Venus' atmosphere may be 'a possible sign of life'
Sep 14 2020 11:00 AM

Astronomers have detected a stinky, toxic gas in Venus' clouds that could be a sign of life, or some strange unknown chemistry.

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Earth's rarest diamonds form from primordial carbon in the mantle
Sep 14 2020 8:00 AM

Chemical analyses of the rarest diamonds suggest the planet's carbon cycle may not go as deep as scientists thought.

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Treatments that target the coronavirus in the nose might help prevent COVID-19
Sep 14 2020 6:00 AM

Scientists are developing and testing ways to prevent the virus from settling in prime nasal real estate.

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College athletes show signs of possible heart injury after COVID-19
Sep 11 2020 4:42 PM

Four of 26 college athletes, who had mild or asymptomatic COVID-19, may have had myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle.

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This moth may outsmart smog by learning to like pollution-altered aromas
Sep 11 2020 6:00 AM

In the lab, scientists taught tobacco hawkmoths that a scent changed by ozone is from a favorite flower.

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Dark matter clumps in galaxy clusters bend light surprisingly well
Sep 10 2020 2:00 PM

Cosmologists have found one more way to be confused by dark matter.

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How does a crop's environment shape a food's smell and taste?
Sep 10 2020 9:00 AM

Scientific explorations of terroir - the soil, climate and orientation in which crops grow - hint at influences on flavors and aromas.

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Drones find signs of a Native American 'Great Settlement' beneath a Kansas pasture
Sep 10 2020 6:00 AM

An earthwork buried under a cattle ranch may be part of one of the largest Native American settlements ever established north of Mexico.

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Here���s what pausing the AstraZeneca-Oxford coronavirus vaccine trial really means
Sep 09 2020 7:04 PM

A coronavirus vaccine trial was paused after a volunteer had a possible adverse reaction. Such routine measures help ensure new vaccines are safe.

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