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Stonehenge enhanced sounds like voices or music for people inside the monument

Aug 31 2020 9:00 AM

Scientists created a scale model one-twelfth the size of the ancient stone circle to study its acoustics.

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New coronavirus tests promise to be faster, cheaper and easier

Aug 31 2020 6:00 AM

Researchers are developing a smorgasbord of tests to detect RNA and proteins from the virus that causes COVID-19.

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How four summer camps in Maine prevented COVID-19 outbreaks

Aug 28 2020 3:07 PM

More than 1,000 kids and staff members from all over the country attended the camps, but only three people ended up testing positive for the virus.

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Puberty can repair the brain's stress responses after hardship early in life

Aug 28 2020 8:00 AM

Puberty may erase the shadow of trauma for children who had a difficult start.

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What's behind August 2020���s extreme weather? Climate change and bad luck

Aug 27 2020 6:51 PM

On top of a pandemic, the United States is having an epic weather year - a combination of bad luck and a stage set by a warming climate.

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Earth's building blocks may have had far more water than previously thought

Aug 27 2020 2:00 PM

Space rocks and dust from the inner solar system could have delivered enough water to account for all the H2O in the planet's mantle.

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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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