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LIGO and Virgo's gravitational wave tally more than quadrupled in six months

Oct 28 2020 8:00 PM

Scientists report 39 sets of spacetime ripples from just half a year of data.

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Doubts over a 'possible sign of life' on Venus show how science works

Oct 28 2020 11:20 AM

Detecting phosphine in Venus' atmosphere made headlines, but reanalyses and new searches call into question the original discovery of the molecule.

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Galileo's famous gravity experiment holds up, even with individual atoms

Oct 28 2020 6:00 AM

When dropped, two types of atoms accelerate at the same rate despite their differences, much like objects in Galileo's leaning Tower of Pisa experiment.

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Mummified llamas yield new insights into Inca ritual sacrifices

Oct 27 2020 8:00 AM

Bound and decorated llamas, found at an Inca site in southern Peru, may have been buried alive as part of events in annexed territories.

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A photon's journey through a hydrogen molecule is the shortest event ever timed

Oct 27 2020 6:00 AM

The shortest duration ever measured is 247 zeptoseconds, or trillionths of a billionth of a second.

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How malaria parasites hide from the human immune system

Oct 26 2020 12:00 PM

By turning genes on or off, the parasite keeps blood levels low but persistent, so infection doesn't set off alarm bells for the immune system.

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Water exists on sunny parts of the moon, scientists confirm
Oct 26 2020 12:00 PM

New observations of the moon, made by a telescope flying onboard a Boeing 747-SP jet, have confirmed the presence of water on sunlit areas of the moon.

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The longest trail of fossilized human footprints hints at a risky Ice Age trek
Oct 26 2020 6:00 AM

Researchers have discovered the world's longest trail of fossilized human footprints at White Sands National Park, New Mexico.

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Why bat scientists are socially distancing from their subjects
Oct 23 2020 8:00 AM

Scientists are calling for a "hands-off" approach to research to decrease the chances of spreading the coronavirus to bats in North America.

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The arthritis drug tocilizumab doesn't appear to help fight COVID-19
Oct 23 2020 6:00 AM

The best available evidence so far hasn't found that the anti-inflammatory drug benefited patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

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Bat-winged dinosaurs were clumsy fliers
Oct 22 2020 12:02 PM

The two known species of bat-winged dinosaurs were a dead end when it comes to the evolution of bird flight, a new study finds.

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Homo erectus, not humans, may have invented the barbed bone point
Oct 22 2020 7:52 AM

Carved artifacts excavated from Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge suggest now-extinct hominids made barbed bone points long before humans did, researchers say.

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How environmental changes may have helped make ancient humans more adaptable
Oct 21 2020 3:42 PM

An East African sediment core unveils ecological changes underlying a key Stone Age transition.

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx survived its risky mission to grab a piece of an asteroid
Oct 21 2020 11:26 AM

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft just tried to grab a piece of asteroid Bennu. If successful, the spacecraft will return the sample to Earth in 2023.

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The diabolical ironclad beetle can survive getting run over by a car. Here���s how
Oct 21 2020 11:00 AM

The diabolical ironclad beetle is an incredibly tough little creature. A peek inside its exoskeleton reveals what makes it virtually uncrushable.

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Naked mole-rats invade neighboring colonies and steal babies
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