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11/03/2020

  
  
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COVID-19's death rate in the U.S. could spike as new cases soar

Nov 03 2020 6:00 AM

Effective treatments are one possible reason the mortality rate from COVID-19 fell over the summer. Rising cases could reverse the trend.

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How COVID-19 may trigger dangerous blood clots

Nov 02 2020 6:05 PM

Clots may stem from net-casting immune cells that, instead of fighting a coronavirus infection, capture red blood cells and platelets.

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Jupiter may host atmospheric 'sprites' or 'elves' never seen beyond Earth

Nov 02 2020 8:00 AM

For the first time, NASA's Juno spacecraft may have spied the bright, superfast light show on another world.

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'Deaths of despair' are rising. It's time to define despair

Nov 02 2020 6:00 AM

A sense of defeat, not mental ailments, may be derailing the lives of less-educated people in the United States.

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How frigid lizards falling from trees revealed the reptiles' growing cold tolerance

Oct 30 2020 11:00 AM

Some Florida lizards' ability to handle temperatures down to 5.5° C may provide clues to how they might deal with the extremes of climate change.

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How two immune system chemicals may trigger COVID-19's deadly cytokine storms

Oct 30 2020 10:44 AM

A study in mice hints at drugs that could be helpful in treating severe coronavirus infections.

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These human nerve cell tendrils turned to glass nearly 2,000 years ago
Oct 30 2020 6:00 AM

Part of a young man's brain was preserved in A.D. 79 by hot ash from Mount Vesuvius' eruption.

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The first Denisovan DNA outside Siberia unveils a long stint on the roof of the world
Oct 29 2020 2:03 PM

Genetic evidence puts Denisovans, humankind's now-extinct cousins, on the Tibetan Plateau from 100,000 to at least 60,000 years ago.

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Ogre-faced spiders catch insects out of the air using sound instead of sight
Oct 29 2020 11:00 AM

A new study finds that ogre-faced spiders can hear a surprisingly wide range of sounds.

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How octopuses 'taste' things by touching
Oct 29 2020 11:00 AM

Octopus arms are dotted with cells that can "taste" by touch, which might enable arms to explore the seafloor without input from the brain.

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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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