All posts tagged "Featured"
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453PhysicsA black hole circling a wormhole would emit weird gravitational waves
Gravitational wave detectors have already spotted mysterious black holes. But something even stranger might be next: wormholes. A black hole spiraling into...
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1.1KSpaceScientists Detect Giant ‘Megaripple’ Structures Moving Across Mars
For the first time, scientists have observed that ‘megaripples’ on Mars – huge sand waves seen on the Martian surface – are...
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437Life ScienceMiocene Fossil from Africa Provides New Evidence for Origin of American Crocodiles
The skull and associated lower jaw of an adult Crocodylus checchiai were collected in 1938 at the paleontological site of As Sahabi...
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599HealthCOVID-19 causes smell loss: Olfactory support cells, not neurons, are vulnerable to novel coronavirus infection
Temporary loss of smell, or anosmia, is the main neurological symptom and one of the earliest and most commonly reported indicators of...
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498PhysicsJust Three Orbiting Black Holes Can Break Time-Reversal Symmetry
Most of the laws of physics don’t care which direction time is travelling. Forwards, backwards… either way, the laws work exactly the...
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515TechnologyData Are Finally In: Electric Cars Really Do Produce Less CO2 Pollution
Electric cars absolutely do produce less CO2 than gas guzzlers, a new study has confirmed – countering claims that carbon emissions from...
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543EnvironmentA Glacier in Antarctica Has Retreated With Astonishing Speed, Threatening Collapse
The ice sheet that sits atop Earth’s deepest land canyon stands on shaky ground. A detailed mapping of Denman Glacier in East...
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475HealthCoronaviruses Similar to The COVID-19 One Have Just Been Found in Pangolins
A search for the ‘missing link’ in the chain of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 has uncovered two close cousins of the new...
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676SpaceAnalysis Has Failed to Find a Dark Matter ‘Glow’ in The Milky Way’s Halo
Once again, a search for signs of dark matter outside its gravitational effect has turned up zilch – but this time it’s...
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557TechnologyScientists Have Built The First-Ever Robots Constructed Entirely Out of Living Cells
In another lifetime, if they had been allowed to follow their natural development, the stem cells taken from embryonic frogs would have...
