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A Forest Submerged 60,000 Years Ago Could Save Your Life One Day
JoAnna Klein, Annie Flanagan//26 views/1 comments
The Great Read Before this underwater forest disappears, scientists recently raced to search for shipworms and other sea life that might conceal medicine of the...
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D.I.Y. Coronavirus Solutions Are Gaining Steam
Alexandra E. Petri//29 views
From Ireland to Seattle, makers and engineers are creating open-source versions of much-needed medical equipment. There are moments when Gui Cavalcanti feels li...
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Genetic analysis of the coronavirus gives scientists clues about how it’s spreading
Nicole Wetsman//42 views/1 comments
As the coronavirus spreads around the globe, it has mutated in tiny, subtle ways. Those mutations aren’t cause for concern, and so far, don’t appear to be makin...
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Trump rolls back Obama fuel economy rule, increasing emissions during a climate crisis
Sean O'Kane//34 views
Donald Trump has finally gotten one of the longstanding wishes of his presidency: the weakening of an Obama-era fuel economy standard that made new cars more fu...
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Today’s the last day to apply to be a NASA astronaut if you want to escape the planet
Loren Grush//36 views/2 comments
Today is the last day you can submit your application to become a NASA astronaut, in case you have an overwhelming urge to fling yourself off the planet for a w...
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Architects and engineers are 3D printing medical gear during pandemic
Isabel Ling//27 views
“We reached out to everyone we knew with 3D printers and we grabbed all the 3D printers we could [from campus]...” Petersen says over the phone, “It really took...
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Philip W. Anderson, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Is Dead at 96
Scott Veale//34 views/3 comments
His work at Princeton and Bell Labs deepened science’s understanding of magnetism, superconductivity and the structure of matter. Philip W. Anderson, an America...
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This Fireball Ignored the Solar System’s One-Way Signs
Joshua Sokol//38 views/1 comments
Trilobites A meteoroid that grazed the night sky over Australia in 2017 took a very unusual path away from Earth. It’s not unusual for meteors to illuminate nig...
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Go read about how the original Xbox creator baked ancient Egyptian-style bread with 4,000-year-old yeast
Chaim Gartenberg//37 views/1 comments
As more people are faced with endless hours at home due to self-quarantine and social distancing, there’s been a surge in home bread baking show-and-tell on the...
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Virgin Orbit plans to mass-produce new medical breathing device to help fight coronavirus pandemic
Loren Grush//33 views/1 comments
Richard Branson’s aerospace company Virgin Orbit, which is primarily focused on developing rockets to launch small satellites into space, is shifting gears duri...
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Everything you need to know about the USNS Comfort, the giant hospital ship in NYC
Andrew J. Hawkins//31 views
At 10AM ET on March 30th, the US Navy’s gigantic floating hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, arrived in New York City where it has been sent to help relieve the p...
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The Mathematics of Predicting the Course of the Coronavirus
Adam Rogers//39 views/2 comments
To revisit this article, select My Account, then View saved stories. In the past few days, New York City’s hospitals have become unrecognizable. Thousands of ...
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Charge a Car Battery in 5 Minutes? That’s the Plan
Daniel Oberhaus//40 views/1 comments
To revisit this article, select My Account, then View saved stories. Late last year, Formula E officials announced the specs for the third generation of all-e...
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Where Did Plants Come From? This Ancient Algae Offers Clues
Dana Najjar//38 views/2 comments
To revisit this article, select My Account, then View saved stories. Around 500 million years ago—when the Earth was already a ripe 4 billion years old—the fi...
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FDA approves Battelle’s process to decontaminate N95 face masks
Kim Lyons//34 views
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a process that would clean much-needed N95 protective face masks and allow them to be reused, the agency said in a...