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Infinite Visions Were Hiding in the First Black Hole Image’s Rings
Dennis Overbye//30 views/2 comments
Out There Scientists proposed a technique that would allow us to see more of the unseeable. A year ago a team of radio astronomers startled the world with the f...
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Business as Usual Is On Hold—Even at the EPA
Kate Cox, Ars Technica//34 views
To revisit this article, select My Account, then View saved stories. 2020 has a new motto: "Canceled due to the coronavirus." Businesses, schools, sports, tra...
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The Pandemic Has Led to a Huge, Global Drop in Air Pollution
Jonathan Watts and Niko Kommenda//29 views
To revisit this article, select My Account, then View saved stories. This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collabora...
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A new COVID-19 test can return results in 5 minutes
Nicole Wetsman//40 views/1 comments
A new COVID-19 test from the medical device company Abbott can return positive results in five minutes — and it can be run in a doctor’s office. The test was a...
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OneWeb files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Kim Lyons//25 views/1 comments
Space exploration firm OneWeb has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, GeekWire reports, leaving uncertainty about the 74 satellites it has in orbit and ...
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Uranus Ejected a Giant Plasma Bubble During Voyager 2’s Visit
Robin George Andrews//32 views
Trilobites The planet is shedding its atmosphere into the void, a signal that was recorded but overlooked in 1986 when the robotic spacecraft flew past. Uranus ...
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What happens when extreme heat collides with a pandemic?
Justine Calma//29 views
The COVID-19 pandemic is on the verge of colliding with another public health threat: extreme heat, which kills more people in the US each year than any other w...
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Med students are graduating early to join the fight against COVID-19
Nicole Wetsman//27 views
In a normal year, fourth-year medical students across the United States would have some downtime in April. They would have already found out where they’ll be do...
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Nursing home residents tested positive for the coronavirus before showing symptoms
Nicole Wetsman//32 views/2 comments
Only around half of the residents of one Washington nursing home overwhelmed by COVID-19 had symptoms when they tested positive for the coronavirus, according t...
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative commits $25 million to a fund researching COVID-19 treatments
Jay Peters//34 views
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropic arm, has committed $25 million to a research fund designed to help identify a...
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SpaceX Competitor OneWeb Is Reportedly Bankrupt
Daniel Oberhaus//26 views
To revisit this article, select My Account, then View saved stories. There’s a new headstone in the satellite internet graveyard today. This one belongs to O...
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NASA tasks SpaceX with sending cargo and supplies to future lunar space station
Loren Grush//39 views/1 comments
Despite the worsening coronavirus pandemic in the US, NASA is still looking ahead to its long-term goal of sending humans back to the lunar surface and is now a...
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Significance of Pangolin Viruses in Human Pandemic Remains Murky
James Gorman//32 views
Scientists haven’t found evidence that the new coronavirus jumped from pangolins to people, but they do host very similar viruses Pangolins, once suspected as t...
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Neanderthals Feasted on Seafood, Seabirds, Perhaps Even Dolphins
Nicholas St. Fleur//35 views
trilobites Scientists say that a discovery in a seaside Portuguese cave further challenges popular images of Neanderthals as meat-eating brutes. Neanderthals ar...
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Fossils Show Raptors Prowled North America Late in Dinosaurs’ Era
Becky Ferreira//27 views/1 comments
Trilobites They were smaller than the creatures that savaged “Jurassic Park,” but may have had superior ability to stalk and take down prey. One day in 2008, a ...