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Sunday, September 5, 2021

Coronavirus Epidemics first hit more than 21,000 years ago

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  Sarbecoviruses have crossed into humans twice in the last decade, leading to the deadly SARS-CoV-1 outbreak in 2002-04 and the current COV...
Friday, September 3, 2021

Birds and mammals evolve faster if their home is rising

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  Wild Kea, New Zealand  Credit: Pablo Heimplatz Researchers at the University of Cambridge have combined reconstructions of the Earth’s cha...

Warming Atlantic forces whales into new habitats, danger

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  Source: Pexels Warming oceans have driven the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale population from its traditional and protect...
Thursday, September 2, 2021

Discovery paves way for improved quantum devices

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  Schematic of a superconducting circuit [thin black lines] on a silicon chip [yellow base], being imaged using terahertz scanning near-fiel...

A Black Hole Triggers a Premature Supernova

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  Dillon Dong, with a 27-meter radio dish at Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory in the background. In 2017, a particularly luminou...

Z Turns Twenty-five Years Old

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  An open-shutter photo showing electrical energy coursing through the transmission line sections of Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine...

What's Up September 2021

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  Source/Credit: NASA/JPL
Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Physicists find ‘magnon’ origins in 2D magnet

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  Rice University physicists Pengcheng Dai (left) and Lebing Chen have discovered that unusual magnetic features they previously noticed in ...

Glacial Ice Cores Reveal 15,000 Year Old Microbes

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  Extensive glaciation at high altitudes in the Tibetan Plateau. Source: Reurinkjan Known as the world’s “Third Pole”, the Tibetan Plateau h...

Using Liquid Metal to Turn Motion into Electricity

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  Photo credit: Veenasri Vallem Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a soft and stretchable device that converts move...