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When to Watch NASA's OSIRIS-REX Mission to Bennu Asteroid

The spacecraft will attempt to suck up rocks and dirt from the asteroid, which could unlock secrets of the solar system and could aid humanity's ability to divert one that might slam into Earth.

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New York Times Science

When to Watch NASA's OSIRIS-REX Mission to Bennu Asteroid

Science Daily

COVID-19: Distancing and masks -- good but not enough

Decades-old data is being used to describe the propagation of tiny droplets. Now a fluid dynamics team has developed new models: Masks and distancing are good, but not enough. Even with a mask, infectious droplets can be transmitted over several meters and remain in the air longer than previously thought. ...

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Science Daily

COVID-19: Distancing and masks -- good but not enough

Science Daily

Ultraviolet shines light on origins of the solar system

In the search to discover the origins of our solar system, an international team including planetary scientists has compared the composition of the sun to the composition of the most ancient materials that formed in our solar system: refractory inclusions in unmetamorphosed meteorites.

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Science Daily

Ultraviolet shines light on origins of the solar system

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Evidence of broadside collision with dwarf galaxy discovered in Milky Way

Astrophysicists have discovered a series of telltale shell-like formations of stars in the vicinity of the Virgo constellation, evidence of a radial merger between a dwarf galaxy and the Milky Way, and the first such 'shell structures' to be found in the Milky Way.

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Evidence of broadside collision with dwarf galaxy discovered in Milky Way

Science Daily

Depths of the Weddell Sea are warming five times faster than elsewhere

Over the past three decades, the depths of the Antarctic Weddell Sea have warmed five times faster than the rest of the ocean at depths exceeding 2,000 meters.

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Depths of the Weddell Sea are warming five times faster than elsewhere

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Plants communicate at a molecular level

Biologists have discovered how tomato plants identify Cuscuta as a parasite. The plant has a protein in its cell walls that is identified as 'foreign' by a receptor in the tomato.

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Plants communicate at a molecular level

Singularity HUB

Can We Trust AI Doctors? Google Health and Academics Battle It Out

Machine learning is taking medical diagnosis by storm. From eye disease, breast and other cancers, to more amorphous neurological disorders, AI is routinely matching physician performance, if not beating them outright. Yet how much can we take those results at face value? When it comes to life and death ...

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Can We Trust AI Doctors? Google Health and Academics Battle It Out

Science - The Verge

The next generation of power plants will be virtual

Increasing numbers of homes outfitted with solar panels and batteries have the potential to help power entire regions with renewable energy. Working together, homes with solar setups are turning neighborhoods into virtual power plants that can feed power back to the grid and prevent blackouts. ...

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Science - The Verge

The next generation of power plants will be virtual

Science Daily

Focal epilepsy often overlooked

Having subtler symptoms, a form of epilepsy that affects only one part of the brain often goes undiagnosed long enough to cause unexpected seizures that contribute to car crashes, a new study finds.

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Focal epilepsy often overlooked

New York Times Science

Orionids Meteor Shower 2020: How to Watch

Meteor showers can light up night skies from dusk to dawn, and if you're lucky you might be able to catch a glimpse.

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New York Times Science

Orionids Meteor Shower 2020: How to Watch

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Nasa's Osiris-Rex probe aims for daring 'high five' with asteroid Bennu

Osiris-Rex will make the briefest of contacts with Asteroid Bennu to try to pick up rock samples.

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Nasa's Osiris-Rex probe aims for daring 'high five' with asteroid Bennu

WIRED Science

Can Placebos Work"Even When Patients Know They're Fake"

Researchers showed that a saline spray 'treatment? reduced people's emotional distress, even though the study subjects knew the spray wouldn't do anything.

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Can Placebos Work"Even When Patients Know They're Fake"

WIRED Science

It's Time to Talk About Covid-19 and Surfaces Again

In the early days, we furiously scrubbed, afraid we could get sick from the virus lingering on objects and surfaces. What do we know now?

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It's Time to Talk About Covid-19 and Surfaces Again

Yahoo Science

Orionid meteor shower to bring "prolonged explosions of light"

Nasa says fast meteors can also become fireballs as Earth passes through tail of Hayley's comet

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Orionid meteor shower to bring "prolonged explosions of light"

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All-female scientific coalition calls for protection of Antarctic Peninsula

Climate change and human activity are harming Antarctica and threatening wildlife from humpback whales to microscopic algae, more than 280 scientists and conservation experts say in urging protections for the icy region. The coalition - all women - called for creating a new marine protection area around ...

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All-female scientific coalition calls for protection of Antarctic Peninsula

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Millennials get little satisfaction from democracy - Cambridge study

Young people are less satisfied with democracy and more disillusioned than at any other time in the past century, especially in Europe, North America, Africa and Australia, a study by the University of Cambridge has found. Millennials, or those born between 1981 and 1996, are more disillusioned than ...

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Millennials get little satisfaction from democracy - Cambridge study

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After a lemur was stolen from the San Francisco Zoo, a 5-year-old boy helped zookeepers track it down

James Trinh spotted Maki the lemur outside his preschool in Daly City. He and his family now have lifetime memberships to the San Francisco Zoo.

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After a lemur was stolen from the San Francisco Zoo, a 5-year-old boy helped zookeepers track it down

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Space-station crew members just found an elusive air leak by watching tea leaves float in microgravity

The cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin released some tea leaves to float inside the station, then saw them cluster around a "scratch" in the wall.

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Space-station crew members just found an elusive air leak by watching tea leaves float in microgravity

New York Times Science

How Many Plants Have We Wiped Out? Here Are 5 Extinction Stories

Botanists have laid out evidence that dozens of North American trees, herbs, plants and shrubs have gone extinct since European settlers arrived.

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New York Times Science

How Many Plants Have We Wiped Out? Here Are 5 Extinction Stories

Science - The Verge

A NASA spacecraft is poised to snag the largest sample of rocks from an asteroid ever

An artistic rendering of OSIRIS-REx about to collect a sample from an asteroid named Bennu. | Image: NASA OSIRIS-REx is about to perform its signature feat Tomorrow, a US spacecraft more than 200 million miles from Earth will sneak up to an asteroid larger than the Empire State Building and ...

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Science - The Verge

A NASA spacecraft is poised to snag the largest sample of rocks from an asteroid ever

New York Times Science

Slow Lorises Bite With Flesh-Rotting Venom

Slow lorises are one of the world's only venomous mammals. Even rarer, they use their venom on one another.

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New York Times Science

Slow Lorises Bite With Flesh-Rotting Venom

WIRED Science

Babies May Be Drinking Millions of Microplastic Particles a Day

Scientists discover that baby bottles shed up to 16 million bits of plastic per liter of fluid. What that means for infants? health, no one can yet say.

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Babies May Be Drinking Millions of Microplastic Particles a Day

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Scientists Just Achieved Room Temperature Superconductivity for the First Time

Superconductivity could be the key to groundbreaking new technologies in energy, computing, and transportation, but so far it only occurs in materials chilled close to absolute zero. Now researchers have created the first ever room-temperature superconductor. As a current passes through a conductor it ...

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Scientists Just Achieved Room Temperature Superconductivity for the First Time

Science - The Verge

The ambitious effort to piece together America's fragmented health data

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The infrastructure could help fight the next pandemic From the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, epidemiologist Melissa Haendel knew that the United States was going to have a data problem. There didn't seem to be a national strategy to control the ...

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Science - The Verge

The ambitious effort to piece together America's fragmented health data

WIRED Science

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Is About to Touch an Asteroid

After years of studying Bennu, the spacecraft will make its first attempt at a sample collection on Tuesday.

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WIRED Science

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Is About to Touch an Asteroid

WIRED Science

The New Science of Wildfire Prediction

On this week's Get WIRED podcast, writer Dan Duane dives into the inevitability of fires in the west and how better models would help combat them.

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WIRED Science

The New Science of Wildfire Prediction

New York Times Science

Why a Perfect Spiral Football Pass Doesn't Break the Laws of Physics

These physicists were never amazing football players, but they've helped explain some of the magic when a quarterback goes deep.

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New York Times Science

Why a Perfect Spiral Football Pass Doesn't Break the Laws of Physics

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When Did We Become Fully Human? What Fossils and DNA Tell Us About the Evolution of Modern Intelligence

When did something like us first appear on the planet" It turns out there's remarkably little agreement on this question. Fossils and DNA suggest people looking like us, anatomically modern Homo sapiens, evolved around 300,000 years ago. Surprisingly, archaeology'tools, artifacts, cave art'suggest that ...

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When Did We Become Fully Human? What Fossils and DNA Tell Us About the Evolution of Modern Intelligence