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FDA approves Battelle's process to decontaminate N95 face masks but limits it to 10,000 per day

Photo by James Black/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration has approved the limited use of a process that would clean much-needed N95 protective face masks and allow them to be reused, the agency said in a release. Columbus-Ohio based Battelle uses a "vapor phase hydrogen ...

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FDA approves Battelle's process to decontaminate N95 face masks but limits it to 10,000 per day

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8 strains of the coronavirus are circling the globe. Here's what clues they're giving scientists.

Scientists sequenced the genomes of eight coronavirus strains circling the globe providing hints about the effectiveness of efforts to halt the virus.

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8 strains of the coronavirus are circling the globe. Here's what clues they're giving scientists.

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What Would Life on Mars Be Like? Millions of Us Are Getting a Taste

I live in California's Bay Area, so for the last week and a half I've joined around seven million people in a shelter-in-place mandate. While my family is adjusting to this new normal, I've been reminded of a previous time I made a massive adjustment: when I lived on Mars. Thanks to the Mars Society, ...

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What Would Life on Mars Be Like? Millions of Us Are Getting a Taste

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Rock found in Mississippi proves to be fossilized tooth from prehistoric "hell pig"

There were the size of a hippo and mean.

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Rock found in Mississippi proves to be fossilized tooth from prehistoric "hell pig"

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Infinite Visions Were Hiding in the First Black Hole Image's Rings

Scientists proposed a technique that would allow us to see more of the unseeable.

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Infinite Visions Were Hiding in the First Black Hole Image's Rings

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Heirloom plants: Saving the nation's seeds from extinction

The incredible history of the UK's heirloom plants and why they're set to make a comeback.

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Heirloom plants: Saving the nation's seeds from extinction

WIRED Science

Business as Usual Is On Hold?Even at the EPA

The Trump administration is adding environmental protection regulations to the list of temporary cancelations due to the pandemic.

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Business as Usual Is On Hold?Even at the EPA

Science - The Verge

A new COVID-19 test can return results in 5 minutes

Abbott's ID NOW system. | Abbott 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 approved for emergency use in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration last night. The ...

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A new COVID-19 test can return results in 5 minutes

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Space Photos of the Week: Rovers Taking Selfies?for Science

Instead of likes, these snapshots provide teams with vital information about how spacecraft are faring on interplanetary surfaces.

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Space Photos of the Week: Rovers Taking Selfies?for Science

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OneWeb files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Image: OneWeb Space exploration firm OneWeb has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, GeekWire reports, leaving uncertainty about the 74 satellites it has in orbit and its plans to provide high-speed internet from space. In a news release, OneWeb said it plans to use the bankruptcy proceedings ...

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OneWeb files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

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The Pandemic Has Led to a Huge, Global Drop in Air Pollution

Reductions in traffic and industry have lowered nitrogen dioxide levels?offering an accidental glimpse into what a low-carbon future might look like.

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The Pandemic Has Led to a Huge, Global Drop in Air Pollution

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An ER Doctor Describes What It's Like to Treat Covid-19

The novel coronavirus is hitting emergency rooms in the US?hard. Cedric Dark, a physician at the Baylor College of Medicine, recounts the struggle.

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An ER Doctor Describes What It's Like to Treat Covid-19

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SpaceX wins NASA contract to send cargo to lunar Gateway with new Dragon XL craft

NASA has tapped a type of SpaceX cargo craft that hasn't yet been built to deliver supplies to a moon-orbiting outpost that hasn't yet been launched. SpaceX's robotic Dragon XL, a cylindrical, supersized version of its workhorse Dragon spacecraft, will handle shipments to the Gateway space platform ...

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SpaceX wins NASA contract to send cargo to lunar Gateway with new Dragon XL craft

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SpaceX Competitor OneWeb Is Reportedly Bankrupt

The company planned to put 650 internet satellites into orbit. But it only managed to launch 74 before its coffers ran dry, according to a report out today.

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SpaceX Competitor OneWeb Is Reportedly Bankrupt

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Uranus Ejected a Giant Plasma Bubble During Voyager 2's Visit

The planet is shedding its atmosphere into the void, a signal that was recorded but overlooked in 1986 when the robotic spacecraft flew past.

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Uranus Ejected a Giant Plasma Bubble During Voyager 2's Visit

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A new way to study HIV's impact on the brain

Using a newly developed laboratory model of three types of brain cells, scientists reveal how HIV infection -- as well as the drugs that treat it -- can take a toll on the central nervous system.

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A new way to study HIV's impact on the brain

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What happens when extreme heat collides with a pandemic?

Photo by Avijit Ghosh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images 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 weather-related event. Public health officials usually recommend that people ...

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What happens when extreme heat collides with a pandemic?

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NASA tasks SpaceX with sending cargo and supplies to future lunar space station

An artistic rendering of SpaceX's proposed Dragon XL cargo spacecraft | Image: SpaceX 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 asking SpaceX to start doing cargo runs to the Moon ...

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NASA tasks SpaceX with sending cargo and supplies to future lunar space station

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Here's how hospitals are keeping up emergency services during COVID-19

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Virtually everyone is "COVID-possible" In the midst of the outbreak, people will still have heart attacks and strokes. Babies will still be born. Appendixes will still burst. And so hospitals are figuring out how to juggle the patients who require ordinary ...

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Here's how hospitals are keeping up emergency services during COVID-19

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Double-walled nanotubes have electro-optical advantages

Theorists find that flexoelectric effects in double-walled carbon nanotubes could be highly useful for photovoltaic applications.

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Double-walled nanotubes have electro-optical advantages

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Quantum copycat: Researchers find a new way in which bosons behave like fermions

When a one-dimensional gas of strongly interacting bosons expands, the velocity distribution of the bosons transforms into one that is identical to non-interacting fermions.

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Quantum copycat: Researchers find a new way in which bosons behave like fermions

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UK local authorities not ready for the number of deaths from Covid-19

Even if fatality rates are at the lower end of expectations -- one percent of virus victims -- it is highly likely that death and bereavement services will be overwhelmed.

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UK local authorities not ready for the number of deaths from Covid-19

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Copper boosts pig growth, and now we know why

Pigs have better feed conversion rates with copper in their diets, but until now, scientists didn't fully understand why. Existing research from the University of Illinois shows copper doesn't change fat and energy absorption from the diet. Instead, according to new research, the element seems to enhance ...

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Copper boosts pig growth, and now we know why

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Gene mutation enhances cognitive flexibility in mice

Researchers have discovered in mice what they believe is the first known genetic mutation to improve cognitive flexibility -- the ability to adapt to changing situations.

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Gene mutation enhances cognitive flexibility in mice

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The Race to Keep Health Care Workers Protected From Covid-19

As doctors and nurses address the pandemic, they are facing an unprecedented global crisis, a lack of resources, and a fight to save their own lives.

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The Race to Keep Health Care Workers Protected From Covid-19

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Apocalyptic Fiction Helps Us Deal With the Anxiety of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Masked people standing six feet apart. Empty shelves in the supermarket. No children in sight outside the school during recess. The social upheaval caused by COVID-19 evokes many popular dystopian or post-apocalyptic books and movies. Unsurprisingly, the COVID-19 crisis has sent many people rushing to ...

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Apocalyptic Fiction Helps Us Deal With the Anxiety of the Coronavirus Pandemic

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Plastic: How to predict threats to animals in oceans and rivers

Scientists find out more about the threats of plastic to thousands of fish, whales and other aquatic life.

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Plastic: How to predict threats to animals in oceans and rivers

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Climate change: 'Gob-smacking' vision for future UK transport

Public transport and active travel will be the "natural first choice", the Transport Secretary says.

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Climate change: 'Gob-smacking' vision for future UK transport