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Physicists hunt for room-temperature superconductors that could revolutionize...
Wind turbines and solar panels in Southern California.4kodiak/E+ via Getty ImagesWaste heat is all around you. On a small scale, if your phone or laptop feels warm, that’s because some of the energy...
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Genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in Florida and Texas...
In 2018 scientists of the Miami-Dade County Mosquito Control tested a new way to suppress mosquito populations carrying the Zika virus. RHONA WISE/AFP via Getty ImagesThis summer, for the first time,...
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Scientists tap the world's most powerful computers in the race to understand...
It takes a tremendous amount of computing power to simulate all the components and behaviors of viruses and cells.Thomas Splettstoesser scistyle.com, CC BY-NDIn “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”...
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COVID-19, smell and taste – how is COVID-19 different from other respiratory...
A health worker carries out an olfactory test to monitor smell loss to a resident 65 km from Buenos Aires city, on May 24, 2020, amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.ALEJANDRO PAGNI/AFP via Getty...
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Compare the flu pandemic of 1918 and COVID-19 with caution – the past is not...
A pandemic from a century ago doesn't necessarily chart the course of the pandemic happening now.National Photo Company Collection/Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/Library of...
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What is tear gas?
Police officers wearing riot gear push back demonstrators shooting tear gas next to St. John's Episcopal Church outside of the White House, June 1, 2020 in Washington D.C., during a protest over the...
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A new hybrid fungus is found in hospitals and linked to lung disease
Theseus fighting against the minotaur, a hybrid of man and bull.clu / Getty ImagesFrom the mythical minotaur to the mule, creatures created from merging two or more distinct organisms – hybrids– have...
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Science of 'Seinfeld'
Actors Jason Alexander (George), Jerry Seinfeld (Jerry), Michael Richards (Kramer) and Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine) stand behind bars in a scene during the last days of filming the final episode in...
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A few superspreaders transmit the majority of coronavirus cases
A few people in the crowd will be responsible for the bulk of a disease’s spread.Pacific Press /LightRocket via Getty ImagesThe coronavirus has traveled the globe, infecting one person at a time. Some...
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Summer visitors to American parks choose safety first over freedom to roam
Utah's Bryce Canyon National Park hosted more than 2.5 million visitors in 2019.Photo by Anqi Lu on UnsplashIn a typical summer, millions of Americans head outdoors to national parks, hiking trails and...
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Vibrators had a long history as medical quackery before feminists rebranded...
A 1930s vibrator was just another household appliance.Fiona Hanson/PA Images via Getty Images)In the contemporary moment of sex-positive feminism, praises for the orgasmic capacity of the vibrator...
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Scientific fieldwork 'caught in the middle' of US-Mexico border tensions
The political border cuts in two a region rich in biological and cultural diversity.John Moore/Getty Images News via Getty ImagesImagine you’re a scientist, setting out camera traps to snap pictures of...
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Workplaces are turning to devices to monitor social distancing, but does the...
Maintaining social distancing is a challenge as workplaces reopen during the coronavirus pandemic. miodrag ignjatovic/E+ via Getty ImagesAs we emerge from the coronavirus lockdown, those of us who...
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COVID-19's deadliness for men is revealing why researchers should have been...
Reports show that the mortality rate among men with COVID-19 is higher than women. Marco Mantovani/Getty ImagesWhen it comes to surviving critical cases of COVID-19, it appears that men draw the short...
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First space tourists will face big risks, as private companies gear up for...
Ready to take your suborbital selfie?EvgeniyShkolenkoOn May 30, 2020, millions of Americans watched the inaugural SpaceX Crew Dragon launch NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. This...
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Am I immune to COVID-19 if I have antibodies?
For those who have suffered from COVID-19, do their antibodies guarantee immunity from subsequent disease?SEBASTIAN KAULITZKI / Getty ImagesPerhaps the most important question now about COVID-19 is the...
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High-tech surveillance amplifies police bias and overreach
Police forces have a wide range of options for monitoring individuals and crowds.Nicholas Kaeser/Flickr, CC BY-NCVideo of police in riot gear clashing with unarmed protesters in the wake of the killing...
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What the archaeological record reveals about epidemics throughout history –...
Dead men do tell tales through their physical remains.AP Photo/Francesco BelliniThe previous pandemics to which people often compare COVID-19 – the influenza pandemic of 1918, the Black Death bubonic...
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Meteorites from Mars contain clues about the red planet's geology
Artist's rendition of NASA's 2020 Mars rover collecting rocks with its robotic arm.NASADespite the pandemic, NASA is on track to launch its Mars rover, Perseverance, this July from Cape Canaveral,...
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'Normal' human body temperature is a range around 98.6 F – a physiologist...
A salon owner scans a customer for fever before performing a service.Bruce Bennett/Getty Images News via Getty ImagesFever is common in the symptomatic stage of COVID-19, and as workplaces andchild...
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