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Recently discovered comet seen during 2020 total solar eclipse
Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/Andreas Möller (Arbeitskreis Meteore e.V.)/processed by Jay Pasachoff and Roman Vanur/Joy Ng. Eclipse image used with permission. As Chile...
Devastating skin disease covering up to 70% of a dolphin’s body tied to climate change
In collaboration with Australian researchers, The Marine Mammal Center has found that the increasing frequency and severity of storm systems...
NASA finds what a glacier’s slope reveals about Greenland Ice Sheet thinning
Credit: Credits: Denis Felikson As glaciers flow outward from the Greenland Ice Sheet, what lies beneath them offers clues to...
NASA’s Webb sunshield successfully unfolds and tensions in final tests
Credit: Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn Lengthened to the size of a tennis court, the five-layer sunshield of NASA's fully assembled James...
American Roentgen Ray Society awards 2021 scholarships to Tatiana Kelil, Camilo Jaimes
Kelil to pursue personalized breast cancer risk assessment using imaging biomarkers and machine learning; Jaimes to investigate fetal diffusion tensor...
How does the brain project manage its learning?
A new paper in Science co-authored by Dr. Richard Naud sheds light on the role of the perirhinal cortexCredit: University...
APS plays foundational role in development of COVID-19 vaccines
Credit: Jason McLellan There is light at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic tunnel. Several vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus...
New mechanism of force transduction in muscle cells discovered
Researchers of Münster University reveal mechanobiological function of muscle-specific adhesion proteinCredit: Carsten Grashoff The ability of cells to sense and...
World’s first transmission of 1 Petabit/s using a single-core multimode optical fiber
Credit: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Points A world record transmission of 1 petabit per second in...
Researchers publish free guides packed with wisdom from COVID-19 patients and caregivers
Practical tips for COVID-19 hospital and post-hospital care available for anyone to use, and for any hospital or health system...
AI-supported test predicts eye disease three years before symptoms
Credit: Novai/UCL/Western Eye Hospital A pioneering new eye test, developed by scientists at UCL in collaboration with the Western Eye...
New SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody enters clinical phase
Credit: NIAID Cologne, Marburg, Braunschweig and Ingelheim, Germany, 18 December 2020 - Cologne University Hospital (UKK), University of Marburg (UMR),...
New discovery brings analogue spintronic devices closer
Credit: S. Omar, University of Groningen The observation of nonlinearity in electron spin-related processes in graphene makes it easier to...
Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) ‘Practices of Comparing’ extended
German Research Foundation (DFG) supports network with 11.9 million euros in fundingCredit: Photo: Bielefeld University/S. Jonek The German Research Foundation...
The Subaru Telescope photographs the next target asteroid for Hayabusa2
Credit: NAOJ On December 10, 2020 (Hawai?i Standard Time), the Subaru Telescope imaged the small asteroid 1998 KY26, the target...
Skoltech obtains State Registration for a full 5G base station software stack
State Registration marks a new milestone in the project pursued by Skoltech and its technology partners to build a platform...
Power boost thanks to gold lamellae
Research team develops new material system to convert and generate terahertz wavesCredit: HZDR/Werkstatt X On the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz light...
Blood pressure drug may be key to increasing lifespan, new study shows
Metolazone, a drug used to treat hypertension, activates a mitochondrial stress response that prolongs lifespan in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegansCredit:...
Three-dimensionally reconstituted organoids that are just like human organs
Credit: Kunyoo Shin (POSTECH) Organoids are organ-like tissues derived from stem cells that are grown in labs, often referred to...
Compressive fluctuations heat ions in space plasma
Credit: Yohei Kawazura New simulations carried out in part on the ATERUI II supercomputer in Japan have found that the...
