A new study pushes the permanent rise of oxygen in the atmosphere to 100 million years…
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NASA Now Has Direct Evidence Humans Cause Global Warming
Now, NASA has calculated individual impacts on climate change and can definitively share humans’ role in…
‘Strong’ evidence found for a new force of nature
Physicists may have just made a major breakthrough in our understanding of the Universe. Read more…
New Decoy Protein Treatment Fools Coronavirus, Rendering It Impotent
Treatment reduces lung damage and results in mild symptoms in a preclinical study. A novel decoy…
AI in Drug Discovery Starts to Live Up to the Hype
Machine learning–based techniques are finding a place in early-stage target discovery and in drug development workflows.…
NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity touches down on the Red Planet
The Perseverance rover dropped the helicopter on April 4, 2021. Read more at Space.com…
Harvard Scientists Excited by Results on New Cancer Vaccine
Personalized cancer vaccines may be just “a few years” away. Read more at Futurism…
Matrix Multiplication Inches Closer to Mythic Goal
A matrix can also have entries that are themselves matrices. These four-by-four matrix matrix has four…
Scientists Just Killed the EmDrive
The “impossible” emdrive has failed international testing in three new papers. The idea was always far…
Mysterious Interstellar Visitor May Be the Most Pristine Comet Ever Found
New observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) indicate that the rogue…
The Remnants of Theia May Still Exist Deep Inside the Earth – ExtremeTech
The remnants of Theia, the planetesimal that created the Moon, may still exist hundreds of miles…
Why COVID-19 survivors should only get one dose of mRNA vaccine
Data seems to be indicating that survivors of COVID-19 may not need two doses of mRNA…
Mathematicians Find a New Class of Digitally Delicate Primes
Despite finding no specific examples, researchers have proved the existence of a pervasive kind of prime…
Real-world evidence shows that the COVID-19 vaccines work
They’re just as effective as they were in clinical trials. Read more at The Verge…
Scientists built a perfectly self-replicating synthetic cell
Scientists have crafted a single-celled synthetic organism that divides and multiplies just like the real thing.…
Direct Observations by NASA Confirm that Humans are Throwing Earth’s Energy Budget off Balance
Earth is on a budget – an energy budget. Our planet is constantly trying to balance…
More Evidence Links ‘Cat Scratch’ Bacteria and Schizophrenia
New research is the latest to find evidence of a link between mental illness and infections…
There Appears to Be a Huge Chunk of an Ancient Planet Buried Inside Earth
“I think it’s completely viable until someone tells me it’s not.” Read more at Futurism…
Scientists Have Discovered a New Pattern In a Repeating Signal from Space
What astronomers found in the most precise time measurement of a fast radio burst ever captured.…
Raspberry Pi Detects Unseen Cosmic Rays from Space
A down-to-earth project to keep your head in the stars. Read more at Tom’s Hardware…