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Covid: Antibodies ‘fall rapidly after infection’
This is likely to mean immunity levels decline and raises the risk of reinfection, researchers say.…
The BepiColombo Probe Just Took a Ridiculously Close Video of Venus as It Flew By
Two years after it left Earth, Mercury probe BepiColombo has completed the first of its first…
Cause of Alzheimer’s disease traced to mutation in common enzyme
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered a new mechanism by which clumps of tau protein…
Scientists Found an Ancient Tectonic Plate Buried Deep Inside the Earth’s Mantle – ExtremeTech
Geologists have found the remains of a previous continental plate that had only been theorized to…
Scientists discover new organ in the throat
A secret set of salivary glands has been hiding behind the nose. Read more at livescience.com…
Evidence of broadside collision with dwarf galaxy discovered in Milky Way
Nearly 3 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy plunged into the center of the Milky Way…
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft touches down on asteroid Bennu
The mission marks the space agency’s first landing on an asteroid. Read more at CNET…
A Supernova Exploded Perilously Close To Earth 2.5 Million Years Ago
The Earth has been through a lot in the 4.5 billion or so years it’s been…
Finally, the First Room-Temperature Superconductor
It conveys electricity in the climate of a crisp fall day, but only under pressures comparable…
Physicists Just Confirmed The Upper Limit For The Speed of Sound in The Universe
Einstein’s theory of special relativity gave us the speed limit of the Universe – that of…
More people have died from Covid-19 than in the past 5 flu seasons combined
Coronavirus isn’t just deadlier than the flu — it’s also more contagious. These illustrations show why.…
Flurry of coronavirus reinfections leaves scientists puzzled
Though far from common, some patients developed worse symptoms the second time they became infected with…
Physics Nobel Awarded for Darkest Secrets of the Universe
Black holes are incredibly simple: they’re said to have “no hair” meaning all distinctive features seem…
Weird Circles Keep Popping Up Around the World. Alan Turing Predicted Them in 1952.
Here’s what they mean—and how the legendary scientist got them so right. Read more at Popular…
‘The Wire’ Inspired a Fake Turtle Egg That Spies on Poachers
Scientists 3D-printed sea turtle eggs and stuffed transmitters inside. When poachers pulled them out of nests,…
There’s too much gold in the universe. No one knows where it came from.
Something is showering gold across the universe. But no one knows what it is. Read more…
Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene
A team of University of Arkansas physicists has successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene’s…
Crew Dragon Suffered More Damage Than Expected on Crewed Mission | Digital Trends
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon suffered some unexpected damage during its first crewed mission recently, but the company…
The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats
Simples rules of geometry meant that 5-fold symmetry was impossible as were crystals without a periodic…