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Malaysia detects coronavirus strain that’s ten times more infectious
The mutation called D614G was found in at least three of the 45 cases in a…
How Do You Solve a Moon Mystery? Fire a Laser at It
Researchers have used reflective prisms left on the moon’s surface for decades, but had increasingly seen…
There’s a 90% Chance of a Successful Coronavirus Vaccine: Experts
Welcome to the COVID-19 arms race. Read more at The National Interest…
Everything Wrong With Modern Theoretical Physics In One Paper’s Practical Summary
There was once a time when theoretical physicists were prized because they were basically smarter than…
This star is moving so fast it visibly warps spacetime
S62 is moving at eight percent the speed of light — just fast enough to see…
AI Approach Identifies Potential New Drugs to Treat COVID-19
A machine-learning approach screened millions of commercially available small moleculesto identify hundreds of potential drug candidates…
Hubble spies the culprit behind Betelgeuse star’s dimming
The Hubble Space Telescope may have solved the mystery of why Betelgeuse, a massive bright star,…
429-million-year-old trilobite eye fossil ‘almost identical to that of modern bees’
Digital microscopy showed the fossilised trilobite had a ‘fully modern type of visual system’ similar to…
Weird ‘boomerang’ earthquake detected under the Atlantic Ocean
The temblor shot across the seafloor and back to where it started so fast it created…
Mystery solved: 240-million-year-old reptile with ‘extraordinarily long neck’ lived in the ocean
Tanystropheus was first described in 1852 but until now, scientists didn’t know whether the 6m-long reptile…
Mysterious ‘fast radio burst’ detected closer to Earth than ever before
Most FRBs originate hundreds of millions of light-years away. This one came from inside the Milky…
Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates
Microsoft Excel: 1 — Human Genetics: 0. Read more at The Verge…
The Tragic Physics of the Deadly Explosion in Beirut
A blast injury specialist explores the chemistry—and history—of explosions like the one captured in videos that…
Ancient Mars may have been covered in ice, not water, study suggests
As the Perseverance rover heads to Mars to look for signs of ancient life, a new…
To Make Oxygen on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance Rover Needs MOXIE
A new tool from the space agency may produce the gas, completing the next step for…
Earth’s asteroid impact rate took a sudden jump 290 million years ago
Looking at impact craters on both the Earth and Moon, a team of scientists found that…
As if space wasn’t dangerous enough, bacteria become more deadly in microgravity
For many nations and their people, space is becoming the ultimate frontier. Read more at Inverse…
SpaceX Satellites Ruin Photographer’s Shots of Comet NEOWISE
As NASA recently warned, the light pollution caused by the boom in satellites is indeed “wreaking…
First underwater methane leak discovered near Antarctica
What’s worse, Antarctica’s methane-eating microbes aren’t doing their jobs. Read more at livescience.com…