Science

The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute studies families with coronavirus to find out why their children were immune

[ad_1] Victorian couple Leila Sawenko and Tony Maguire were shocked when they contracted COVID-19 after traveling interstate for their friends’ wedding in March of this year. Key points: Doctors and scientists from the Royal Children’s Hospital of Melbourne and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute investigated why three children did not …

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The small satellite that is paying big dividends

[ad_1] Credit: Pixabay / CC0 Public Domain Think of the International Space Station and most likely imagine an orbiting laboratory, where scientists observe how plants, materials and humans react to microgravity conditions. But over the past decade, the station has also played a very different role: that of a business …

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Fast Radio Burst in our galaxy is officially a repeater

[ad_1] This site can earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Astronomers have been trying to understand the nature of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) in recent years, and a number of recent discoveries may have brought us tantalizing close to unraveling the mystery. Last month, …

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Gravitational lenses measure the expansion of the universe

[ad_1] Credit: Pixabay / CC0 Public Domain It’s one of the big debates on cosmology: the universe is expanding, but exactly how fast? Two available measurements produce different results. Leiden physicist David Harvey adapted a third independent measurement method using the light deformation properties of galaxies predicted by Einstein. He …

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