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T-shirts, socks, jeans, vacuum cleaner bags, N95

[ad_1] A team of researchers tested everything from T-shirts and socks to jeans and vacuum bags to determine which type of mask material is most effective at trapping ultrafine particles that can contain viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Researchers, from the University of Cambridge and Northwestern …

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For the first time, “sprite” lightning strikes have been detected on Jupiter, says NASA

[ad_1] NASA’s Juno spacecraft just captured images of colorful bursts of lightning-like electricity in Jupiter’s atmosphere. These phenomena, which include jellyfish-shaped “sprites” and glowing discs called “elves,” also occur high in the Earth’s atmosphere during thunderstorms. They were first documented in 1989. Scientists predicted that other lightning planets, such as …

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Webb from NASA to examine objects in the solar system cemetery

[ad_1] Beyond Neptune’s orbit, a diverse collection of thousands of dwarf planets and other relatively small objects live in a region called the Kuiper Belt. These often untouched remnants of our solar system’s formative days are called Kuiper Belt Objects, or Trans-Neptunian Objects. NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will …

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Asteroid 16 Psyche worth $ 10,000,000,000,000,000,000, NASA says

[ad_1] An extremely rare asteroid made primarily of metal is worth approximately $ 10,000,000,000,000,000,000. That’s 10,000 quadrillion dollars or one followed by 19 zeros. While most asteroids are made of rock or ice, the mysterious asteroid 16 Psyche is nearly 27,200,000,000,000,000 (27 quadrillion and two hundred trillion) tons of iron …

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