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[ad_1] COVID-19 may have already arrived in the United States in December 2019, before the disease was even identified in China, a new study suggests. Researchers in the study, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), analyzed more than 7,000 blood donations collected by the American Red Cross …

[ad_1] University of Gothenburg The climate in inland East Asia may already have reached a tipping point, where the transition in recent years to unusually hot and dry summers may be irreversible. This is the result of a new international study by researchers from the University of Gothenburg now published …

[ad_1] Composite image of the moth Antheraea pernyi (top) and the butterfly Graphium agamemnon (bottom) showing photographs on the left and ultrasound (tomography) on the right. Notice how moth wings have weaker echoes (acoustic image) than butterfly wings.Marc Holderied and Thomas Neil False color 3D representation of a 0.21 mm …

[ad_1] Life on planet Earth is a fragile thing. All you need is a wayward asteroid, and bam, here’s the most dominant group of land animals on our planet. Had it not been for the 10-kilometer-wide meteorite that crashed to Earth some 66 million years ago, dinosaurs could have continued …

[ad_1] First introduced in wide use in the mid 1920sth century, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has since become an indispensable technique for examining materials down to their atoms, revealing molecular structure and other details without interfering with the material itself. “It is a widely used technique in chemical analysis, material …

[ad_1] A group of researchers led by Sir Andre Geim and Dr Alexey Berdyugin at the University of Manchester has discovered and characterized a new family of quasiparticles called “Brown-Zak fermions” in graphene-based super lattices. The team achieved this breakthrough by aligning the atomic lattice of a graphene layer with …

[ad_1] LOS ALAMOS, NM, November 12, 2020: Two new studies of the brightest lightning events on Earth, called “superbolt”, have found that they are distinct from normal lightning and can be over 1,000 times brighter. The new findings could help scientists better understand these mysterious strikes and inform safety efforts, …

[ad_1] Scientists at Tohoku University have found that human editing enzymes are likely behind a type of mutation in the COVID-19 virus that stimulates the release of pro-inflammatory molecules called cytokines by the body’s immune cells. The discovery, published in Scientific Reports, is important for understanding how the virus is …

[ad_1] Spending time regularly in nature appears to have strong psychological benefits. As more compelling evidence comes in, doctors are prescribing more and more time outdoors, in the green or near water to give our mental health a boost. While these recommendations may help some people, new research suggests there …

[ad_2][ad_1] The senior NGO of the Russian Authors Society (RAO) will launch a blockchain-based financial platform for loans secured by intellectual property, according to the Russian newspaper TASS 16 November. The CEO of RAO, Alexander Sukhotin, has revealed that the project, called CoFi, is at its final stages of development …