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08/12/2021

Colds and other common respiratory diseases might surge as kids return to school

Aug 12 2021 6:00 AM

Recent historically low levels of some respiratory illnesses may lead to outbreaks this fall and winter, creating disruptions as kids return to school.

Ripples in rats' brains tied to memory may also reduce sugar levels

Aug 11 2021 11:00 AM

Brain signals called sharp-wave ripples have an unexpected job: influencing the body's sugar levels, a study in rats suggests.

Psychology has struggled for a century to make sense of the mind

Aug 11 2021 9:00 AM

Research into what makes us tick has been messy and contentious, but has led to intriguing insights.

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6 answers to parents' COVID-19 questions as kids return to school

Aug 11 2021 6:00 AM

Universal masking in schools could prevent a bumpy 2021–22 schoolyear and keep kids, many of whom are too young to be vaccinated, safe, experts say.

Windbreaks, surprisingly, could help wind farms boost power output

Aug 10 2021 8:00 AM

Wind farm performance could be improved by 10 percent by using low barriers to increase the wind speed directed at the turbines, simulations suggest.

What kids lost when COVID-19 upended school

Aug 10 2021 6:00 AM

Researchers are starting to tally how a year and a half of pandemic has left many children struggling academically and emotionally.

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The new UN climate change report shows there's no time for denial or delay

Aug 09 2021 6:47 PM

Human-caused climate change is unequivocally behind extreme weather events from heat waves to floods to droughts, a massive new assessment concludes.

Colliding photons were spotted making matter. But are the photons 'real'?

Aug 09 2021 8:00 AM

Smashups of particles of light creating electrons and positrons could demonstrate the physics of Einstein's equation E=mc2.

Schools are reopening. COVID-19 is still here. What does that mean for kids?

Aug 09 2021 6:00 AM

Children do get COVID-19, and some become very sick and even die. But the disease's long-term effects on kids remain uncertain.

50 years ago, scientists developed self-destructing plastic

Aug 06 2021 8:00 AM

In the 1970s, scientists developed plastic that could quickly break down when exposed to light. But that didn't solve the world's pollution problems.

What science tells us about reducing coronavirus spread from wind instruments

Aug 06 2021 6:00 AM

Performers struggled to find evidence that would free them from musical lockdown, so they partnered with researchers to get some answers.

Squirrels use parkour tricks when leaping from branch to branch

Aug 05 2021 2:00 PM

Squirrels navigate through trees by making rapid calculations to balance trade-offs between branch flexibility and the distance between tree limbs.

How particle detectors capture matter's hidden, beautiful reality

Aug 05 2021 6:00 AM

Old and new detectors trace the whirling paths of subatomic particles.

A lunar magnetic field may have lasted for only a short time

Aug 04 2021 2:33 PM

New analyses of Apollo-era lunar rocks suggest that any magnetosphere that the moon ever had endured for no more than 500 million years.

A bounty of potential gravitational wave events hints at exciting possibilities

Aug 04 2021 10:16 AM

Of about 1,200 possible events, most are probably false alarms, but some could be ripples in spacetime that are especially hard to spot.

Snake-eating spiders are surprisingly common

Aug 04 2021 6:00 AM

Spiders from at least 11 families feed on serpents many times their size, employing a host of tactics to turn even venomous snakes into soup.

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