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08/10/2021

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

A new book reveals stories of ancient life written in North America's rocks

Aug 03 2021 8:00 AM

In 'How the Mountains Grew,' John Dvorak probes the interlinked geology and biology buried within the rocks of North America.

Black holes born with magnetic fields quickly shed them

Aug 03 2021 6:00 AM

New computer simulations show one way that black holes might discard their magnetic fields.

Greece's Santorini volcano erupts more often when sea level drops

Aug 02 2021 11:00 AM

During past periods of lower sea levels, when more of Earth's water was locked up in glaciers during ice ages, the Santorini volcano erupted more.

A hammerhead shark baby boom near Florida hints at a historic nursery

Aug 02 2021 8:00 AM

Finding an endangered shark nursery in a vast ocean is like finding a needle in a haystack. But that's just what scientists did near Miami.

A super-short gamma-ray burst defies astronomers' expectations

Aug 02 2021 6:00 AM

A faraway eruption of gamma rays that lasted for only a second had a surprising origin: the implosion of a massive star.

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