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09/01/2022

Who has the highest risk of long COVID? It's complicated

Sep 01 2022 6:00 AM

Long COVID can look different for different people, making it difficult to pinpoint the risk factors behind it.

Ancient 'demon ducks' may have been undone by their slow growth

Aug 31 2022 9:00 AM

Mihirung birds grew to more than half a ton and took their time getting there. That slow growth may have been a vulnerability when humans got to Australia.

Physicists dispute a claim of detecting a black hole's 'photon ring'

Aug 31 2022 7:00 AM

A thin ring of light around a black hole, which would probe gravity in a new way, has been found, one team claims. Skeptics aren't convinced.

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The curious case of the 471-day coronavirus infection

Aug 30 2022 9:00 AM

One patient couldn't get rid of their coronavirus infection. The case gave scientists an unprecedented look at viral evolution.

This bizarre ancient critter has been kicked out of a group that includes humans

Aug 30 2022 7:00 AM

A wee sea creature without an anus was thought to be the oldest deuterostome. New imaging showing it had spines led to its reclassification.

The Tonga eruption may have spawned a tsunami as tall as the Statue of Liberty

Aug 29 2022 9:00 AM

A massive undersea volcanic eruption in the South Pacific in January created a tsunami that was initially 90 meters tall, computer simulations suggest.

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COVID-19 gave new urgency to the science of restoring smell

Aug 29 2022 7:00 AM

With newfound pressure from the pandemic, olfactory training and a host of other newer treatments are now getting a lot more attention.

The James Webb telescope spotted CO2 in an exoplanet's atmosphere

Aug 26 2022 2:46 PM

The first definitive detection of the gas on a world in another solar system paves the way for detections in planets that are more Earthlike.

How death's-head hawkmoths manage to fly straight for miles in the dark

Aug 26 2022 9:00 AM

By tailing death's-head hawkmoths in an airplane, scientists have found that the nocturnal insects appear to navigate using an internal compass.

NASA's Artemis I mission sets the stage for our return to the moon

Aug 26 2022 7:00 AM

The launch will test many aspects of the rocket, capsule and spacesuits that will take astronauts back to the moon.

'Chameleon' forces remain elusive in a new dark energy experiment

Aug 25 2022 11:00 AM

A hypothetical fifth force associated with "chameleon" dark energy and that morphs based on its environment didn't turn up in a sensitive experiment.

A new seasoning smells like meat thanks to sugar — and mealworms

Aug 25 2022 7:00 AM

A spoonful of sugars could help cooked mealworms go down more easily, a potential boon for the planet.

7-million-year-old limb fossils may be from the earliest known hominid

Aug 24 2022 11:00 AM

An earlier report on one of the bones of a 7-million-year-old creature that may have walked upright has triggered scientific misconduct charges.

50 years ago, genes eluded electron microscopes

Aug 24 2022 10:10 AM

In the 1970s, scientists dreamed of seeing genes under the microscope. Fifty years later, powerful new tools are helping to make that dream come true.

Sleep deprivation may make people less generous

Aug 23 2022 2:00 PM

Helping each other is inherently human. Yet new research shows that sleep deprivation may dampen people's desire to donate money.

The discovery of the Kuiper Belt revamped our view of the solar system

Aug 23 2022 9:22 AM

Thirty years ago, astronomers found the Kuiper Belt, a region of space home to Pluto and other icy worlds that helped show how the solar system evolved.

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