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Up to 3 Cups of Coffee per Day Associated With Health Benefits
Up to three cups of coffee per day is associated with a lower risk of stroke and fatal heart disease, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2021.1,2 “To our…
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Hidden SARS-CoV-2 “Gate” Discovered – Opens To Allow COVID Infection
The glycan gate opens: Supercomputing-driven simulations depict the glycan N343 (magenta) acting as a molecular crowbar to pry open the SARS-CoV-2 spike’s receptor binding domain, or RBD (cyan), from a…
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Jupiter’s Gigantic Super Polar Cyclones Are Here To Stay
Pentagon of vortices. Mosaic of infrared images of Jupiter’s south pole. Credit: NASA/SWRI/JPL/ASI/INAF/IAPS Weizmann Institute scientists reveal how gigantic cyclones remain stable at both of Jupiter’s poles. Until recently, before…
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Chemistry Breakthrough: Faster and Cheaper Ethanol-to-Jet-Fuel on the Horizon
New catalyst and microchannel reactors improve efficiency and cost. A patented process for converting alcohol sourced from renewable or industrial waste gases into jet or diesel fuel is being scaled…
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Extra 267,000 Infant Deaths in 2020 as a Result of COVID-19 Economic Downturn
Figures correspond to nearly 7% more than expected, show World Bank economist estimates. An extra 267,000 infants will likely have died in 2020 in low and middle income countries as…
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Solved: Mysterious Solar Paradox That Puzzled Physicists for 25 Years
Image of the solar atmosphere showing a coronal mass ejection. Credit: NASA/SDO In 1998, the journal Nature published a seminal letter concluding that the mysterious polarization signal that had been…
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Strong Evidence That Beijing’s Policies Meet the Criteria for Genocide of the Uyghur People
Uyghur population policies could lead to 4.5 million lives lost by 2040, according to study. A new study out today provides the most compelling evidence to-date that China is deliberately…
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Highest-Resolution Measurements of Asteroid Surface Temperatures Ever Obtained From Earth
The study’s target, Psyche, is the destination of an upcoming NASA mission. A close examination of the millimeter-wavelength emissions from the asteroid Psyche, which NASA intends to visit in 2026,…
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Scientists Detect Tens of Thousands of Different Molecules in Beer – 80% Not Yet Described in Chemical Databases
Study used modern high resolution analytics to reveal enormous metabolic complexity of beer. The tradition of beer brewing dates back to at least 7000 BCE and maybe even to the…
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“Great Unconformity” Puzzle: Geologists Dig Into Grand Canyon’s Mysterious Gap in Time
A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder reveals the complex history behind one of the Grand Canyon’s most well-known geologic features: A mysterious and missing gap of…