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Hidden SARS-CoV-2 “Gate” Discovered – Opens To Allow COVID Infection

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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 “down” to an “up”...
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Jupiter’s Gigantic Super Polar Cyclones Are Here To Stay

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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 NASA’s Juno space probe entered its...
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Chemistry Breakthrough: Faster and Cheaper Ethanol-to-Jet-Fuel on the Horizon

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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 up at the U.S. Department...
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Highest-Resolution Measurements of Asteroid Surface Temperatures Ever Obtained From Earth

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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, has produced the first temperature...
America

Scientists Detect Tens of Thousands of Different Molecules in Beer – 80% Not Yet Described in Chemical Databases

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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 invention of agriculture, considering that...
America

“Great Unconformity” Puzzle: Geologists Dig Into Grand Canyon’s Mysterious Gap in Time

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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 time in the canyon’s...
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Substantial Water Reservoir on Mars? Earthly Rocks Point Way To Water Hidden on the Red Planet

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Hydrohematite (right) is a brighter red than anhydrous hematite (left). Credit: Si Athena Chen, Penn State A combination of a once-debunked 19th-century identification of a water-carrying iron mineral and the fact that these rocks are...
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New Sun Clock Resolves Fast Changes Between the Solar Seasons

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New solar cycle clock resolves timings of solar activity, revealing the long and the short of the Sun’s seasons. Research led by University of Warwick suggests the switching between seasons can be fast. The declining phase...
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Extra 267,000 Infant Deaths in 2020 as a Result of COVID-19 Economic Downturn

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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 a result of the economic...
America

Solved: Mysterious Solar Paradox That Puzzled Physicists for 25 Years

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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 recently discovered in the light...
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Strong Evidence That Beijing’s Policies Meet the Criteria for Genocide of the Uyghur People

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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 reducing its population of Uyghurs...
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Ripples in Saturn’s Rings Reveals “Fuzzy” Nature of Gas Giant’s Core

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An illustration of Saturn and its “fuzzy” core. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Saturn Makes Waves in its Own Rings In the same way that earthquakes cause our planet to rumble, oscillations in the interior of Saturn...
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Philippine Negrito People Have the Highest Level of Ancient Denisovan DNA in the World

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Researchers have known from several lines of evidence that the ancient hominins known as the Denisovans interbred with modern humans in the distant past. Now researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on August 12,...
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Unlike Humans, Cuttlefish Retain Sharp Memory of Specific Events in Old Age

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The common cuttlefish is one of the largest and best-known cuttlefish species. Credit: © Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0 Cuttlefish can remember what, where, and when specific events happened – right up to their last...
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Protein Pathways: Mentally Stimulating Jobs Linked to Lower Risk of Dementia in Old Age

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Certain proteins might provide clues to underlying biological mechanisms, say researchers. People with mentally stimulating jobs have a lower risk of dementia in old age than those with non-stimulating jobs, finds a study published by The...
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New Research Shows Fibromyalgia Is Likely the Result of Autoimmune Problems

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Fibromyalgia, or fibromyalgia syndrome, is a condition that causes aches and pain all over the body. New research has shown that many of the symptoms in fibromyalgia syndrome are caused by antibodies that increase the...
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Important Clue to Rare Inflammatory Disease Found in Children Following COVID-19 Infection

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Mount Sinai researchers have found an important clue to a rare but serious aftereffect of COVID-19 in children, known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children or MIS-C. The researchers reported that RNA sequencing of blood...
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Traces of Dwarf Planet Ceres’ Icy Crust Found at Occator Crater

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The study focused on Occator crater (left), which contains Ceres’ most prominent bright spots. The newly reported map (right) reveals higher concentrations of hydrogen than expected if the near sub-surface within Occator crater and...
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Online “Library of Properties” Helps To Create Safer Nanomaterials Faster

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Scales of descriptors — from whole nanoparticle to unit cell to individual atoms. Credit: University of Birmingham Researchers have developed a ‘library of properties’ to help identify the environmental impact of nanomaterials faster and more...
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2021 BMC Ecology and Evolution Image Competition: See the Spectacular Winning Photographs

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Overall Winner and Best Image for ‘Conservation Biology.’ A school of jack fish in a spiral formation at Heron Island in the Great Barrier Reef. A visual metaphor for the spiraling crisis unfolding within...
America

Let Them Burn? How Wildfire Restored a Lost Forest Ecosystem in Yosemite

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In Yosemite’s Illilouette Creek basin, a stand of young Sierra lodgepole pine grow in a forest clearing that was created by wildfire 20 years prior. Mt. Starr King appears in the background. Credit: UC...
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NASA’s Juno Celebrates 10 Years With New Infrared View of Mammoth Jovian Moon Ganymede

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This infrared view of Jupiter’s icy moon Ganymede was obtained by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its July 20th, 2021, flyby. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM The spacecraft used its infrared...
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Wildfire Smoke Exposure May Greatly Increase Risk of Contracting COVID-19

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Wildfire smoke may greatly increase susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, according to new research from the Center for Genomic Medicine at the Desert Research Institute, Washoe County Health District, and Renown...
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Exploring Nuclear Reactions in Exploding Stars and the Origin of Aluminum-26

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The illustration shows an aluminum-26 nucleus (green) escaping a supernova explosion. It will subsequently decay via gamma-ray emission that can be observed by satellites. Credit: Erin O’Donnell, FRIB Scientists from the University of Surrey and the FRIB...
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Natural Compound Found in Fruit May Prevent and Treat Parkinson’s Disease

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Farnesol is found in fruit, such as peaches. Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have added to evidence that the compound farnesol, found naturally in herbs, and berries and other fruits, prevents and reverses brain...
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