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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Rising seas will exacerbate problems that coastal communities are already dealing with, including high-tide, or “nuisance,” floods. Inundated roadways like this one in Virginia are among the consequences of such…
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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…
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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…
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Ever since humans began committing their view of the world to flat slabs of rock and papyrus, we had a sense that our mental maps are laid out in much…
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From left: Martin Eklund and Tobias Nordström, associate professors at Karolinska Institutet. Credit: Stefan Zimmerman Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden recently reported that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could reduce…
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Global eradication of COVID-19 probably feasible, and more so than for polio, say public health experts. Main challenges lie in securing high vaccine uptake and response to emergence of variants.…
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Credit: NASA The Space Telescope Science Institute Will Host Roman’s Science Operations Center and Data Archive NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has just…
