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[ad_1] The half-size asteroid of Mount Everest will fly close to Earth next week, and an image shows the object ‘in a mask’ similar to the scientist watching it amid the coronavirus pandemic. An asteroid will pass 3.9 million miles from Earth on April 29. It was first seen in …

[ad_1] A schematic drawing of the new device system. Credit: Brian Cunningham Most viral test kits are based on laboratory analysis and preparation techniques that require a lot of work and time; For example, tests for the new coronavirus can take days to detect the virus from nasal swabs. Now, …

[ad_1] Photographer Timothy Wenzel created this composite of six Lyrid meteor photos he captured from Midland, Michigan, in the early morning hours of April 22, 2020. (Image credit: Courtesy of Timothy Wenzel) The annual Lyrid meteor shower put on an exceptional show for skywatchers this year, with the new moon …

[ad_1] Visualizations of brain endocasts (blue) of the skulls of a dinosaur and a modern bird. Credit: WitmerLab at Ohio University. An international team of evolutionary biologists and paleontologists has reconstructed the evolution of the avian brain using a massive dataset of brain volumes from dinosaurs, extinct birds such as …

[ad_1] Of the 30 billion plastic bottles used by UK households each year, only 57% are currently recycled. With half of these in landfills, half of all recycled plastic bottles are wasted. Around 700,000 plastic bottles a day end up as garbage. This is largely due to the plastic wrap …

[ad_1] Arrokoth Credit: NASA A model developed at the Technion Faculty of Physics, in collaboration with German scientists in Tübingen, explains the unique properties of Arrokoth, the most distant object ever photographed in the solar system. The research team’s results shed new light on the formation of Kuiper Belt objects, …

[ad_1] On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins made history when their Apollo 11 mission successfully put the first man on the lunar surface. Armstrong became an overnight sensation, leaped off the moon lander and delivered his iconic “one step” speech to the millions watching from …

[ad_1] An engineer who became homeless due to the coronavirus crisis said conditions in a hostel put his life in danger – so he moved out and is now living in his car. A video submitted by James Jones shows what appears to be a loose electrical cable touching exposed …

[ad_1] Fifty years after the photo of an astronaut from our home planet gave rise to the first Earth Day celebration, NASA turned to another means to “reconstruct” a planetary formation challenge. NASA and Lego announced the new toy company Activity “Build a planet” on Wednesday (April 22), The 50th …

[ad_1] Scientists have discovered which types of cells in the human body may be most susceptible to infection by SARS-CoV-2 virus, identifying putative targets for the pathogen based on the types of proteins produced by the cells. During the original SARS epidemic in the early 2000s, researchers discovered that the …