On December 5, 2020, Haibusa 2’s Rentry Capsules filled with original samples of the Raigu asteroid formed a fireball in the desert sky over the Woomera Prohibited Area of Australia. Credit: Haibusa 2 Collection Team m The team behind ESA’s Hera Planetary Mission congratulates the planets for their protection JXA …
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(CNN) – With barbed wire and electric fencing on its border and the government’s hostility towards migrants, Hungary’s borders are not always friendly to foreigners. It is during normal time. Amid the epidemic, Hungary has closed its doors to almost everyone, even its European neighbors. Unless, of course, they have …
Read More »If United States Was My Patient: Science Can’t Save Us
I would say that is a very good scenario because it is so close to what we are doing, pre-epidemic, it would seem impossible: to make, test, authenticate, produce not just one, but many vaccines in a surprisingly compressed timeline. And delivering – is definitely one of our greatest recent …
Read More »How can airflow inside the car affect the risk of Covid-19 transmission – what works best for windows and ventilation?
The new study looks at how airflow patterns inside the car’s passenger cabin affect the transition to SARS-Cavi-2 and other aerobic pathogens. Using computer simulation, the study looked at the risk of splitting aerosol particles between the driver and the passenger in different configurations of the window. Redder shades indicate …
Read More »This scientist’s decades of mRNA research led to the COVID vaccine
. Half an hour outside of Philadelphia, in a modest suburban building, lives a strange, cheerful 65-year-old scientist who is a big part of people being able to throw off their masks next year. Leading Dr .. Tallinn Kariko – who fled the US in 1985 at the age of …
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