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(Newser) – It seems shorter than a millisecond, shorter than a nanosecond, and shorter than a summer when you’re a child – it’s a zeptosecond, a unit used to measure the short intervals of time recorded by scientists. Zeptosecond is the trillionth of a second bill or 20 zeros per …

California health officials on Tuesday issued long-awaited guidelines for reopening theme parks in the state, setting targets when attractions such as Disneyland Resort, Anaheim and Universal Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles could open their doors. For large parks, that could go a long way: their counties must reach at least …

To collect the wreckage of a handful of universes for analysis on Earth, NASA spacecraft successfully located on a planet, throwing the size of a building into the rock. The team from the space agency behind the Osiris-Rex project said preliminary data showed that the sample collection went according to …

One of the original authors of the letter was Harvard T.H. There are many ways to control the coronavirus epidemic, but “uncontrolled transmission is not one of them,” said William Henaj, an epidemiologist at the Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Nah, an infectious disease physician at Boston Medical Center …

(LR) Spencer Fust, an assistant professor of geology and third-year geology student at the UH Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, applied a technique developed by the UH Center for Tectonics and Tomography to re-apply the technique. Plato appeared in the Pacific Ocean during the early Cenozoic era. Credit: University …