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The March 2020 Perseverance Mission kicks off Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 30th. NASA’s Eyes on the Solar System tool allows you to track the spacecraft in real time as it makes its way to Mars for a landing on February 18, 2021. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech A crisply rendered …

At this stage of the pandemic, the structure of SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes Covid-19 – is cemented in most of our brains. Imagine a small atmosphere covered with narrow-minded spikes. These spike proteins, which support the surface of the virus, are notorious for their ability to attach to …

An artistic display of a high-Q metasurface beam splitter. These “high-quality factor” as well as “high-Q” resonators could lead to new ways of manipulating and using light. Credit: Riley A. Suhar Researchers have created ultrathin silicon nanoantennas that drop and divert light, for applications in Quantum Computing, LIDAR and even …

US President Donald Trump has attacked the government agency that oversees the safety of coronavirus vaccine development, claiming that members of the “deep state” at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are deliberately slowing the progress so that a vaccine does not would be available after the November elections. In …

See now: CBS Sports Preseasons All-America Team: Trevor Lawrence Highlights List (3:01) Think of one of the biggest criticisms of athletics in big-time college before the COVID-19 pandemic: Players are isolated from the student body, isolated in the athletics facility who spend more time on their sport than their size. …