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LOS ANGELES (AP) – The coronavirus pandemic forced people to stay put, but it gave sharks a travel pass and scientists a rare opportunity. Ocean spots removed from fishing boats and other intrusions by quarantines of COVID-19 saw increased and even unusual behavior of marine life – and Discovery Channel’s …

Credit: Pixabay / CC0 Public Domain Duke Eric Westman was one of the first champions of masking as a means of curbing the spread of coronavirus, and worked with a local nonprofit to provide free masks to at-risk and under-served populations in the greater Durham community. . But he needed …

Now NASA is adding celestial bodies to the list that includes Aunt Jemima, the Washington Football Team and hitmakers The Chicks and Lady A. “Eskimo Nebula” and “Siamese Twins Galaxy” are out, for example. “Nicknames are often more approachable and public – friendly than official names for cosmic objects, such …

The Red Rectangle, named after its unique box shape, lies about 2,300 light-years from Earth. Located in the constellation Monoceros, the Red Rectangle was first detected by astronomers during a rocket flight in the 1970s. The US space agency NASA has meanwhile revealed unusual detail in the structure of the …

NASA has just announced that the spacecraft Juno has again observed “Superbolts” of lightning in the atmosphere of Jupiter. And while lightning on the jumbo planet is not new, this latest observation may help answer big questions. Big questions like: Why is there such a funky distribution of ammonia in …