Science

Temporary loss of smell, or anosmia, is a common symptom of COVID-19, and a study recently determined the cell types in the upper nasal cavity most vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection. The research team led by neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School (HMS) discovered that non-neuronal cell types may be responsible for …

Red Dead / Ghost Rockstar / Sucker Punch Well, there is a question I wouldn’t have thought a month ago, but here we are. This article was inspired by a tweet and subsequent conversation from the Washington Post’s Gene Park, comparing the two hits, and while they are different games …

Hungarian researchers trying to breed Russian sturgeons and American paddlefish in captivity to help their depleted numbers inadvertently created what the Internet calls a “big shot”, a hybrid version of the two freshwater inhabitants. The species, revealed in the July 6 issue of the journal Genes, was accidentally generated through …

For the first time, scientists have observed that the ‘megaripples’ on Mars, huge sand waves seen on the Martian surface, are mobile structures and not ancient relics trapped in place from the distant past of the Red Planet. Megaripples, which also occur in Earth’s deserts, are generally larger than the …

S. caninervis, the most common moss in the Mojave Desert, spends most of the year parched and brown, in a state of suspended animation waiting for the next rain. “It is something that only a mother can love,” said Dr. Mishler. But mosses are long-lived; a single group could easily …