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Tokyo – Under pressure from the scientific community, the World Health Organization recognized last week that airborne transmission of “droplets” as a possible third cause of COVID-19 infections. For many researchers in Japan, admission felt anticlimactic. This densely populated country has operated for months on the assumption that small “aerosolized” …

A new study proposes that language could change dramatically on long space trips. The people on the spacecraft could lose the ability to understand people on Earth. This scenario is of particular concern to potential “generation ships”. Given the mounting crises of 2020, wouldn’t it be nice to get on …

These parallels have led Dr. Timms to argue that koalas could serve as a “missing link” in the search for a human vaccine. “The koala is more than an elegant animal model,” he said. “It’s actually really useful for human studies.” An ancient curse No one knows how or when …

A ‘Holy Grail’ of astronomy is to provide a clear map of our galaxy, a perspective of Earth’s relationship to the physical universe where our solar system moves between two spiral arms on its outer edges of the Milky Way, about 27,000 light years from His opaque central disk. Beyond …

The Perseverance rover on Mars imagined by an artist. NASA / JPL-Caltech This story is part of Welcome to mars, our series exploring the red planet. NASA’s Perseverance rover hopes to answer our biggest burning question about the history of Mars: Did the red planet ever host life?? The dry …