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Enlarge / / Stephen Hahn, Food and Drug Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), speaks during a hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on June 30, 2020, in Washington, DC . Covid-19 Coverage See more stories Any experimental COVID-19 vaccine that …

Black holes still provide some of the biggest, and superlative, mysteries out there. NASA / JPL-Caltech The fastest growing black hole known to humans is staggeringly large and apparently very hungry, according to new research by an international team of astronomers. “The mass of the black hole is also approximately …

Scientists can finally understand the mysterious transition behind a century-old chemistry experiment. The details of this transformation, in which the addition of electrons to a brilliant blue ammonia solution is transformed into a brilliant metallic bronze, have long eluded scientists. The new study reveals the subtle details of this change, …

Chemical intuition tells us that pressure tends to increase the coordination number and therefore generally creates an ordered structure that is especially true for perovskite-like compounds. However, in the recently discovered Y2CoIrO6, a double perovskite compound type A2B’B”O6, the researchers found an exceptional order of the B site induced by …

Ah, 2020. When we see it, there will be a word we will use to describe its endless barrage of grim news: unprecedented. Unprecedented forest fires. An unprecedented pandemic. Unprecedented levels of misinformation. Unprecedented locks. Unprecedented warming in the Arctic. Unprecedented economic devastation. It can be difficult to find positives …