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Betelgeuse, normally one of the brightest stars in the night sky, has dimmed 60% ahead of what some astronomers think of as a potentially imminent supernova. Betelgeuse is a red supergiant, usually the 10th brightest star in the sky, which is part of the Orion constellation. It is also one …

The leading US infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, will testify before the Senate about the government’s efforts for coronavirus on Tuesday, as cases continue to skyrocket and states across the country reverse their reopening efforts. It will do so as the White House insists that the outbreak has been …

The major neurons in layer II of the entorhinal cortex assist with memory and navigation and are among the most vulnerable to Alzheimer’s. The researchers generated a line of mice to study ECII neurons (highlighted with a green fluorescent protein). The researchers found that neurons are at such high risk …

SwRI is designing the CODEX instrument to use radioisotope dating techniques in situ to determine the age of rocks on other planets or moons. With five lasers and a mass spectrometer, the 20-inch cube instrument is designed to vaporize small pieces of rock and measure the elements present to determine …

On the last day of the Cretaceous period, a 7.5-mile-wide asteroid smashed into the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico and changed the arc of life on Earth. Sixty-six million years later, scientists have used supercomputers to recreate the devastation of that infamous impact in unprecedented detail. The models are helping to …