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[ad_1] Jeremy Amias, Vice President, Americas, Standard Chartered New year, new opportunities Describing 2020 as a challenging year seems an understatement, to say the least. While US businesses started the year uncertain due to continuing tensions between China and the United States, a new set of totally unexpected challenges emerged …

[ad_1] On the same day that China collected lunar rocks on a groundbreaking space mission, a critical American telescope collapsed at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Built in 1963, the observatory was a beacon for US astronomical research, lasted through natural disasters, and inspired generations of Puerto Rican researchers. …

[ad_1] A huge radio telescope at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory, one of the largest in the world, collapsed on Tuesday after suffering severe damage since August, authorities said, after 57 years of astronomical discoveries. The telescope’s decaying 900-ton instrument platform, suspended by cables 450 feet (137 meters) above a 1,000-foot-wide …

[ad_1] What makes this telescope unique is its wide field of view that allows you to take panoramic photos of the sky in more detail than before. (Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where our goal is to cut through the science jargon and put the fun in. …

[ad_1] Deep on the campus of Riga Technical University, a team of researchers is searching for technology that will one day help prevent asteroids from hitting Earth. Very high precision chronoscopes built by hand in the laboratory of Latvian startup Eventech are used today to track the movements of satellites. …

[ad_1] The Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), developed and operated by Australia’s national scientific agency, CSIRO, mapped approximately 3,000,000 galaxies in just 300 hours. This Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey is like a Google map of the universe where most of the millions of star-shaped point maps are distant galaxies. …

[ad_1] The historic Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has had a difficult year after a partial collapse in August. There have been two additional landslides and the telescope is scheduled for destruction soon. The telescope cables have failed and, more recently, a large platform fell from its perch high above …

[ad_1] Blood donations suggest COVID-19 was in the US last December A study in Clinical infectious diseases yesterday found that 1% of American blood donations in late last year and early 2020 contained antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, suggesting that the virus was present in the United States earlier than previously thought. …

[ad_1] Fortnite Epic Well, if you managed to slip into Fortnite’s big new event in time, you would once again be witnessing something unprecedented. The Galactus event came and went with players channeling Star Fox to defeat the giant bad boy that has been lurking on the Fortnite map for …

[ad_1] Google’s Deepmind stunned the world in 2016 when its AlphaGo program beat an elite human gamer on “Go.” For decades, scientists have been trying to figure out how to quickly predict the twisted and tangled shape of proteins and, from there, unravel a greater understanding of the machinery of …