A team of scientists is calling for more research into how sunlight inactivates SARS-CoV-2 after realizing there is a clear difference between recent theory and experimental results. Paolo Luzatto-Fagis, a mechanical engineer at UC Santa Barbara, and colleagues found that the virus became inactive eight times faster in experiments predicting …
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In less than three years, astronauts will return to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era. As part of the Artemis program, the purpose is not just to find and collect specimens on a mission crewed to the moon’s surface. At this time, there is also the …
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For decades, we have dreamed of visiting other star systems. There’s only one problem – it’s so far away from a conventional spaceflight, it would take thousands of years to reach even the nearest one. Physicists are not the kind of people who leave easily. Give them an impossible dream, …
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It would be an ugly experience to see our world through the eyes of a migratory bird. Something about their visual system allows them to ‘see’ our planet’s magnetic field, a clever trick of quantum physics and biochemistry that helps them find vast distances. Now, for the first time, scientists …
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If we are going to be better at energizing the planet with renewable energy, we need to be better at finding ways to store that energy effectively until energy is needed – and scientists have identified a specific material that can help us. Can give exactly. Materials are known as …
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