In a very detailed survey of the southern sky using radio waves, astronomers have mapped millions of previously unknown galaxies outside the galaxy. The Rapid ASKAP Continuous Survey (or RACS) has firmly placed CSIRO’s Australian SKA Pathfinder Radio Telescope (ASKAP) on the international astronomy map. While past surveys have taken …
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Earth, with its convincingly familiar continents, arranged in a reliable configuration that you know and love, does not always look like it does today. The masses of its land, once closed together in the supercontinent, have broken and broken and drifted away from each other, and have come together again …
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Firefighters continue to pursue a wildfire in California that destroyed homes and forced people to flee. The Lake Fire, burning at Lake Hughes north of Los Angeles, was 12% as of Saturday morning and was 14,714 acres, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The fire destroyed at least …
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New research suggests that the antibodies that the immune system makes to fight the new coronavirus may last only a few months in people with mild illnesses, but that doesn’t mean that protection has also disappeared or that it won’t be possible to develop an effective vaccine. “Infection with this …
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LOS ANGELES – The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Los Angeles County reached its highest level over the weekend since the pandemic began, as 15 children were diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening inflammatory syndrome related to the virus . The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health registered 2,216 …
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