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SOFIA discovers water on sunlit surface of moon

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NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. This discovery indicates...

Study uncovers why bats excel as viral reservoirs without getting sick

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Bats act as reservoirs of numerous zoonotic viruses, including SARS-CoV, MERS CoV, Ebola virus and—most likely—SARS-CoV-2, the pathogen behind the ongoing pandemic. However, the...

Drug-resistant hospital bacteria persist even after deep cleaning

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Scientists have used genome sequencing to reveal the extent to which a drug-resistant gastrointestinal bacterium can spread within a hospital, highlighting the challenge hospitals...

Globalized economy making water, energy and land insecurity worse

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The first large-scale study of the risks that countries face from dependence on water, energy and land resources has found that globalisation may be...

Metal deposits from Chinese coal plants end up in the Pacific...

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Emissions from coal-fired power plants in China are fertilizing the North Pacific Ocean with a metal nutrient important for marine life, according to new...

New study details atmosphere on ‘hot Neptune’ 260 light years away...

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A team led by an astronomer from the University of Kansas has crunched data from NASA's TESS and Spitzer space telescopes to portray for...

Tools made by some of North America’s earliest inhabitants were made...

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There is much debate surrounding the age of the Clovis—a prehistoric culture named for stone tools found near Clovis, New Mexico in the early...

Coastal permafrost more susceptible to climate change than previously thought

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If you flew from the sea towards the land in the north slope of Alaska, you would cross from the water, over a narrow...

Large tides may have been a key factor in the evolution...

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Pioneering research, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, into ancient tides during the Late Silurian—Devonian periods (420 million years ago—380 million years ago),...

Time crystals lead researchers to future computational work

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Time crystals sound like something out of science fiction, but they may be the next major leap in quantum network research. A team based...

Endangered vaquita remain genetically healthy even in low numbers, new analysis...

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The critically endangered vaquita has survived in low numbers in its native Gulf of California for hundreds of thousands of years, a new genetic...