NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collects significant amount of asteroid
Two days after touching down on asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission team received on Thursday, Oct. 22, images that confirm
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Humans are born with brains ‘prewired’ to see words: Study finds connections to language areas of the brain
Humans are born with a part of the brain that is prewired to be receptive to seeing words and letters,
Read moreALMA shows volcanic impact on Io’s atmosphere
New radio images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) show for the first time the direct effect of volcanic
Read moreTurbulent era sparked leap in human behavior, adaptability 320,000 years ago
For hundreds of thousands of years, early humans in the East African Rift Valley could expect certain things of their
Read moreNASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully touches asteroid
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm Tuesday, and in a first
Read moreHot-button words trigger conservatives and liberals differently: Brain scans reveal the vocabulary that drives neural polarization
How can the partisan divide be bridged when conservatives and liberals consume the same political content, yet interpret it through
Read moreGround-breaking discovery finally proves rain really can move mountains
A pioneering technique which captures precisely how mountains bend to the will of raindrops has helped to solve a long-standing
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Pinpointing the ‘silent’ mutations that gave the coronavirus an evolutionary edge: RNA folding may help explain how the coronavirus became so hard to stop after it spilled over from wildlife to humans
We know that the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 crisis lived harmlessly in bats and other wildlife before it jumped the
Read moreMagnetic fields on the moon are the remnant of an ancient core dynamo: Simulations show that alternative explanatory models such as asteroid impacts do not generate sufficiently large magnetic fields
Presently, the moon does not have an internal magnetic field as it can be observed on Earth. However, there are
Read moreReviving cells after a heart attack: Researchers unravel the healing mechanisms of extracellular vesicles and demonstrate their healing power on a heart-on-a-chip
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) — nanometer sized messengers that travel between cells to deliver cues and cargo — are promising tools
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