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Will Vodka Work? What You Need to Know About Using Hand Sanitiser Against Coronavirus
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Will Vodka Work? What You Need to Know About Using Hand Sanitiser Against Coronavirus
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Will Vodka Work? What You Need to Know About Using Hand Sanitiser Against Coronavirus
As concern about coronavirus grows, hand sanitizer is in high demand. Biologist Jeffrey Gardner explains why alcohol is a key ingredient in hand sanitizer, and why he doesn't recommend making your own supply at home.
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New Evidence Shows How COVID-19 Has Affected Global Air Pollution
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New Evidence Shows How COVID-19 Has Affected Global Air Pollution
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New Evidence Shows How COVID-19 Has Affected Global Air Pollution
The COVID-19 pandemic is getting more overwhelming by the day, with increasing lockdowns, a death toll of more than 7,000 people across the world, and a direct hit to the global economy.
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WHO Now Officially Recommends to Avoid Taking Ibuprofen For COVID-19 Symptoms
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WHO Now Officially Recommends to Avoid Taking Ibuprofen For COVID-19 Symptoms
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Updated: WHO Now Doesn't Recommend Avoiding Ibuprofen For COVID-19 Symptoms
Editor's note (19 March 2020): Since the publication of this article, the World Health Organization has updated its advice on the official Twitter account: "Based on currently available information, WHO does not recommend against the use of ibuprof
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This Ancient Fish Represents The Earliest Known Evolutionary Evidence of Fingers
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This Ancient Fish Represents The Earliest Known Evolutionary Evidence of Fingers
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This Ancient Fish Represents The Earliest Known Evolutionary Evidence of Fingers
The four-limbed animals of the world have several things in common. Spines. Bilateral symmetry. And most of us have (or, in the case of birds, had) five digits at the end of each of our four limbs.
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Brutally Hot Mercury Produces Ice Even Though It's The Closest Planet to The Sun
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Brutally Hot Mercury Produces Ice Even Though It's The Closest Planet to The Sun
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Brutally Hot Mercury Produces Ice Even Though It's The Closest Planet to The Sun
Mercury has a reputation, one largely informed by where it exists - closer to the Sun than any other planet in the Solar System. That unforgiving proximity means Mercury gets hot. Really hot.
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This Weird Shape Might Actually Be What Our Sun's Magnetic Bubble Looks Like
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This Weird Shape Might Actually Be What Our Sun's Magnetic Bubble Looks Like
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This Weird Shape Might Actually Be What Our Sun's Magnetic Bubble Looks Like
Every planet in our Solar System, including our own, is enclosed in a bubble of solar wind, emanating from our Sun at supersonic speeds.
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The Fragment of an Ancient Lost Continent Has Been Discovered Off The Coast of Canada
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The Fragment of an Ancient Lost Continent Has Been Discovered Off The Coast of Canada
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The Fragment of an Ancient Lost Continent Has Been Discovered Off The Coast of Canada
Scientists have uncovered a splintered remnant of Earth's continental crust from millions of years ago, embedded in the isolated wilderness of northern Canada.
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Lose Yourself in This Absolutely Gobsmacking Image of Valles Marineris on Mars
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Lose Yourself in This Absolutely Gobsmacking Image of Valles Marineris on Mars
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Lose Yourself in This Absolutely Gobsmacking Image of Valles Marineris on Mars
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) delivers once again! Using its advanced imaging instrument, the High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera, the orbiter captured a breathtaking image (shown below) of the plains north of Juventae Chasma
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The Atmosphere of Uranus Is Literally Leaking Gas Into Space
Poor old Uranus just can't seem to catch a break. Something already tipped the planet on its side, so its orbit is perpendicular to those of the other Solar System planets. It probably smells terrible. And now scientists have discovered that the at
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New Study of The Coronavirus 'Spike' Protein Could Help Explain Its Immense Spread
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New Study of The Coronavirus 'Spike' Protein Could Help Explain Its Immense Spread
When a new disease comes out of the woodwork, scientists across the world leap into action to try and find out what they can about it, hopefully providing new ways to help.
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New AI-Powered Blood Test Promises Easy Screening For Over 50 Types of Cancer
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New AI-Powered Blood Test Promises Easy Screening For Over 50 Types of Cancer
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New AI-Powered Blood Test Promises Easy Screening For Over 50 Types of Cancer
A new AI-powered blood test just proved capable of detecting 50 different types of cancers, including some that are particularly aggressive or elusive.
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73% of Americans Hospitalised With COVID-19 Had an Underlying Condition, Says CDC
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73% of Americans Hospitalised With COVID-19 Had an Underlying Condition, Says CDC
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73% of Americans Hospitalised With COVID-19 Had an Underlying Condition, Says CDC
Among US patients hospitalized with COVID-19, 73 percent had at least one underlying condition, according to a new report from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Scientists Have Unearthed Traces of an Ancient Rainforest In... Antarctica
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Scientists Have Unearthed Traces of an Ancient Rainforest In... Antarctica
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Scientists Have Unearthed Traces of an Ancient Rainforest In... Antarctica
Since time immemorial, Earth's poles have resembled frozen wastelands. Life can and does exist there, but there are sound reasons why humans and most other animals cling to the safety of more hospitable climates closer to the equator.
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Scientists Took Mentos And Coke to The Top of a Mountain, For Science
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Scientists Took Mentos And Coke to The Top of a Mountain, For Science
Adding pellets of Mentos mint candy to carbonated beverages has been a science fair staple for years. While most ten-year-olds can tell you why it spews up a geyser of foam, certain microscopic features of the reaction haven't been so easy to figur
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Scientists Discover Deep-Sea Bacteria Has a Metabolism Unlike Anything We've Seen Before
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Scientists Discover Deep-Sea Bacteria Has a Metabolism Unlike Anything We've Seen Before
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Scientists Discover Deep-Sea Bacteria Have a Metabolism Unlike Anything We've Seen Before
A curious kind of bacteria found on the floor of the deep ocean might have a metabolism unlike anything we've seen before.
To Make the Perfect Mirror, Physicists Confront the Mystery of Glass
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory can sense movements thousands of times tinier than the width of an atom partly because of the instrument’s near-perfect mirrors. The mirrors bounce laser beams back and forth down the arms of LIGO’s L-shaped detectors. Changes in the relative lengths of the arms reveal when a gravitational wave flutters past Earth, stretching and squeezing space-time.
They’re nothing like regular mirrors. In your bathroom mirror, light reflects off metal, which has glass in front of it merely for protection. But LIGO’s 100-kilowatt laser would fry any metal. Instead, its mirrors are made entirely of glass.
Sometimes a mirror that reflects 99.9999% of light isn’t good enough...The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory can sense movements thousands of times tinier than the width of an atom partly because of the instrument’s near-perfect mirrors. The mirrors bounce laser beams back and forth down the arms of LIGO’s L-shaped detectors. Changes in the relative lengths of the arms reveal when a gravitational wave flutters past Earth, stretching and squeezing space-time.
They’re nothing like regular mirrors. In your bathroom mirror, light reflects off metal, which has glass in front of it merely for protection. But LIGO’s 100-kilowatt laser would fry any metal. Instead, its mirrors are made entirely of glass.