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Naval soldiers prepare to fire a gun salute during a burial at sea. This would be catastrophically… [+] unsafe in any region where the bullets could come down and land on a human. U.S. Navy photo / Kevin J. Steinberg. “What goes up, must come down,” is an old saying that remains true for any

TOPLINE Asked about face masks during a press junket for the upcoming Apple TV+ movie Greyhound, actor Tom Hanks didn’t hold back, calling “shame” on those who opt out of wearing the face coverings. Tom Hanks at the 2020 Academy Awards in February. AP Photo/Chris Pizzello KEY FACTS People magazine first reported the comments of

Doctors and other healthcare workers are taking to Twitter to show that their blood oxygen levels … [+] are completely normal while wearing masks. Getty As compulsory mask-wearing laws become more common across the U.S., in the midst of soaring case numbers in many states, people who simply don’t want to wear them are grasping

The simulated decay of a black hole not only results in the emission of radiation, but the decay of… [+] the central orbiting mass that keeps most objects stable. Black holes are not static objects, but rather change over time. the EU’s Communicate Science All throughout our galaxy, millions of black holes of a variety

Joseph DeAngelo, the Golden State Killer. ASSOCIATED PRESS Joseph DeAngelo has plead guilty to the murder of 13 people, the rape of around 50 women and committing burglaries in California during the 1970s and 80s. Commonly called the ‘Golden State Killer’, he was first arrested in April 2018 after detective work was combined with DNA

A young man on a road watching the Milky Way and lighting the road with a flash. Taken in A Veiga, … [+] Orense. Getty While the night sky is available all year long, many of us don’t often get to enjoy it. Between light pollution and weather patterns, most of the world lives under

The farther away we look, the closer in time we’re seeing towards the Big Bang. The latest… [+] record-holder for quasars comes from a time when the Universe was just 690 million years old. These ultra-distant cosmological probes also show us a Universe that contains dark matter and dark energy, but many questions remain unanswered

An individual of Ankylosaurus magniventris, a large armoured dinosaur species, witnesses the impact … [+] of an asteroid, falling on the Yucatán peninsula 66 million years ago. Not even its large size and thick armour sheltered its kind from the violence of this cosmic disaster. Fabio Manucci Climate change killed the dinosaurs, but what caused

The concepts of both solar panels that track the sun and double-sided solar panel arrays have existed independently before now, but researchers have looked at the benefits of combining them for the first time. A team from the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore lead by Carlos Rodríguez-Gallegos discovered that found that panels with photovoltaic

As captured just this year from Mars’s surface, eclipses of Phobos (L) and Deimos (R) can lead to… [+] spectacular annular, but not total, solar eclipses. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill In our Solar System, any planet with moons has a chance for a solar eclipse. Solar eclipses are possible on Earth, and occur whenever the Moon

In November 2019, the World Health Organisation’s regional office for Europe published a report showing that the arts have a beneficial effect on health and well-being. A few months later, the report seemed all but forgotten when the COVID-19 pandemic took over everyone’s attention. But perhaps it’s time to look at it again, because it

TOPLINE The coronavirus pandemic hit a grim milestone Sunday morning, reaching 10 million confirmed cases worldwide, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, with the U.S. accounting for 25% of those cases—and no slowdown of infections in sight. A man wearing a mask walks past a banner reminding people of social distancing guidelines on Santa

Tibetan antelopes live at high elevations where the partial pressure of oxygen is roughly half that at sea level — how do they do this? An adult male Tibetan antelope or chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii) at Kekexili on the Qinghai-Tibet … [+] Plateau. Kekexili is located on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, and is the largest and

A spectacular scenery of milky way pictured during the dawn at Castle Cove on May 05, 2016 in Isle … [+] of Wight, England. Chad Powell / Barcroft Media via Getty Images / Barcroft Media via Getty Images Barcroft Media via Getty Images This December the planets Jupiter and Saturn will “kiss.” Planets appearing to

Systems biologist Marcin Wojewodzic, PhD, a researcher at the Cancer Registry of Norway, is calling for clinical trials to be carried out to test whether a bacteria eating virus could help treat patients with Covid-19. Outlining his ideas in a scientific journal, Wojewodzic says he thinks these viruses — called bacteriophages, or ‘phages’ for short

Nasal congestion or a runny nose is now on the CDC list of possible Covid-19 symptoms. (Photo: … [+] Getty) Getty New is a relative term. A planet that was formed a couple years ago could still be new. Sushi that was formed a couple years ago, not so much. So there are three “new”

WOMEN and MEN gears Getty We may not need another study to tell us what we already know but as long as implicit bias is still going unchecked, science will continue to validate the experience of women in the workplace by backing it with peer-reviewed, randomized, double-blind research. A new study out today looks at

As I type this on Friday morning, there is a high likelihood that you have already seen social media posts of “African dust” sunrises or sunsets. You have also likely seen references to Godzilla or friends saying “wow, this has never happened before, right?” To be clear, this dust outbreak is certainly an anomaly event

On Thursday, a massive cloud of Saharan dust invaded Cancun beaches and began to affect air quality … [+] in Florida, sparking warnings to people with respiratory illnesses to stay home. (Photo by ELIZABETH RUIZ/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images As Covid-19 coronavirus cases continue to surge in Florida, Texas, and other Southern

SpaceShipTwo Unity Second Glide Flight over Spaceport America Virgin Galactic Hot on the heels of news that Virgin Galactic would begin offering more space tourism activities for prospective customers, the company today completed a second successful test flight from their headquarters at Spaceport America in New Mexico. This is the second of two gliding test