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NASA’s TESS mission discovers a planet orbiting two suns

Posted on April 29, 2020June 24, 2025 by Gina Misra

When two stars orbit each other, it is called a binary star. In 2018, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Surveying Satellite (TESS) mission found…

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    How did we discover the first virus?

    Posted on April 23, 2020June 25, 2025 by Sciworthy

    As world news about the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold, society’s collective knowledge and interest in viruses has increased.…

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      What is COVID-19 and what we can do to prevent its spread?

      Posted on March 27, 2020October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

      Since December, 2019 a virus which causes the COVID-19 disease has been spreading, resulting in a global pandemic. While some questions…

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        How effective are travel restrictions and social distancing?

        Posted on March 26, 2020October 24, 2022 by Erica Curles

        Reality now matches what was predicted. According to models, travel restrictions alone would only delay the epidemic status of COVID-19. But…

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          How would we know if COVID-19 came from a lab?

          Posted on March 25, 2020October 24, 2022 by Gina Misra

          A group of researchers gathered evidence from previous studies and, using what is known about the virus structure, made the case that the…

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            Protection by disinfection: best ways to sanitize surfaces from the coronavirus family

            Posted on March 24, 2020December 5, 2023 by Sciworthy

            What are the best ways to sanitize various surfaces from coronaviruses? A team of researchers reviewed 22 studies to better understand the…

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              Looking Back on Dyson Spheres

              Posted on March 20, 2020October 24, 2022 by GrahamLau

              It might be likely that civilizations eventually develop large spherical shells that can catch all of the light emitted from their stars -…

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                A glow-in-the-dark protein called luciferase improves medical diagnostics

                Posted on March 17, 2020June 24, 2025 by Sciworthy

                A smaller version of the enzyme that allows fireflies and jellyfish to glow naturally is now being used in medical diagnostics.

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                  How long will it take to contain COVID-19?

                  Posted on March 17, 2020October 24, 2022 by Gina Misra

                  Computer models are handy tools to figure out how well our public health interventions might work in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic…

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                    What are the triggers for dangerous landslides?

                    Posted on March 9, 2020June 25, 2025 by Hunter Dulay

                    In a paper published in Nature last month, researchers found that there is a greater risk of landslides after earthquakes, especially…

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