US Deaths Normally Change Less Than 2% Each Year – In 2020 With COVID, They Rose a Staggering 22.9%

Black Americans experienced highest per capita excess death rates, while regional surges contributed to higher excess death rates from COVID-19 ...
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In Severe COVID-19, Cytokine “Hurricane” in Lung Attracts Damaging Inflammatory Cells

A cytokine “hurricane” centered in the lungs drives respiratory symptoms in patients with severe COVID-19, a new study by immunologists ...
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Exploring a New Material Class to Help Keep Pace With Moore’s Law

University of Virginia School of Engineering and Northwestern University researchers create a new polymer-based electrical insulation for circuits that could ...
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Earth Has a Hot New Neighbor: Discovery of a Nearby Exoplanet Suitable for Atmospheric Investigation

Artist’s impression of the surface of Gliese 486b. Credit: RenderArea Using both transit and radial velocity data, researchers discovered Gliese ...
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From Stardust to Pale Blue Dot: Carbon’s Intriguing Interstellar Journey to Earth

This is an artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk in which planets are forming. Credit: ...
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Mystery Condition Can Leave People Suddenly Paralyzed – Possible Link to microRNA Discovered

Researchers believe they may have discovered a possible cause of a mystery condition that can leave sufferers suddenly unable to ...
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Exploring Earth From Space: Global Easter Egg Hunt

With Easter right around the corner, we take a look at four egg-shaped buildings visible from space as captured by ...
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How to Train a Robot (Using Artificial Intelligence and Supercomputers)

Examples of 3D point clouds synthesized by the progressive conditional generative adversarial network (PCGAN) for an assortment of object classes. ...
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Crystals Reveal Early Humans in the Kalahari 105,000 Years Ago Were As Innovative as Their Coastal Neighbors

The archaeological site at a rock shelter in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert: More than 100,000 years ago, people used the ...
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NASA OSIRIS-REx’s Final Observation Run of Asteroid Bennu Before Returning to Earth

This artist’s concept shows the planned flight path of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during its final flyby of asteroid Bennu, which ...
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