The presence of a state prison in a county was associated with 11% more COVID-19 cases through July 1, 2020, according to a new study…
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The anti-viral peptide is made up of three corkscrews (in green), which lock around the virus’s fusion protein (in orange) to prevent the virus from…
Nacre, or mother-of-pearl, found in red abalone and other mollusks, is extremely fracture-resistant. That’s one reason researchers are interested in the natural material, and why…
Kids were able to correctly identify emotions on faces displaying (from left) sadness, anger and fear even when they were covered by a surgical mask.…
Multilayer plastic materials are ubiquitous in food and medical supply packaging, particularly since layering polymers can give those films specific properties, like heat resistance or…
A high-power microscopic image of the skeleton from Turbinaria peltata shows a pattern of both ion-attachment (in blue) and nanoparticle attachment (in green) of new…
This microscopic, twisting spiral — which exhibits interesting, tunable superconductive properties — was “grown” by depositing sheets of two-dimensional material over a substrate curved slightly…
Massive Magellanic Cloud Halo Discovery Finally Explains Stream of Gas Swirling Around the Milky Way
A view of the gas in the Magellanic System as it would appear in the night sky. The Magellanic Corona covers the entire sky while…
The integrated solar flow battery device contains both a solar cell to convert sunlight into electricity and chemicals that can store the electricity for later…
Silicon carbide after irradiation, in which loose carbon atoms (green) move toward the boundary (dashed line) between grains of the crystalline ceramic. Credit: Images courtesy…
In a study published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists in the U.S. and Japan report that in the laboratory, cats…
Hurricane Harvey over North America in 2017 from GOES-16. GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite. Credit: UW-Madison SSEC In almost every region of the…
Taken with a long-wave infrared camera, this image of the same researchers in Kats’ lab shows distinct color variations across areas that are warmer (faces…
The researchers subjected their chemical soups to a form of selection by taking a small amount of material from one vial and placing it in…
The bigger the fish, in this instance a lake trout, the greater the accumulation of methylmercury in the filets of the fish. All five Great…