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SpaceX Launches New Batch of Starlink Satellites, Loses Falcon 9 During Landing Attempt Things on Earth are getting a bit treacherous with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but SpaceX is still working on its plans for outer space. The company just completed its latest Starlink satellite deployment, bringing it tantalizingly close …

Scientists Develop Focus-Free Camera with Flat Lens A team of researchers from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and Oblate Optics, Inc. has created a camera that does not require focusing. The new flat lens could drastically reduce the weight, complexity and cost of cameras and other imaging systems, …

Scorching Heat May Help Mercury Manufacture Ice We all think of Mercury as a tremendously hot world, which it is, being the closest to the sun. However, it also has a surprising amount of ice for such a toasty little planet. Scientists have long puzzled over how all that ice …

SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Stable for Several Hours to Days in Aerosols and on Surfaces A novel human coronavirus that is now named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Wuhan, China, in 2019 and is now causing a pandemic. In a new study, a team of U.S. scientists analyzed …

This Website Tracks Coronavirus Outbreak in Real Time The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) that began in Wuhan, China continues to spread across the globe. Many countries have enacted measures aimed at slowing the spread, but health authorities say new infections are still on the rise. The numbers seem to change every …

ExoMars Mission Pushed Back to 2022 Due to COVID-19 Delays The ExoMars program, a joint effort between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia’s Roscosmos, has had its fair share of setbacks. One of the primary components of its first mission failed to deploy on Mars, and now the second …

Scientists Find Mysterious Praying Mantis Petroglyph in Iran An international team of archaeologists and entomologists has discovered and examined an ancient arthropod-like petroglyph at the Teymareh rock art site in central Iran. The ‘squatting mantis man’ petroglyph, located in Teymareh Region, Khomein County, Markazi Province, Iran. Scale bar – 10 …

New Report Highlights Potential Therapeutic Agents and Vaccines for COVID-19 Researchers from CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, have released a special report in which they provide an overview of previously published scientific information on potential therapeutic agents and vaccines for COVID-19, a respiratory illness caused by the …

Mercury’s Extreme Daytime Heat May Help It Make Its Polar Ice In 2011, NASA’s MESSENGER orbiter detected signals typical of glacial ice near the poles on Mercury. The ice was dingy and lurked in permanent shadows in numerous polar craters. According to new research led by Georgia Institute of Technology …

Study: SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Spreads Quickly, Sometimes Before People Have Symptoms An international team of scientists from the United States, France, China and Hong Kong was able to identify how quickly SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease, can spread, a factor that may help public health officials in their …