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The World's Space Agencies Are on a Quest to Deflect an Asteroid
Singularity Hub - 27 Sep 2020 16:00
People have a bottomless appetite for all things space these days. Some space news is truly mind-blowing, like the first image of a black hole last year or this year's time lapse of said black hole's dancing shadow. Then...
We may finally know what life on Earth breathed before there was oxygen
Live Science - 27 Sep 2020 23:46
Billions of years ago, long before oxygen was readily available, the notorious poison arsenic could have been the compound that breathed new life into our planet.
Multiple Unapproved Drugs Found in "Brain Boosting" Supplements
Neuroscience News - 27 Sep 2020 21:55
Researchers identified five unapproved drugs in dangerous combinations and doses in over-the-counter cognitive enhancement drugs. Side effects of the unapproved drugs include increases and decreases in blood pressure, ag...
What membrane can do in dealing with radiation
EurekAlert! - 27 Sep 2020 06:00
(University of Science and Technology of China) USTC recently found that polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) can release acidic substance under γ radiation, whose amount is proportional to the rad...