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Watch a bright fireball explode over the Tasman Sea (video)
Live Science - 21 Nov 2020 18:30
A bright green meteor streaked across the southern coast of Tasmania, Australia, and researchers caught the fireball on camera as it broke up over the ocean.
From lab to industry? Ideally ordered porous titania films, made at scale
EurekAlert! - 21 Nov 2020 09:00
(Tokyo Metropolitan University) Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have realized high-throughput production of thin, ordered through-hole membranes of titanium dioxide. Titania layers were grown using anodiza...
Altered 'Coat' Disguises Fatal Brain Virus From Neutralizing Antibodies
Neuroscience News - 21 Nov 2020 03:15
Genetic mutations in the capsid of JCPyV may allow virus to escape antibodies.
This Week's Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 21)
Singularity Hub - 21 Nov 2020 19:00
HEALTH Larry Brilliant Says We’ll Beat Covid--After We Go Through Hell Steven Levy | Wired “The epidemiologist calls it ‘the best of times and the worst of times,’ as good news on vaccines and testing coincides w...
Ultrasound captures worms squirming in a man's stomach
Live Science - 21 Nov 2020 16:30
Doctors observed a "tubular ... structure that moved with a curling motion" inside his stomach.
Why do some animal sleep so much?
Live Science - 21 Nov 2020 16:00
Body size and diet might impact how much sleep mammals need.
Accelerator makes cross-country trek to enable laser upgrade
Phys.org - 21 Nov 2020 14:21
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has shipped the final new section of accelerator that it has built for an upgrade of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). The secti...