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Why one of the brightest stars in the sky mysteriously started to dim
Live Science - 20 Jun 2021 15:00
Astronomers may have solved the mystery of Betelgeuse's bizarre brightness drop.
Pregnant Women With Migraine at Higher Risk of Complications
Neuroscience News - 20 Jun 2021 22:31
Pregnant women with a history of migraines are at greater risk of both prenatal and postnatal complications. A new study found migraine sufferers are at increased risk of hyperlipidemia and gestational diabetes during pr...
Memory Helps Us Evaluate Situations on the Fly, Not Just Recall the Past
Neuroscience News - 20 Jun 2021 20:55
While commonly implicated in long-term memory, researchers report the hippocampus plays a critical role in short-term memory and decision making.
New technique allows for identification of potential drugs to fight resistant bacteria
Science Daily - 20 Jun 2021 18:42
Researchers have optimized a new technique that will allow scientists to evaluate how potential inhibitors work on antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This technique, called native state mass spectrometry, provides a quick wa...
Study evaluates potential causes of increased transmission in SARS-CoV-2 variants
Science Daily - 20 Jun 2021 18:42
Although two SARS-CoV-2 variants are associated with higher transmission, patients with these variants show no evidence of higher viral loads in their upper respiratory tracts compared to the control group, a new study f...
Each of These Microscopic Glass Beads Stores an Image Encoded on a Strand of DNA
Singularity Hub - 20 Jun 2021 18:00
Increasingly, civilization's information is stored digitally, and that storage is abundant and growing. We don’t bother deleting those seven high-definition videos of the ceiling or 20 blurry photos of a table corner t...
Is every spiderweb unique?
Live Science - 20 Jun 2021 15:00
How much does spiderweb construction vary between spiders?
HKU physics Ph.D. student obtained the Higgs mode via dimensional crossover in quantum magnets revealing importance of dimensions in many-body systems
EurekAlert! - 20 Jun 2021 08:00
(The University of Hong Kong) By combining numerical and analytic analyses, the research team successfully explained revealed the clear presence of the Higgs mode in the quasi-1D quantum magnetic systems. The results not...