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• L.A. County Public Health Reports Big Daily Case Totals Drop, As UCLA Says It Will Extend Remote Learning Period - Deadline

  08-01-2022 23:42 via news.google.com
  
  L.A. County Public Health Reports Big Daily Case Totals Drop, As UCLA Says It Will Extend Remote Learning Period  DeadlineSan Diego County's COVID Hospitalizations Increase to 943, 169 in ICU  Times of San DiegoAs omicron variant drives spike in COVID-19 infections, L.A. County hits record weekly case numbers  KTLA Los AngelesView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• A Wolf Awakens in the Galápagos Islands at Night

  08-01-2022 23:32 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The glow of a volcanic eruption in the Galápagos Islands was captured by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP...
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• Tangled Messages: Tracing the Brain’s Neural Circuits to Chemotherapy’s “Constellation of Side Effects”

  08-01-2022 22:42 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Tim Cope and Nick Housley unravel the neural pathways behind complex sensory and motor side effects of chemotherapy. Severe and persistent disability often undermines the...
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• Space telescope's 'golden eye' opens, last major hurdle

  08-01-2022 22:01 via abcnews.go.com
  
  NASA's new space telescope has opened its gold-plated, flower-shaped mirror, the largest and most sensitive ever launched
  
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• Ancient Air Bubbles Trapped in Antarctic Ice Point to Cause of Oxygen Decline

  08-01-2022 21:52 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Glacial erosion likely caused atmospheric oxygen levels to dip over past 800,000 years. An unknown culprit has been removing oxygen from our atmosphere for at...
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• Sending Life to the Stars: Scientists Contemplate Launching Tiny Lifeforms Into Interstellar Space

  08-01-2022 20:37 via scitechdaily.com
  
  No longer solely in the realm of science fiction, the possibility of interstellar travel has appeared, tantalizingly, on the horizon. Although we may not see...
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  08-01-2022 20:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
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• Cold Case File: Mysterious Deaths in the Arctic

  08-01-2022 19:41 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Through the use of remotely sensed data, scientists were able to understand the mysterious deaths of caribou in Canada and reindeer in the Bering Sea...
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• For The First Time, We've Seen a Red Giant Star Transition Into a Supernova - ScienceAlert

  08-01-2022 19:02 via news.google.com
  
  For The First Time, We've Seen a Red Giant Star Transition Into a Supernova  ScienceAlert'Final Moments of Their Lives' : Astronomers Observe Massive Star's Explosion  Big Island NowAstronomers catch the destruction of a red supergiant star in real time  Digital TrendsWhat We Learned From a Dead Star Erupting With The Fire And Fury of 100,000 Suns  ScienceAlertAmazed scientists watched a giant star explode for the first time  MashableView Full Co
  
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• Omicron fuels unprecedented spike in COVID-19 cases | TheHill - The Hill

  08-01-2022 18:23 via news.google.com
  Omicron fuels unprecedented spike in COVID-19 cases | TheHill  The HillOmicron’s spread drives the global daily average of known new cases past a staggering 2 million.  The New York Times‘So huge and quick’: World passes 300 million COVID cases as Omicron breaks records  The Times of IsraelView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Using Artificial Intelligence To See the Plasma Edge of Fusion Experiments in New Ways

  08-01-2022 17:36 via scitechdaily.com
  
  MIT researchers are testing a simplified turbulence theory’s ability to model complex plasma phenomena using a novel machine-learning technique. To make fusion energy a viable...
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• We Asked a NASA Scientist: Why Can You See the Moon During the Day? [Video]

  08-01-2022 16:26 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Why can you see the Moon during the day? Easy, because it’s there! It may seem odd to look up at the daytime sky and...
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• NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Has Debris Obstructing Bit Carousel After Latest Sample Collection

  08-01-2022 15:44 via scitechdaily.com
  
  On Wednesday, December 29 (sol 306) Perseverance successfully cored and extracted a sample from a Mars rock. Data downlinked after the sampling indicates that coring...
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• CES 2022: 5 takeaways from the giant tech trade show

  08-01-2022 15:36 via cnn.com
  
  CES, the closely-watched annual consumer electronics show, looked drastically different this year.
  
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• CES 2022: 5 takeaways from the giant tech trade show - CNN

  08-01-2022 15:17 via news.google.com
  
  CES 2022: 5 takeaways from the giant tech trade show  CNNCES gadget show turnout falls more than 70% thanks to COVID  Fox BusinessTech Time: Tech products to watch out for  Click On Detroit | Local 4 | WDIV5 booths that caught eyes at CES 2022  Las Vegas Review-JournalCES 2022 gave us a peek at our foldable laptop future – and I can’t wait  Tom's GuideView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• China's Yutu 2 Finally Uncovers the Reality Behind the 'Mystery Hut' on the Moon - Interesting Engineering

  08-01-2022 15:07 via news.google.com
  
  China's Yutu 2 Finally Uncovers the Reality Behind the 'Mystery Hut' on the Moon  Interesting EngineeringMoon Cube Mystery: Chinese Rover Finds It's Just a Rock  Yahoo NewsMystery of the 'hut' spotted on the far side of the moon is finally solved  The US SunLander and rover of China's Chang'e 4 probe completes 1,003.9 metres of travel on far side of moon  Economic Times'Mystery house' on dark side of the moon is just a rabbit-shaped rock  Newshub
  
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• Magnetic Surprise Revealed in “Magic-Angle” Graphene – Potential Quantum Computing Applications

  08-01-2022 15:05 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Magnets and superconductors don’t normally get along, but a new study shows that ‘magic-angle’ graphene is capable of producing both superconductivity and ferromagnetism, which could...
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• Hubble Lends a Helping Hand to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

  08-01-2022 14:25 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Far above rain clouds, light pollution, and atmospheric distortion, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has a clear view of the universe. It has shown us distant...
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• A Crabs-Eye View of the Ancient World – Unusually Large Optical Features on 95-Million-Year-Old Crab Fossil

  08-01-2022 13:43 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Their legs may get more attention, but a new study says a crab’s eyes have much to offer, too — at least scientifically. Writing in...
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• Predator Interactions Chiefly Determine Where Photosynthesizing Prochlorococcus Organisms Thrive

  08-01-2022 13:03 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New findings may help researchers hone predictions for where phytoplankton will migrate with climate change. Prochlorococcus are the smallest and most abundant photosynthesizing organisms on...
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• Misophonia: Supersensitive Brain Connection Causes Hatred of Noises

  08-01-2022 11:37 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A supersensitized brain connection has been identified in people who suffer from misophonia, an extreme reaction to “trigger” sounds. For the first time, researchers led...
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• NASA Mars Perseverance Rover: Auld Lang Séítah

  08-01-2022 10:49 via scitechdaily.com
  
  While many reflect on the past and bid it farewell, there’s a lot of exciting science to come in the next year. While many were...
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• What Decriminalizing All Drugs Means for Oregon

  08-01-2022 07:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Oregon ditches jail time for those caught using hard drugs. Are fines and treatment referrals a better system?
  
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• Webb Space Telescope: First of Two Primary Mirror Wings Unfolds

  08-01-2022 06:23 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Webb’s iconic primary mirror is taking its final shape. Today, the first of two primary mirror wings, or side panels, was deployed and latched successfully....
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• Molecular Device Turns Invisible Infrared Into Visible Light

  08-01-2022 05:16 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Researchers at EPFL, China, Spain and the Netherlands have built a micro-device that uses vibrating molecules to transform invisible mid-infrared light into visible light. The...
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• How Do Volcanoes Form? Scientists Find Surprisingly Cool “Hotspots” Under Earth’s Crust

  08-01-2022 03:10 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The findings suggest current theories of how some volcanoes form may be too simple. The hotspots that created volcanic islands such as those of Hawaii,...
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• James Webb Space Telescope Primary Mirror Deployment Has Begun

  08-01-2022 02:52 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Engineers have begun the final stage of Webb’s major structural deployments: the unfolding of its two primary mirror wings. These side panels, which were folded...
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• Women discover Apple AirTags allegedly being used to track them

  08-01-2022 02:40 via nbcnews.com
  Apple AirTags are meant to be used to find your lost keys or other items but they’re also allegedly being used to track people without their knowledge. A Sports Illustrated model says she was allegedly tracked on her way home after she claims someone planted an AirTag on her at a bar. NBC News’ Vaughn Hillyard explains.
  
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• How To Weigh a Quasar: Directly Measuring Masses of Supermassive Black Holes

  08-01-2022 00:42 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Testing a new, direct method for determining the masses of supermassive black holes. Astronomers of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have, for the first...
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• Tallest Galapagos volcano erupts, spewing lava, ash

  08-01-2022 00:37 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The tallest mountain in the Galapagos islands is erupting, spewing lava down its flanks and clouds of ash over the Pacific Ocean
  
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