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[ad_1] Courageous pioneers traveled unknown regions of the Canadian Rockies a century ago to take photos of the region and create the first topographic maps of the region. Fast forward to today and scientists are using these timeless images to understand how much the landscape has changed over the past 100 years. The team reproduced … Read more

[ad_1] Something very strange is happening over South America and the nearby Atlantic Ocean, and NASA is on the case. Meet the South Atlantic Anomaly, a strange breach in Earth’s growing and dividing magnetic field. It was there for decades, but over time the anomaly slowly changed. While you’ve never noticed that anything was wrong … Read more

[ad_1] Flushing a urinal causes an “alarming upward flow” of coronavirus-laden particles, a new study has found – prompting health experts to recommend wearing headgear in public toilets. Chinese researchers have found that COVID-19 particles from a flush urinal can shoot up to two feet in the air in less than 6 seconds – potentially … Read more

[ad_1] Mojtaba Edalatpour, member of the laboratory, shows the thermal diode developed by the Boreyko team. Credit: Virginia Tech Jonathan Boreyko, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has developed aircraft thermal management technology ready to be adapted to other fields. The research was published in Advanced functional materials August 18, 2020. Boreyko received a Young Investigator … Read more

[ad_1] Could there be a second sun in the solar system once? (Harvard) Our Sun may have already had a twin companion, astronomers have suggested – like Tattooine’s “binary” stars in Star Wars. Harvard researchers have said that another sun was present during the formation of the solar system and could explain features such as … Read more

[ad_1] This evolving weak point in the magnetic field, called the South Atlantic Anomaly, is being monitored by NASA, but the space agency has said it will not affect us here on Earth. The magnetic field protects us, acting as a shield against the solar wind – a flow of charged particles and radiation – … Read more

[ad_1] The artist’s conception of a potential solar companion, which theorists say was developed in the Sun’s birth cluster and later lost. If proven, the solar companion theory would give additional credibility to the theories that the Oort cloud formed as we see it today, and that planet nine was captured rather than formed in … Read more

[ad_1] Grace Hauck UNITED STATES TODAY Posted at 3:42 p.m. EDT Aug 18, 2020 Wearing a mask in public toilets should be mandatory during the pandemic, researchers say, as there is growing evidence that flushing the toilet – and now urinals – can release inhalable coronavirus particles in the air. The coronavirus can be found … Read more

[ad_1] A newly discovered car asteroid just flew the closest to Earth without touching our planet. On Sunday August 16, the asteroid, originally tagged ZTF0DxQ and now officially known to astronomers as 2020 HQ, plunged above Earth just 2,950 kilometers away. This gives 2020 HQ the title of the closest asteroid flyby ever on record … Read more