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How coronavirus differs from the Flu and SARS

VOA spoke to Andy Pekosz, a professor of molecular microbiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, about the coronavirus. His laboratory studies influenza and other respiratory viruses such as SARS,...

Future Sound “Computer” Using New Acoustic Smart Material Inspired by Shark Skin

USC researchers create smart materials that can mimic electrical devices by triggering different responses to sound. From the headphones we use to listen to our favorite songs or podcasts, to sonic camouflage employed...

Scientists detect biggest explosion since Big Bang

Scientists have detected evidence of a colossal explosion in space – five times bigger than anything observed before. The huge release of energy is thought to have emanated from a supermassive black...

Astronomy: Public funds for intelligent life search

His backing for the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (Seti) marks a sea change in attitudes to a field regarded until recently as fringe science. Dr Beasley made his comments at the American...

WhatsApp: You ‘officially’ belong to a family of 2 billion members

If you are on messaging app WhatsApp, you are officially part of a family that has 2 billion users, Facebook said on Wednesday. The WhatsApp has thus become the second social media...

Noise Reduction Algorithm: Speeds Graphene Mapping 50 Times Faster

Graphene is always raising high expectations, as a strong, ultrathin, two-dimensional material that could also be the basis for new components in information technology. There is a huge need for characterization of graphene devices....

ESA: Solar Orbiter will be the first spacecraft to study the sun’s polar zones

A new sungazing spacecraft has launched on a mission to chart the sun’s unexplored polar regions and to understand how our star creates and controls the vast bubble of plasma that envelops...

Christina Koch: Nasa astronaut sets new female space record

Nasa astronaut Christina Koch has completed the longest-ever single spaceflight by a woman. The Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Koch parachuted down to the grasslands of Kazakhstan at around 09:12 GMT. She spent...

Where’s Your Flying Car? Still Years From Reality

A model presented by Hyundai and Uber at the Consumer Electronics Show is said to hold the promise of aerial ride sharing at 180 miles an hour. Curtiss Autoplane. Fulton Airphibian. Taylor...

Manufacturers urge clarity on post-Brexit trade

he UK’s biggest manufacturing lobby groups are calling for more clarity as efforts to establish a new post-Brexit trading relationship gather pace. Yesterday, ahead of Britain’s departure from the EU on Friday,...

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