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If umifenovir, a broad-spectrum antiviral, can fight COVID-19, then computer-designed synthetic routes could make it easy and cheap to produce. Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Robert F. ServiceAug. 7, … Read More
NJIT; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Rennes, France By Lucy HicksAug. 6, 2020 , 11:00 AM A new fossil reveals how a mysterious ancient insect captured its meals. The … Read More
Rox Middleton By Charlotte HartleyAug. 6, 2020 , 11:00 AM With their dazzling metallic hue, the blue fruits of the laurustinus shrub (Viburnum tinus), a flowering plant popular in gardens … Read More
A diver examines a rock pile thought to be an ancient navigational marker inside a 12,000-year-old ochre mine in Quintana Roo, Mexico. © CINDAQ.ORG By Michael PriceJul. 3, 2020 , … Read More
OneWeb plans to launch as many as 42,000 satellites to an orbit that could harm astronomy. NASA/Kim Shiflett By Daniel CleryJul. 3, 2020 , 4:32 PM When OneWeb filed for … Read More
Kelvin Droegemeier (center), director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, meeting with publishers in February about public access to journal articles White House Office of Science … Read More
Russian archaeologists in 1976 excavating the Ust’-Kyakhta-3 site on the banks of the Selenga River A. P. Okladnikov By Michael PriceMay. 20, 2020 , 11:10 AM A new study has … Read More
NOAA By Sid PerkinsMay. 12, 2020 , 11:15 AM Two small, guano-covered islands that peek above the waves in the central North Pacific Ocean are merely the tips of our … Read More
Two Shenandoah National Park employees assess the crown of a black birch tree as part of the park’s long-term forest monitoring program. NPS Photo/C. Harman By Gabriel PopkinMay. 12, 2020 … Read More
Judy Mikovits (right), seen here at her lab in Reno, Nevada, in 2011 with a graduate student, has made many unfounded claims about the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. David Calvert … Read More
