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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that the country’s first at-home COVID-19 self-testing kit has been approved by the agency. Results from said kit arrives in around 30 minutes, the FDA said in a statement posted to their website. “In 30 minutes or less, the results can be read directly from the test unit’s light-up […]
Since the first Asian giant hornets appeared in the US, scientists have been working double-time to track them to their source and wipe them out. The so-called “murder hornets” are the largest species of hornet in the world and could wreak havoc on local ecosystems. After a few failed attempts to track captured hornets back […]
In a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from McGill University, York University, and the Indian Institute of Science Education detail the fascinating discoveries that have been made about one “lava planet” in particular. Named K2-141b, this exoplanet is about half the size of Earth, per NBC News. The exoplanet was initially […]
Astronomers have deduced that a series of short, powerful radio waves received from space earlier this year are actually coming from within our own galaxy. According to three papers published in Nature, powerful blasts of radio waves from space recorded in April came from an object within the Milky Way. Known as fast radio bursts, or FRBs, […]
The coronavirus has dramatically changed the world’s way of life. One German study has offered a light at the end of the tunnel for concertgoers. The New York Times reported on Tuesday that a team at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg published a study claiming that the risk of spreading COVID-19 during an indoor concert is “low […]
A new report from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy indicates that a 1,000-foot-wide asteroid called Apophis may pass very close to Earth in 2068. While tracking the asteroid, which is named after the Egyptian god of chaos, scientists found it has sped up due to an orbital process called the Yarkovsky effect. “The new […]
Jaden Smith salutes Nikola Tesla in the newly released MSFTSrep collection. On Tuesday, the multihyphenate dropped the fall/winter 2020 range inspired by the inventor/engineer’s life and work. There’s 22 unisex pieces include references to some of Tesla’s most notable projects—such as the earthquake generator and death ray—and embodies one of his most famous quotes: “If you want to find […]
NASA confirmed its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully touched down on Bennu—a carbonaceous asteroid located about 200 million miles from Earth. The agency shared video of the spacecraft’s touch-and-go operation, in which it briefly landed on the astroid to swipe rocks and dust that are billions of years old. NASA says those samples, which are expected to be delivered to Earth in […]
On a campaign call on Monday, Donald Trump appeared to indicate that America is ready to move on from the coronavirus, and that Dr. Anthony Fauci is a “disaster.” CNN reports that Trump sounded frustrated on the call, seemingly brushing off the virus that he contracted earlier this month. America has over 8 million confirmed cases of […]
As if 2020 needed anymore regrettable recognition, a new study has determined that last month was the hottest September ever, besting the previous high, which was set just last year, the New York Times reports. The Copernicus Climate Change Service found that last month topped the average for September 2019 by 0.05 degrees Celsius. Another organization known […]
