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Aside from the thousands of lives lost each month, the two share a crucial trait: the power to change—or be changed—into something unexpected, creating a difficult challenge. The first step in protecting oneself is just being aware of the danger. Fentanyl variants: the threat COVID-19 has developed variants like Omicron, which are effective in bypassing the body’s defenses. Fentanyl has variations as well—chemical structures that have a greater impact on the body, making it more lethal and addicting....

People with endocrine disorders may see their condition worsen as a result of COVID-19, according to a new review published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society. “We explored the previous SARS outbreak caused by the very similar virus SARS-CoV-1 to advise endocrinologists involved in the care of patients with COVID-19,” said Noel Pratheepan Somasundaram of the National Hospital of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka. “The virus that causes COVID-19 — SARS-CoV-2 — binds to the ACE2 receptor, a protein which is expressed in many tissues....

Massive galaxies found in the early universe needed a lot of cold gas — a store totaling as much as 100 billion times the mass of our sun. But where did these early, super-sized galaxies get that much cold gas when they were hemmed in by hotter surroundings? In a new study, astronomers led by the University of Iowa report direct, observational evidence of streams of cold gas they believe provisioned these early, massive galaxies....

The researchers used ultracold quantum gases to simulate a range of curved universes to explore various cosmological scenarios. They then compared these simulations with predictions from a quantum field theoretical model. The research findings were published in the journal Nature. The emergence of space and time on cosmic time scales from the Big Bang to the present is the subject of current research that can only be based on the observation of our single Universe....

Masks are an additional step to help slow the spread of COVID-19 when combined with every day preventive actions and social distancing in public settings. Masks should be washed regularly. It is important to always remove masks correctly and wash your hands after handling or touching a used mask. How to clean Washing machine You can include your mask with your regular laundry.Use regular laundry detergent and the warmest appropriate water setting for the cloth used to make the mask....

The data, plumbed by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System, show that those infected with SARS-CoV-2 are at an increased likelihood of developing kidney damage as well as chronic and end-stage kidney diseases. The study is published online September 1 in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Known as the silent killer, kidney dysfunction and disease tend to be free of pain and other symptoms — so much so that the National Kidney Foundation estimates that 90% of people with ailing kidneys don’t know it....

Using computational analysis, research team shows how ebselen binds to SARS CoV-2 main four protease. A team of researchers at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) at the University of Chicago used state-of-the-art computer simulations to identify a preexisting drug that could fast-track a solution to this worldwide pandemic. Their findings appear in the paper, “Molecular Characterization of Ebselen Binding Activity to SARS-CoV-2 Main 4 Protease,” which was published on August 14 in the journal Science Advances....

A new study has shown how SARS-CoV-2 may contribute to severe microvascular damage seen in severely-ill COVID-19 patients by transforming human heart vascular cells into inflammatory cells, without infecting them. The University of Bristol-led research, published in Clinical Science, indicates blocking antibodies could represent a new treatment to alleviate cardiovascular complications. In this new study, published in the journal Clinical Science, a multidisciplinary research team from the University’s Bristol Heart Institute sought to investigate how SARS-CoV-2 interacts with heart cells causing the myocardial damage seen in COVID-19 patients....

NASA’s Mars Curiosity has debuted the first recorded human voice that traveled from Earth to another planet and back. In spoken words radioed to the rover on Mars and back to NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) on Earth, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden noted the difficulty of landing a rover on Mars, congratulated NASA employees and the agency’s commercial and government partners on the successful landing of Curiosity earlier this month, and said curiosity is what drives humans to explore....

On April 11, 2021, a category three storm made a rare landfall in Western Australia, causing significant damage to coastal towns that are mostly ill-equipped for cyclones. Tropical Cyclone Seroja tore through 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) of land, knocking down trees and damaging buildings along its southward path. At least 15,000 homes lost power. Seroja has since weakened and moved offshore, but government agencies are now dealing with the damage....

The Department of Defense (DoD) maintains one of the largest computer networks in the world. The network follows DoD personnel across the globe collecting, transferring and processing information in forms as diverse as data warehouses, in-the-field mobile devices, and mission computers on board F-18s. This network is also constantly changing in size and shape as new missions are undertaken and new technology is deployed. In military terms, that means the cyber terrain of the DoD network is constantly shifting....

Healthcare providers must also learn to deal with parents hesitant to get their children vaccinated with the HPV vaccine. The study, to be published tomorrow (September 16, 2019) in Pediatrics, is the first to examine pediatricians’ and family physicians’ delivery practices for the vaccine since the new 2-dose schedule came out for adolescents 11 or 12 years old. “A physician recommendation is one of the most important factors in vaccine acceptance by parents,” said Allison Kempe, MD, MPH, lead author and professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine....

“Here we used a much more modern ‘demon’ – a fast digital voltmeter – to watch the temperature of an electron drawn at random from a warm pool of electrons. In doing so, we made it much colder than the pool it came from, and this corresponds to a high certainty of it being in the ‘0’ computational state,” says Professor Andrea Morello of UNSW, who led the team. “Quantum computers are only useful if they can reach the final result with a very low probability of errors....

An Earth-like planet orbiting an M dwarf — the most abundant type of star in the universe — appears to have no atmosphere at all. This dramatic discovery could cause a major shift in the search for life on other planets. Because M-dwarfs are so common, this discovery means that a large number of planets orbiting these stars may also lack atmospheres and therefore are unlikely to harbor living things....

The new SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope has been used to search for a brown dwarf expected to be orbiting the unusual double star V471 Tauri. SPHERE has given astronomers the best look so far at the surroundings of this intriguing object and they found — nothing. The surprising absence of this confidently predicted brown dwarf means that the conventional explanation for the odd behavior of V471 Tauri is wrong....

Saturn’s moon Titan is home to seas and lakes filled with liquid hydrocarbons, but what makes the depressions they lie in? A new study suggests that the moon’s surface dissolves in a similar process that creates sinkholes on Earth. Apart from Earth, Titan is the only body in the Solar System known to possess surface lakes and seas, as seen by the international Cassini mission. But at roughly –180°C, the surface of Titan is very cold and liquid methane and ethane, rather than water, dominate the ‘hydrological’ cycle....

Astronomers have discovered that two exoplanets are overlapping in the skies as they cross their star. The phenomenon is new enough that it doesn’t have a name, but it’s related to a syzygy, which is when a straight line configuration of three celestial bodies is formed in a gravitational system. Astronomers used data from the Kepler Space Telescope to probe KOI-94, a star seemingly orbited by four planets. A planet transiting in front of the star causes the light to momentarily dim, which is how Kepler finds exoplanets....

Many cultures going far back in history have different names for the twelve full moons experienced each year. Often the names of the full moons sound literally colorful, such as the name “Strawberry Supermoon,” where it is easy to imagine something like in the artist’s concept above. However, the names usually aren’t based on a color, but instead are often names for an activity that takes place at that time of year....

With her accomplishment from high school and her interest in space exploration and engineering, she sought out an internship with NASA whose values greatly align with hers. Artificial Intelligence Project Shah is currently a Senior at Mooresville High School in North Carolina and a former NASA virtual intern at the Goddard Space Flight Center. The project that Shah worked on during her internship was an Artificial Intelligence based science translator for the spread of hydrological information....

Climate change will raise risks of debris flows, flash floods. The western United States this century is facing a greatly heightened risk of heavy rains inundating areas that were recently scarred by wildfires, new research warns. Such events can cause significant destruction, including debris flows, mudslides, and flash floods, because the denuded landscape cannot easily contain the drenching moisture. A new study finds that, if society emits heat-trapping greenhouse gases at a high rate, the number of times that an extreme fire event is likely to be followed within one year by an extreme rainfall event will increase by more than eight times in the Pacific Northwest by the end of the century....