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Thursday th 30th of April 2020

The sun is less magnetically active than similar stars, and we don’t know why - 13:00

16th century skeletons suggest the slave trade brought some diseases to Mexico - 10:01

Wednesday th 29th of April 2020

Remdesivir is the first drug found to block the coronavirus - 16:11

To end social distancing, the U.S. must dramatically ramp up contact tracing - 10:46

A ‘crazy beast’ from the time of dinosaurs belongs to an obscure mammal group - 10:06

Spinosaurus fossil tail suggests dinosaurs were swimmers after all - 10:06

Vaping may damage the heart just as smoking does - 04:10

Tuesday th 28th of April 2020

Here’s why a hero shrew has the sturdiest spine of any mammal - 18:10

Scientists ‘strummed’ a molecule’s chemical bonds like guitar strings - 09:30

What coronavirus antibody tests tell us — and what they don’t - 05:10

Monday th 27th of April 2020

Some patients who survive COVID-19 may suffer lasting lung damage - 13:30

Skeletal damage hints some hunter-gatherer women fought in battles - 08:11

Deep caves are a rich source of dinosaur prints for this paleontologist - 05:10

Sunday th 26th of April 2020

It’s time to stop debating how to teach kids to read and follow the evidence - 06:10

Friday th 24th of April 2020

This is the most comprehensive map of the moon’s geology yet - 11:50

Readers ask about bat viruses and coronavirus - 09:30

Earthy funk lures tiny creatures to eat and spread bacterial spores - 07:11

A century ago, astronomy’s Great Debate foreshadowed today’s view of the universe - 05:10

Thursday th 23rd of April 2020

Drugs for high blood pressure don’t appear to make COVID-19 worse - 17:30

The ‘insect apocalypse’ is more complicated than it sounds - 17:11

Did heavy rain trigger Kilauea’s eruption? It’s complicated - 15:11

The first frog fossil from Antarctica has been found - 10:11

COVID-19 kills more men than women. The immune system may be why - 07:11

Insects’ extreme farming methods offer us lessons to learn and oddities to avoid - 05:10

Wednesday th 22nd of April 2020

A U.S. oil-producing region is leaking twice as much methane as once thought - 15:50

Plate tectonics may have started 400 million years earlier than we thought - 13:50

COVID-19 is hitting some patients with obesity particularly hard - 09:06

How much space does nature need? 30 percent of the planet may not be enough - 05:10

Tuesday th 21st of April 2020

More evidence hints that hydroxychloroquine doesn’t help treat COVID-19 - 17:30

‘The Idea of the Brain’ explores the evolution of neuroscience - 10:11

High-speed gas collisions prevent star birth in galaxies’ bars - 08:50

Toxin-producing bacteria can make this newt deadly - 06:30

Monday th 20th of April 2020

Interstellar comet Borisov has an unexpected amount of carbon monoxide - 10:11

Unlike Earth, the gases in Venus’ atmosphere aren’t uniformly mixed - 10:11

Gravitational waves have revealed the first unevenly sized black hole pair - 05:10

Friday th 17th of April 2020

Here’s where things stand on COVID-19 tests in the U.S. - 16:30

Ancient recipes led scientists to a long-lost natural blue - 13:11

A weird stellar explosion may have caused the brightest supernova yet seen - 07:11

Why 6 feet may not be enough social distance to avoid COVID-19 - 05:10

Thursday th 16th of April 2020

Climate change made a southwestern U.S. drought one of the worst in 1,200 years - 13:10

Forecasters predict a very active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season - 12:30

New images of the sun reveal superfine threads of glowing plasma - 08:30

A star orbiting the Milky Way’s giant black hole confirms Einstein was right - 02:10

Wednesday th 15th of April 2020

COVID-19 may be most contagious one to two days before symptoms appear - 16:50

New quantum computers can operate at higher temperatures - 10:11

Dancing peacock spiders turned an arachnophobe into an arachnologist - 09:30

‘Spacefarers’ predicts how space colonization will happen - 08:11

Tuesday th 14th of April 2020

Stephen Wolfram’s hypergraph project aims for a fundamental theory of physics - 09:51

Here’s how the periodic table gets new elements - 08:20

Cold War nuclear test residue offers a clue to whale sharks’ ages - 05:20