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Tue, 11 Jan 2022
Sugar-coated COVID-19 test strip takes advantage of coronavirus’ sweet tooth

Researchers design rapid sensing COVID-19 test to meet the challenge of tracking variants

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of California San Diego are taking advantage of the …

Tue, 11 Jan 2022
Climate change factors in the fossil record that accelerate mass extinction

Finding clues to the present in what happened 372 million years ago

The Late Devonian mass extinction — roughly 372 million years ago — was one of five mass extinctions in Earth’s history, with roughly 75% of all species disappearing over its course. It happened in two “pulses” spaced about 800,000 years apart, with most of the extinctions …