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getty It’s a fine line between sanity and insanity, or so it has been speculated. But what about personality? How big is the difference between desirable and undesirable personality traits? New research appearing in the European Journal of Psychological Assessment may have an answer. A team of Canadian and American psychologists designed a study to…

An illustration of the cosmic radiation background at various redshifts in the Universe. Note that ... [+] the CMB isn't just a surface that comes from one point, but rather is a bath of radiation that exists everywhere at once. Earth: NASA/BlueEarth; Milky Way: ESO/S. Brunier; CMB: NASA/WMAP The earliest signal we’ve ever directly detected…

Comet Neowise C/2020 F3 is still visible through binoculars. getty If you’re yet to find Comet NEOWISE with your own eyes you’re leaving it really late. Now well past its best, the icy intruder from the outer Solar System has been a sparkling sight in the night skies for the last month or so. However,…

Getty Images/iStockphoto Sunday’s breathtaking return of the American astronauts aboard Elon Musk’s crewed Dragon space capsule was a moment of great national pride. While space enthusiasts and dreamers around the world applauded, however, there were people taking bows – and credit – that frankly should not have been. If our political leadership on both sides…

TOPLINE The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation now predicts almost 300,000 Americans will die from the disease by Dec. 1, an 86% increase from the current death toll, and a 260% increase from the institute’s launch of its coronavirus model in March, showing how much the outbreak in the U.S. has…

TOPLINE As debates over when and how to safely reopen schools and businesses rage, a South Korean study published Thursday by JAMA Internal Medicine confirms what many health experts had assumed and feared, that coronavirus carriers who don't exhibit any symptoms are capable of spreading the virus. Portrait of health visitor and a senior man…

R-Zero claims its UV-C units can disinfect a room in minutes. R-Zero Systems In a post-pandemic future, after cleaning a hotel room, a member of the housekeeping staff moves his cart to the next room. Then he pushes a button on the tall, sleek device behind him, which then goes into action, disinfecting surfaces with…

Seismograms showing seismic waves arriving at various stations of the regional network of the ... [+] Geological Survey of Israel, diagram shared by @NadavWetzler. Nadav Wetzler/Geological Survey of Israel A massive explosion in the city of Beirut, Lebanon, killed more than 100 people and flattened nearby buildings, sending shock waves more than 250 kilometers (150…

TOPLINE NBC News reported Thursday that researchers delayed studying the effects of coronavirus patients receiving convalescent plasma in favor of hydroxychloroquine, the drug repeatedly promoted by President Trump that’s been found to have little benefit, but scientists are switching gears and ramping up their efforts to understand plasma. A medical researcher at the German Center…

genetic sequencing of the coronavirus that causes covid-19 disease. Viral pandemic worldwide. 3D ... [+] rendering getty As coronavirus surges continue to plague many parts of the world, it has become clear that the deadly disease doesn't impact us all equally. While some develop severe symptoms which can be fatal, others have no symptoms and…