“The biological implications [of identifying a resistance gene] are important because it will provide one more piece in the assembly of the puzzle of the pathogenesis of Covid,”

A series of new studies ... suggests that mRNA vaccines ... trigger the immune system to establish long-term protection against severe COVID-19 — protection that likely will last several years or even longer.

A new Covid variant detected in South Africa has made headlines around the world.

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Aside from being worth thousands or millions of dollars at auction, Einstein’s handwriting is a microcosm of his turbulent life.

By showing that even large objects can exhibit bizarre quantum behaviors, physicists hope to illuminate the mystery of quantum collapse, identify the quantum nature of gravity, and perhaps even make Schrödinger’s cat a reality.

It's all in the eyes! There is a surprising correlation between baseline pupil size and several measures of cognitive ability.

The ancient Egyptians left behind a plethora of papyri containing valuable written information but most of these have remained unpublished and unstudied.

Egg-shape has long attracted the attention of mathematicians, engineers, and biologists from an analytical point of view.

Mission would be viable if it doesn’t exceed four years, international research team concludes.

Some planets in the habitable zone are not good for life, but others outside it might be.

Astronomers have succeeded for the first time in quantifying the proton and electron components of cosmic rays in a supernova remnant.

Measuring distances to stuff in space is really, really hard.

New research suggests a more settled terminology for Martian aeolian landforms based on size and geomorphology.

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Hurricane Ida offers the latest reminder that we need to rapidly rebuild our systems to withstand increasingly extreme events.

Like individual bees working toward a common, greater goal, practitioners of agroecology tend have a positive multiplication effect in their territory.

Since renewable energy generation isn’t available all the time – it happens when the wind blows or the sun shines – storage is essential.

New “smart clothing” uses conductive nanotube thread to continuously monitor the heart.

Huge amounts of plastic ends up rivers and oceans every year, harming the environment and potentially also human health. But what if we could pull it out of water with the power of magnets?

You pay for Facebook with your privacy. Here’s how it keeps raising the price.

A simple model suggests that there’s no fast way to rid hands of virus-sized particles.

Take a look at your nails. They could give insight about possible health concerns.

The straight leg hip lift simultaneously activates hamstrings, glutes and core.

Polypharmacy — taking five or more meds at a time — leads to side effects, unnecessary hospitalizations and premature deaths. Researchers and pharmacists are seeking solutions to this serious public health problem that disproportionately affects older adults.

Eating 30-60 grams (15% of energy) of walnuts every day for two years lowered levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL, or ‘bad’) cholesterol and reduced the number of total LDL particles in elderly individuals.

Physical fitness is a powerful predictor of health outcomes.

Evidence has been building recently that supplementary feeding could disrupt a delicate ecological balance beyond our windowsills and gardens

High technology meets art in these colorized micrographs.

It was likely a top predator at the time, similar to what a killer whale is today.

Charting the fluctuations of the planet’s magnetic field using palaeomagnetism.

Only think of birds when they poop or migrate overhead? Well, think again. Numbering between 50 and 400 billion in the world, there are way more of them than there are of us.

As the continents’ frozen burden dissipates, the ground deforms — not only in the immediate area, but also in far-flung locations.

Legal and practical obstacles make it difficult to clean the burn pits and health-damaging chemicals that remain at military bases.

Harmful algal blooms...occur when colonies of algae — simple plants that live in the sea and freshwater — grow out of control and produce toxic or harmful effects on people, fish, shellfish, marine mammals and birds.

Food and water were thought to be the main ways humans are exposed to PFAS, but study points to risk of breathing them in

Here’s how the United Nations should harness science and technology to improve nutrition and safeguard the environment.

For almost 100 years, Sudbury’s community and environment were blanketed in sulfur dioxide and metals released from the smelting of nickel ore.

Changing climate will see a surge in extreme-sea-level events.

The fossil-fuel multinationals fund ‘thinktanks’ and ‘research institutes’. But it’s gullible public service broadcasters that give them credibility.

Unusually high temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico are “like stepping on the accelerator,” a scientist says

Carbon dioxide reductions are key, but the IPCC’s latest report highlights the benefits of making cuts to other greenhouse gases, too.

“Greenwashing” is too kind a term; this is more like careful sabotage.