Healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities should be in the lead when the first doses of COVID-19 vaccines become available in the United…
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Climate change could turn some ticks into pacifiers for humans instead of canines. At temperatures around 38 ° C (100 ° Fahrenheit), some brown dog…
Hot blue stars ejected from their cradle may explain a mysterious ultraviolet glow that surrounds the disks of many spiral galaxies. A new computer simulation…
Astrophysicist Miguel Montargès has a clear memory of the time when stars became real places for him. He was 7 or 8 years old, looking…
As coronavirus cases increase in the United States and around the world, scientists are finding evidence that the immunity for those who have had COVID-19…
A hungry brain craves food. A lone brain longs for people. After spending a day completely isolated from anyone else, people’s brains were animated at…
Isaac Newton's seventeenth-century book, the Principia, gave the famous English scientist a reputation: "Here goes the man who wrote a book that neither he nor…
The question of whether dietary supplements can help fight coronavirus reveals an essential tension between what people want and what we have. What we want…
Pfizer is running to get approval for its COVID-19 vaccine, requesting emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Nov. 20. But…
The days of Arecibo are done. After failing two support cables in recent months, the 305-meter-wide dish of the radio observatory is damaged unrepaired, the…