We were warned that this could happen. While millions stayed home last spring, looking for summer to rest from the virus, experts worried an even…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a treatment that could give children more time with a rare genetic disease that causes premature aging.…
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…
Leaf-cutting worker ants may appear helpless against an enemy soldier ant often of its size. But some of the smaller ants have a secret: their…
For tips on flirting using a mask, take notes from nature experts: male bats with wrinkled faces. The first video of a wrinkled-faced sexual encounter…
Early versions of the Bible describe Goliath, a former Philistine warrior better known as the loser of a fight with the future King David, as…
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…
A COVID-19 vaccine made by AstraZeneca and Oxford University appears to prevent disease and can reduce coronavirus transmission. In studies of more than 22,000 people…
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…