U.S. scientists say that better data, testing and hospital preparedness are key to tackling the significant racial disparities | Continue reading
Prey fish still do not recognize lionfish as a threat. But selection pressure from the invaders is making them shy | Continue reading
Originally published in August 1906 | Continue reading
How it started, where it’s headed, and how scientists are fighting back | Continue reading
Using gravitational waves to approximate pi, physicists see no problem with Einstein’s theory | Continue reading
Assigning a cause of death is never straightforward, but data on excess deaths suggest coronavirus death tolls are likely an underestimate | Continue reading
Assigning a cause of death is never straightforward, but data on excess deaths suggest coronavirus death tolls are likely an underestimate | Continue reading
A new mathematical model predicts areas on a virus that might be especially vulnerable to disabling treatments | Continue reading
A new mathematical model predicts areas on a virus that might be especially vulnerable to disabling treatments | Continue reading
Originally published in April 1910 | Continue reading
Algorithms that can recognize people are too often biased or inaccurate—and they can easily invade our privacy | Continue reading
Blood clots and inflammation may underlie many of these complications | Continue reading
Blood clots and inflammation may underlie many of these complications | Continue reading
Those who doubt the planet is spherical often wind up subscribing to a host of other nonsensical notions | Continue reading
Think how much time we’d save if voice assistants always understood commands or questions the first time | Continue reading
The pests that have been laying waste to crops across Africa follow the winds, just like smoke | Continue reading
Scientists stimulated the brain using electrodes implanted on its surface | Continue reading
Originally published in June 1899 | Continue reading
There is no evidence that dogs can pass the virus to people, however | Continue reading
President Trump pointed out yesterday that if we didn't do any testing for the virus we would have very few cases, which forces us to confront the issues posed by testing in general. | Continue reading
Researchers have finally been able to pinpoint just how much impervious surfaces exacerbate flood levels | Continue reading
Food sharing is mainly found in adult animals as part of social bonding. But in a rarely observed behavior in birds, older barn owl chicks will share food with younger ones. | Continue reading
Food sharing is mainly found in adult animals as a part of social bonding. But in a rarely observed behavior in birds, older barn owl chicks will share food with younger ones. | Continue reading
With floods maps often outdated, augmented reality may help homeowners better understand the risk of inundation | Continue reading
The dwarf planet’s blue-tinged air may punch far above its weight | Continue reading
Originally published in January 1960 | Continue reading
Being immune was once a status symbol—and another way to segregate and divide humanity | Continue reading
A 120-nanometer virus makes face coverings de rigueur in places where they were once shunned or against the law | Continue reading
Different species are helping answer different questions about COVID-19 in humans in order to develop vaccines and treatments | Continue reading
Studies of social networks show that opposition to vaccines is small but far-reaching—and growing | Continue reading
The ways governments choose to bolster foundering economies could impact greenhouse gas emissions | Continue reading
Originally published in November 1855 | Continue reading
Toxic airborne particles can travel from lungs and nose to the brain, and exposure is linked to memory loss | Continue reading
According to terror management theory, people can have surprising reactions | Continue reading
Pooling diagnostic samples, and using a little math, lets more people get tested with fewer assays | Continue reading
Pooling diagnostic samples, and using a little math, lets more people get tested with fewer assays | Continue reading
Dehydrated blood that could keep at room temperature for years may be possible thanks to a sugar used to preserve donuts, and by tardigrades and brine shrimp to dry out and spring back with water. | Continue reading
The devices can image a battery’s magnetic field, spotting weaknesses and more accurate readings of charge levels | Continue reading
Researchers are still trying to understand what the deal is with kids and COVID-19 | Continue reading
Originally published in July 1948 | Continue reading
Coming out of lockdown, the country is relying on thousands of local case trackers and on software, once used to protect rhinoceroses, for disease surveillance | Continue reading
The virus that causes COVID-19 can persist in aerosol form, some studies suggest. But the potential for transmission depends on many factors, including infectiousness, dose and ventilation | Continue reading
The virus that causes COVID-19 can persist in aerosol form, some studies suggest. But the potential for transmission depends on many factors, including infectiousness, dose and ventilation | Continue reading
The discrepancy could be a statistical fluke—or a sign that physicists will need to revise the standard model of cosmology | Continue reading
To entice female lemurs, ring-tailed males rub wrist secretions, which include compounds we use in perfumes, onto their tails and then wave the tails near the gals. | Continue reading
Research begins to pick apart the mechanisms behind a deadly COVID-19 complication | Continue reading
The population exposed to one or more extreme weather events each year could more than double by mid-century | Continue reading