Despite conflicting data, the highly anticipated results will make the treatment a standard of care in the United States | Continue reading
Originally published in April 1856 | Continue reading
Individual differences in genetic makeup may explain our susceptibility to the new coronavirus and the severity of the disease it causes | Continue reading
Proposed cuts could end decades of U.S. leadership in exploring that world | Continue reading
The supersensitive system can also glean clues about health | Continue reading
Wild cats kill more animals than do domestics, but pet cats kill many more animals as do similarly-sized wild predators in a small area. | Continue reading
Exercise like walking, swimming, and even dancing have been shown to be good for your memory, but the optimal intensity of that exercise has been unclear... until now | Continue reading
Resilience measures to deal with flooding and other climate impacts must be balanced with issues like affordable housing | Continue reading
Originally published in January 1909 | Continue reading
A hotter planet could change the relationship among infectious agents, their hosts and the human body’s defense mechanisms | Continue reading
Amyloid, the leading target for dementia therapy, faces skepticism after drug failures | Continue reading
Candidates are speeding toward human trials | Continue reading
Here are a few brief reports about science and technology from around the planet, including one about what the eruption of Mount Vesuvius might have done to one ill-fated resident of Herculaneum. | Continue reading
Because high-end N95 masks are scarce, hospitals and other medical centers are using less protective surgical masks | Continue reading
Extreme heat is deadly to many of the same populations that are most vulnerable to COVID-19 | Continue reading
Hero worship alone doesn’t protect frontline clinicians from distress | Continue reading
Originally published in December 1958 | Continue reading
With politicians touting the potential benefits of malaria drugs to fight COVID-19, some people are turning away from clinical trials of other therapies | Continue reading
Clinical trials have begun to test drugs that counter toxic molecular webs linked to lung distress | Continue reading
Recent epidemics provide clues to ways the current crisis could stop | Continue reading
Recent epidemics provide clues to ways the current crisis could stop | Continue reading
Guest host Wayt Gibbs talks with Jason Wright, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University's Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds about what's known as the Fermi Paradox: in a universe of trillions of planets, where is everybody? | Continue reading
Expanding buyout programs would be more cost-effective than other measures, such as elevating houses or flood-proofing basements | Continue reading
Originally published in July 1898 | Continue reading
Circling hundreds of miles above the surface of our big blue marble for 30 years, I’ve had a remarkable view of the universe. I am the Hubble Space Telescope, and I have a birthday wish for everyone out there listening while I watch the heavens. | Continue reading
Pygmies and wildlife coexisted for millennia—until conservation coupled with extractive industries arrived | Continue reading
Three decades into the life of the world’s most revered orbital observatory, Ken Sembach, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, reflects on its future | Continue reading
Dressing material uses carbon nanofibers to aid healing | Continue reading
The new National Hurricane Center maps will show the expected depth of storm surge from tropical systems | Continue reading
Health journalist Judy Foreman talks about her new book Exercise Is Medicine: How Physical Activity Boosts Health and Slows Aging | Continue reading
The answer lies in what sectors of the economy have shut down and expectations of recovery later in the year | Continue reading
LabCorp’s Pixel kits rely on self-swabbing and mailing samples, and they have yet to be scaled up for widespread use | Continue reading
Compassionate use of experimental medicine needs to coexist with scientific rigor to help patients, researchers write in the journal Science | Continue reading
Originally published in April 1906 | Continue reading
Technologies such as PCR, serological assays and rapid diagnostics help us understand the spread of COVID-19. But how do they do so? | Continue reading
Centimeter-scale foldable buildings blocks may lead to industrial applications | Continue reading
Glucose metabolism plays a key role in the cytokine storm seen in influenza, and the link could have potential implications for novel coronavirus infections | Continue reading
Glucose metabolism plays a key role in the cytokine storm seen in influenza, and the link could have potential implications for novel coronavirus infections | Continue reading
Pathologists are starting to get a closer look at the damage that COVID-19 does to the body by carefully examining the internal organs of people who have died from the novel coronavirus. | Continue reading
Though air travel demand has plummeted, federal regulations have required airlines to maintain flights | Continue reading
New evidence from neutrinos points to one of several theories about why the cosmos is made of matter and not antimatter | Continue reading
Originally published in March 1951 | Continue reading
A new book captures the pioneering, propaganda-infused visions of mid-20th-century Soviet space exploration | Continue reading
An inexpensive assay based on the technique can provide yes or no answers in under an hour—perhaps even in the home soon | Continue reading
With no time to make treatments from scratch, researchers search for existing compounds that deflect harm | Continue reading