New blood tests for antibodies could show true scale of coronavirus pandemic

Large-scale testing of populations should reveal those who cleared virus without knowing they were infected | Continue reading


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Did an experimental drug help a U.S. coronavirus patient?

A California physician describes a recent use of a drug now in trials for COVID-19 | Continue reading


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Labs go quiet as researchers brace for long-term coronavirus disruptions

Fear of spreading COVID-19 puts studies on hold | Continue reading


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Scientists are leading Notre Dame’s restoration–and probing its mysteries

Researchers use cathedral’s stones, wood, and lead to learn about its history and the best way to repair it | Continue reading


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Fired scientist: ‘good people are being crushed’ by probes into Chinese ties

Former Moffitt immunologist fears collateral damage in fight against foreign influences | Continue reading


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U.S. hospitals confront the challenges of large-scale coronavirus testing

A microbiologist overseeing testing at a major Michigan hospital system laments preventable delays | Continue reading


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Chance discovery brings quantum computing with standard microchips a step closer

With only electric fields, researchers flip a single nucleus in a silicon chip | Continue reading


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Madagascar’s mysterious, lemur-eating cats started as ship stowaways

Ancestors of large forest cats likely hopped off Arabian trading ships more than a millennium ago | Continue reading


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Mutations can reveal how the coronavirus moves–but they’re easy to overinterpret

Real-time analysis of hundreds of viral genomes helps scientists understand how the virus is spreading | Continue reading


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‘Astounding new finds’ suggest ancient empire may be hiding in plain sight

Archaeologists puzzle out a clash of Mesoamerican cultures | Continue reading


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‘Thirdhand’ smoke can expose moviegoers to the emissions of up to 10 cigarettes

Toxins can enter smoke-free environments by clinging to clothing and skin | Continue reading


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Minimuscles let amputees control a robot hand with their minds

Approach could make manipulating a prosthesis more natural, precise, and reliable | Continue reading


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Electricity Turns Garbage into Graphene

Brief jolt converts almost any source of solid carbon into material behind high-strength plastic and flexible electronics | Continue reading


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China’s aggressive measures have slowed virus, may not work in other countries

Report from joint WHO-China mission takes detailed look at results of response in hardest hit country | Continue reading


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The only known animal that doesn’t need oxygen to survive

It’s still unclear how it gets energy | Continue reading


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New sense discovered in dog noses: the ability to detect heat

Sensory ability may help canines track their prey | Continue reading


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Farming gave us salmonella, ancient DNA suggests

But pigs didn’t give humans typhoid | Continue reading


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The United States badly bungled coronavirus testing–but things may soon improve

A faulty reagent in a test kit and bureaucratic hurdles have slowed testing for the virus that causes COVID-19 | Continue reading


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Coronavirus outbreak changes how scientists communicate

Preprint servers and journals are working overtime to keep up with a “firehose” of data | Continue reading


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Scientists say they’ve cracked the mystery of why whales migrate

Whales travel to the tropics to molt | Continue reading


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Do you like weird art? Blame your brain

A new algorithm predicts preferences based on how the brain values paintings | Continue reading


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High altitude genes could turn Himalayan wolves into a new species

Genetic analysis suggests they differ significantly from gray wolves | Continue reading


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Covid-19 – Scientist decries ‘completely chaotic’ condition on cruise ship Japan

Japanese government also slow to release epidemiological data about the Diamond Princess, critics say | Continue reading


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Is an Aboriginal tale of an ancient volcano the oldest story ever told?

Eruption 37,000 years ago may have sparked a legend about four giants | Continue reading


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Simple AI shortcuts speed up simulations by billions of times

With little training, neural networks create accurate emulators for physics, astronomy, and earth science | Continue reading


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Scientists racing to model the next moves of a coronavirus

The challenge of constructing models to understand and slow the growth of a frightening outbreak | Continue reading


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Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds

Find shows traits favored by ancient date farmers | Continue reading


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Trump’s 2021 budget drowns science agencies in red ink, again

White House proposes big cuts to NIH, DOE, NASA and other programs | Continue reading


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Senet: the original board game of death?

Ancient Egyptian senet board may signal shift from mere pastime to a more serious game | Continue reading


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U.S. attorneys warn of upcoming ‘spike’ in prosecutions related to China ties

Some 1000 investigations in industry and academia now open, FBI says | Continue reading


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Why bacteria can’t get any bigger–or smaller

Fitting in all the necessary cellular components limits their dimensions | Continue reading


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Having fraternal twins is in your genes–and in your hormones (2016)

Two gene variants increase the chance of fraternal twins by 29% | Continue reading


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Scientists discover virus with no recognizable genes

Another group finds hundreds of new viruses, some of which may play a role in human disease | Continue reading


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Global warming is speeding up Earth‘s ocean currents

Rising winds boost flows in tropics and Southern Ocean | Continue reading


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Could a habitable planet orbit a black hole?

Theorists say it’s technically possible, but it would be a weird place to live | Continue reading


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Why did a Chinese university hire Charles Lieber to do battery research?

That’s never been a focus of the Harvard University nanoscientist’s work | Continue reading


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Study claiming coronavirus can be transmitted by people without symptoms flawed

A traveler to Germany from China who infected another person did feel ill, contradicting New England Journal of Medicine report | Continue reading


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Samples from famed 19th century voyage reveal effects of ocean acidification

Plankton shells today are dramatically thinner than they were during HMS Challenger voyage | Continue reading


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Genetically engineered moths can knock down crop pests, but will they take off?

Company succeeds in first field trial of an insect modified to control an agricultural pest | Continue reading


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Mining coronavirus genomes for clues to the outbreak’s origins

Theories abound about how the virus that’s now rampant in China made its way from bats (almost certainly) to humans | Continue reading


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Spider biologist denies suspicions of widespread data fraud in his research

Behavioral ecologists are in turmoil as dozens of research papers involving an expert on social spiders draw scrutiny | Continue reading


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Mite-destroying gut bacterium might help save vulnerable honey bees

Modified bacterium can also kill viral invaders | Continue reading


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Bat-filled tree may have been ground zero for the Ebola epidemic (2014)

Study suggests the first known victim, a toddler, could have been infected playing in the hollow trunk | Continue reading


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Africans carry surprising amount of Neanderthal DNA

People on every continent, including Africa, have a genetic legacy from our extinct cousins | Continue reading


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Relics washed up on beaches reveal lost world beneath the North Sea

Scientists and amateur collectors unite to reconstruct vanished ice age landscape inhabited by Neanderthals, other ancient humans | Continue reading


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Underwater robot reveals hidden base of Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier

Icefin robot swam more than 1 kilometer to reach Thwaites Glacier’s grounding line | Continue reading


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Federal officials to revisit policy for reviewing risky virus experiments

Closed-door reviews of risks and benefits of studies should be made public, some scientists say | Continue reading


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Animal rights conflict prompts leading researcher to leave Germany for China

Neuroscientist Nikos Logothetis will co-direct new primate institute in Shanghai | Continue reading


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