Paleontologists have discovered fossil remains belonging to an enormous 'toothed' bird that lived for a period of…
Philosophers say now is the time to mull over what qualities should grant an artificially intelligent machine moral standing.
The 2020 wildfire season has shattered records across the West. It's a trend that's headed in a dangerous direction.
Dogs process the sensory world very differently than humans, but love in a way that is entirely familiar.
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Are antibodies that attack a patient's own organs contributing to severe forms of COVID-19? A new study suggests specific…
It's draining and depressing to stay on high alert month after month after month. Understanding pandemic fatigue better…
Scientists in the UK and Germany discovered a new doorway that the COVID-19 virus uses to infect human cells. This reveals…
Plastic waste is a global problem. Now a chemist has developed a new strategy for breaking down the most common plastic…
The nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett has implications for how assisted reproductive technologies, which can prevent…
An optical sensor that can detect individual molecules promises early detection of diseases and environmental contamination.
A new environmental record for a prehistoric site in Kenya helped researchers figure out how external conditions influenced…
Differential privacy lets people to share data anonymously, but people need to know more about it to make informed decisions.
OSIRIS-REx will touch down on asteroid Bennu, collect a sample of the dust and begin its journey back to Earth, where scientists…
A close look at how you decide what clothes to put on in the morning can help you understand how computers work.
Man-made chemical disrupt the activities of most human genes. What effect does this have on human health and how should…
A COVID-19 vaccine isn't the only tool for fighting this pandemic. An immunologist argues that safe pneumonia vaccines…
Health statisticians keep careful tabs on how many people die every week. Based on what's happened in past years, they…
As ready as you are to be done with COVID-19, it's not going anywhere soon. A historian of disease describes how once…
A new study is the first to identify sex differences in inflammation and immune cell activation in response to SARS-CoV-2…