Symptoms of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, typically include a dry cough, fever and shortness of breath. But evidence...
Chemists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have chemically synthesized a new peptide (a short protein fragment) that can bind to part...
An international team of researchers from the United States and Europe has produced the first high-quality genomic sequence for the sterlet (Acipenser...
By combining the power of strong gravitational lensing with the capability of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers...
Scientists from Gero Pte. Ltd., Singapore, have used a deep neural network to search for host-target acting antivirals among experimental and approved...
Researchers at the Treatment Center of PLA General Hospital in Beijing, China, have found that half of the patients they treated for mild COVID-19 disease...
Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have spotted an Earth-sized planet orbiting LHS 1815, a star in the thick disk...
A team of scientists from Monash University and the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute has developed a new biosensor that can be used inside a body and...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a detailed image of a spiral galaxy called NGC 4651.
This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4651....
Two recent studies concluded that snakes are the intermediate hosts of SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease, and that four...
An international team of archaeologists found that the Neanderthals who occupied Gruta da Figueira Brava in the Arrábida range, Portugal, between 86,000...
Uranus possesses an intrinsic magnetic field that encircles the ice giant and influences the local space environment. The solar wind plasma, made up of...
A new species of dromaeosaurid dinosaur being named Dineobellator notohesperus has been discovered by a team of U.S. paleontologists.
Dineobellator notohesperus....
Drugs that are already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could hold promise in fighting COVID-19, a respiratory disease caused by...
A research team led by Harvard University scientist Julie McGeoch has found a never-before-seen protein inside a meteorite called Acfer 086.
A sample of...
In December 2019, a novel coronavirus called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Wuhan, China. In mid-January 2020,...
Snake venom did not evolve as self-defense, according to a paper published in the journal Toxins.
The study by Ward-Smith et al doesn’t support the hypothesis...
Paleontologists have uncovered the remains of three species of fish-eating toothed pterosaurs in the Cretaceous-period Kem Kem beds of Morocco.
Anhanguera...
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity captured a stunning new selfie on February 26, 2020 (the 2687th Martian day, or sol, of the mission).
This selfie was taken...
