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...
Having a baby is stressful enough without COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and all the associated misinformation. If you’re pregnant...
COVID-19, a respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, has been spreading rapidly but at a different rate in different countries. A variety...
There’s been some confusion recently on whether we should or shouldn’t take ibuprofen to treat symptoms of COVID-19, especially after the World Health...
The Minor Planet Centre has just announced that our planet has been orbited by a second moon for the past three years or so. Designated 2020 CD3, the object...
As the 2019-nCoV coronavirus continues to cross international borders, the two key questions on public health officials’ minds are: How deadly is it?...
Cases of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus have increased dramatically over the past week, prompting concerns about how contagious the virus is and how it spreads....
The blue monkeys painted on the walls of Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini are among many animals found in the frescoes of this 3,600-year-old...
Life is pretty easy to recognize. It moves, it grows, it eats, it excretes, it reproduces. Simple. In biology, researchers often use the acronym ‘MRS-GREN’...
The existence of habitable alien worlds has been a mainstay of popular culture for more than a century. In the 19th century, astronomers believed that...
Nicolas Bourbaki is likely the last mathematician to master nearly all aspects of the field. A consummate collaborator, he made fundamental contributions...
Do supermassive black holes have friends? The nature of galaxy formation suggests that the answer is yes, and in fact, pairs of supermassive black holes...
Professor Attila Krasznahorkay and his colleagues at ATOMKI (the Institute of Nuclear Research in Debrecen, Hungary) recently published a paper that hints...
Historians often trace the dawn of human civilization back 10,000 years, when Neolithic tribes first settled and began farming in the Fertile Crescent,...
Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one.
A reconstruction of a Neanderthal man. Image credit: Neanderthal Museum.
Neanderthals...
In a paper published in the journal Science Advances, we show that, in the micro-world of atoms and particles that is governed by the strange rules of...
It’s not every day that scientists discover a new human species. But that’s just what happened back in 2004, when archaeologists uncovered some very...
Are we alone in the Universe? It comes down to whether intelligence is a probable outcome of natural selection, or an improbable fluke. By definition,...
Many of us know that feeling of waking up, headache in tow, struggling to remember what we said and did after that extra drink the night before. And then...
A 330-foot- (100 m) wide asteroid designated 2019 OK passed just 43,500 miles (70,000 km) from Earth on July 25, 2019. It was discovered by the Brazilian...
