Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine candidate may be more effective than early results suggested. Just a week after releasing interim results suggesting the vaccine was more than…
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Fossil MenKermit PattisonWilliam Morrow, $32.50 She is the most controversial, convention-defying, weirdest-looking fossil hominid ever found. Fittingly, the group that discovered this 4.4-million-year-old adult female,…
In the film The Martian, astronaut Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) survives being stranded on the Red Planet by farming potatoes in Martian dirt…
Long-necked sauropods, the largest animals ever to walk on Earth, may have thundered into dominance during the Jurassic Period thanks to a large burst of…
From gulls to grouse to grackles, more than 10,000 bird species live on this planet. Now, scientists are one step closer to understanding the evolution…
Hallucinogenic mushrooms’ key ingredient, psilocybin, can swiftly and dramatically ease depression in the right therapeutic setting, a small study suggests. A month after receiving two…
On the heels of the preliminary success of one COVID-19 vaccine in the United States, another leading vaccine candidate is showing promise. Preliminary results indicate…
If you’re looking for life beyond the solar system, there’s strength in numbers. A new study suggests that systems with multiple planets tend to have…
A long-standing puzzle in evolution is why new genes — ones that seem to arise out of nowhere — can quickly take over functions essential…
Rock the boat Scientists made a toy boat float upside down on the bottom of a layer of levitating liquid, Maria Temming reported in “Toy…