March 11, 2020, was when the coronavirus made clear it was not going to slink away. On that day, the World Health Organization officially declared…
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For decades, scientists quested after a room-temperature superconductor. Now that they’ve finally found one, the hunt is on for an even better material. Until last…
Since its discovery, the interstellar object known as ‘Oumuamua has defied explanation. First spotted in 2017, it has been called an asteroid, a comet and…
The Code BreakerWalter IsaacsonSimon & Schuster, $35 With the slightest touch, the fernlike vine known as sleeping grass folds over on itself, like a Venus…
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine is not associated with an increased risk of blood clots, the European Medicines Agency announced March 18. That’s the conclusion of an…
Thirty million years before manta rays began gracefully gliding through ocean waters, a shark with fantastically elongated fins gave such underwater flight a go, researchers…
Attentive parenting appears across the animal world, but adoption is rarer, especially when youngsters taken in aren’t kin. Now researchers have witnessed bonobos adopting infants…
More than a year after the novel coronavirus had spread to all corners of the globe, officially becoming a pandemic, we still don’t know where…
Second bouts of COVID-19 are rare, though people 65 years and older may be at higher risk of reinfection than younger ones, a study from…
Fooling the brain — Science News, March 20, 1971 Chronic pain can be treated surgically by severing nerves or by destroying a small part of…