For the first time, an exoplanet family around a sunlike star has had its portrait taken. Astronomers used the Very Large Telescope in Chile to…
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A cheap and easy blood test for inflammation may help determine which COVID-19 patients will benefit from getting steroids. In an observational study of people…
More coronavirus vaccine candidates have passed initial safety tests and induce immune responses that might protect against the virus. All volunteers in a small clinical…
Wildlife ecologist Jim Halfpenny was standing by the stone arch at the north entrance to Yellowstone National Park on January 12, 1995, when horse trailers…
Scientists have discovered the first bacteria known to use the metal manganese to grow. And the researchers had to look only as far as the…
Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, cells invaded by the coronavirus can sprout probing appendages bedecked with viral bits. Human cells infected with…
Power for Skylab, Science News, July 4, 1970 The largest solar cell array system for electrical power ever devised for a spacecraft is now being…
The sun could come from a large, loose-knit clan or a small family that’s always fighting. New computer simulations of young stars suggest two pathways…
A giant underground motion sensor in Germany has taken its first measurements of Earth’s spin and tilt. Although researchers are still getting the machine’s accuracy…
For decades, scientists have gone back and forth about whether massive volcanic eruptions or an asteroid impact — or maybe both — caused a mass…