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A supermarket cashier in Buenos Aires, Argentina, waits for costumers behind a makeshift plastic curtain as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.…
DR P. MARAZZI/Science Source By Meredith WadmanApr. 2, 2020 , 6:20 PM On the last day of its existence, the administration of former President Barack…
A paramedic in Berlin draws blood to test for antibodies to the new coronavirus. Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images By Gretchen VogelApr. 2, 2020 , 4:05 PM…
Damien Roué/Flickr On this week’s show, Contributing Correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt talks with host Sarah Crespi about modeling coronavirus spread and the role of forecasts in…
STEFANIA INFANTE By Meredith WadmanApr. 2, 2020 , 1:00 PM In November 2014, nine senior female scientists at the National Institute of Child Health and…
Kelsey Taylor was able to freeze her eggs before receiving therapy toxic to her ovaries. ANGELO MERENDINO By Meredith WadmanApr. 2, 2020 , 1:00 PM…
Researchers will start to treat COVID-19 patients at Aarhus University Hospital with a drug named camostat mesylate that targets a human protein. HENNING BAGGER/AFP via…
Light-sensitive proteins at the tip of this fly’s proboscis allow it to sense bitter tastes. Eye of Science/Science Source By Mitch LeslieApr. 2, 2020 ,…
Going door-to-door to deliver the oral polio vaccine would put both communities and health workers at risk of COVID-19, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative says.…
Elephants at Mpala Research Centre help keep the soil fertile even though cattle remove nutrients. Dino J. Martins By Erik StokstadApr. 1, 2020 , 4:50…
Kelvin Droegemeier Stephen Voss By Jeffrey MervisApr. 1, 2020 , 3:20 PM Kelvin Droegemeier, science adviser to President Donald Trump, today was handed another job…
By Ann GibbonsApr. 1, 2020 , 2:10 PM In 1974, the world was stunned by the discovery of “Lucy,” the partial skeleton of a human…
Workers build an emergency field hospital in New York City’s Central Park for COVID-19 patients. MARY ALTAFFER/AP PHOTO By Science News StaffApr. 1, 2020 ,…
Heat from radioactivity, not starlight, could warm planets enough to allow liquid water to exist on their surfaces. Дмитрий Ларичев/iStock.com By Katherine KorneiApr. 1, 2020…
Homo antecessor’s facial features, as seen in this reconstruction of a boy who lived 800,000 years ago in Gran Dolina, Spain, have long puzzled anthropologists.…
Dolphin Alliance Project By Elizabeth PennisiMar. 31, 2020 , 8:01 PM Males resort to all sorts of desperate measures when fertile females are scarce, including…
Johnson & Johnson is launching a major push to develop a vaccine that can neutralize the new coronavirus. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/National Institutes…
Many new vaccines are being tested to thwart the pandemic coronavirus, which infects a human cell (brown) with deadly efficiency to produce new copies (pink).…
Jennifer Haller receives the first administration of an mRNA vaccine, made by the biotech firm Moderna, against the pandemic coronavirus. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren By…
New Delhi police officers provide hand sanitizer to a homeless man on the third day of India’s national lockdown. Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times/Sipa USA By Vaishnavi…
The coronavirus pandemic is closing businesses across the United States, including this restaurant in Boston. David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images By Warren…
Meet nine scientists taking charge—feeding the world, leading academies, and inspiring social reform
Meet nine scientists taking charge—feeding the world, leading academies, and inspiring social reform
In 1939, Elsie Kokes graduated at the top of her class at Catholic University of America, but she struggled to find steady employment as a…
In medieval times, the picturesque region around Peveril Castle in the U.K.’s Peak District was a center of lead mining and an “industrial landscape.” Robjem/iStock…
Philip Anderson in 1977, the year he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his study of the effects of disorder in solids EMILIO SEGRE…
In certain states, growing marijuana is allowed, but only one source nationally is legal for researchers. That could change with new rules from the Drug Enforcement…
Workers at the joint-venture Dongfeng Honda in Wuhan, in China’s Hubei province, eat lunch while sitting 1.5 meter away from each other. Feature China/Barcroft Media…
A member of the Iranian army walks through a temporary 2000-bed hospital for novel coronavirus patients set up at the international exhibition center in Tehran. AP…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced $800 + million commitment to support small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), health organisations and governments, and health workers on the…
John Nacion/NurPhoto via Getty Images By Kelly ServickMar. 28, 2020 , 8:00 AM Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center. As cases of…
In Wuhan, China, people with mild COVID-19 cases were taken to large facilities and not permitted to see their families. “Infected people must be isolated.…
Getty Images/Stringer By Gretchen VogelMar. 27, 2020 , 5:45 PM Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center. Do newborn babies need to be…
A patient in Italy receives intensive care for COVID-19. Human geneticists are coming together to look for genes that make some people more vulnerable to…
The University of Rochester has agreed to pay $9.4 million to nine plaintiffs in a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit. University of Rochester By Meredith WadmanMar. 27,…
By looking for x-rays coming from the sky between the stars, a team of physicists claims to have ruled out one possible type of dark…
Let Ideas Compete/Flickr On this week’s show, host Joel Goldberg gets an update on the coronavirus pandemic from Senior Correspondent Jon Cohen. In addition, Cohen…
Meltwater from Greenland, like this iceberg off the eastern coast, once disrupted the Atlantic Ocean’s “conveyor belt.” imageBROKER/Alamy Stock Photo By Paul VoosenMar. 26, 2020…
Jennifer Eberhardt has devised virtual reality programs for training police to conduct traffic stops more respectfully. LIPO CHING By Douglas StarrMar. 26, 2020 , 2:00…
Researchers can use Rapid Response Research grants from the National Science Foundation to quickly launch studies of unexpected or traumatic events, such as the 2018 mass…
Preprints, such as those appearing on bioRxiv, have become a speedy way for scientists to share their results, but they haven’t been peer reviewed. By…
By Joel GoldbergMar. 26, 2020 , 8:00 AM Scientists and doctors have observed for thousands of years that some diseases, such as polio and influenza,…
Dutch models of COVID-19 are designed to help prevent overloading of hospitals and the need to transfer patients. Thomas Angus/Imperial College London By Martin Enserink,…
iStock.com/uschools By Jeffrey MervisMar. 25, 2020 , 3:35 PM The $2 trillion stimulus package that the U.S. Senate is working to approve today is aimed…
The biotech Moderna delivers messenger RNA (blue) into cells to be translated into proteins by ribosomes. V. Altounian/Science By Kelly ServickMar. 25, 2020 , 12:20…
Sentinel trees could help prevent the spread of exotic insects, such as the emerald ash borer of Asia. HERMAN WONG HM/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM By Gabriel PopkinMar. 25,…
New Delhi: As the country remains under lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, online video streaming platform Amazon Prime Video on Wednesday (March 25,…
Mumbai: With people staying at home during the 21-day lockdown called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the streaming services in India have decided to temporarily…
In 1986, decades after the Minamata disaster, workers still discarded mercury-tainted fish from the bay. The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images By Joshua SokoloskiMar. 24, 2020 ,…
Emma Spiro (left) and Kate Starbird (right) (left to right): Doug Parry/Information School/University of Washington; Center for an Informed Public By Greg MillerMar. 24, 2020 ,…
Steven Wilbert and Gary Borisy/Forsyth Institute By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Mar. 24, 2020 , 11:00 AM Microbes are everywhere in our guts—and in our mouths.…
California: After Microsoft, Google also launched a dedicated website to provide information on the COVID-19 pandemic. The site, google.com/covid19, provides information on the pandemic, its…
Facebook Inc’s Instagram said on Tuesday (March 24, 2020) it would remove coronavirus-related content and accounts from recommendations and its “explore” option, unless posted by…
Mice bred at the Jackson Laboratory Jennifer L. Torrance/Jackson Laboratory By David GrimmMar. 23, 2020 , 5:20 PM Faced with her lab’s imminent closure, Sunny…
By David MalakoffMar. 23, 2020 , 2:25 PM Daniel Greenberg, a journalist who pioneered coverage of the intersection of science and politics and was an…
Vaccination with BCG leads to a small pustule that can develop into a scar. Kwangmoozaa/iStock By Jop de VriezeMar. 23, 2020 , 6:25 AM Researchers…
New Delhi: Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday (March 22) donated its emergency reserve of 7,20,000 masks to help health workers with more…
Athhon Fauci (far right) attends a recent White House press briefing on the pandemic. Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Jon CohenMar. 22, 2020 ,…
Transmission electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S. National Institutes of Health By Kai Kupferschmidt, Jon…
REUTERS/Tom Brenner Mar. 22, 2020 , 1:30 PM “IT IS POSSIBLE TO STOP THE EPIDEMIC.” That’s the message splashed atop a website built by a University of…
A doctor in Germany prepares a swab to test for coronavirus infection. Daniel Reinhardt/picture alliance via Getty Images By Robert F. ServiceMar. 22, 2020 ,…
U.S. scientists raced to develop a rubella vaccine ahead of an epidemic expected in 1970. March of Dimes By Meredith WadmanMar. 21, 2020 , 8:00…
Uber Taxi suspended its operations in Saudi Arabia until further notice due to measures announced by the interior ministry, a company statement said on Friday.…
California: After banning ads on masks, Facebook has announced that it will ban ads for related products to prevent people from misusing the ongoing COVID-19…
San Francisco: Despite launching new iPad Pro models this week, Apple is still on course to launch a 12.9-inch iPad Pro with a mini-LED display…
Anyaivanova/iStock By Michael PriceMar. 20, 2020 , 1:00 PM As the coronavirus outbreak roils university campuses across the world, early-career scientists are facing several dilemmas.…
A honey bee drags a dead hive mate away. Agencja Fotograficzna Caro/Alamy Stock Photo By Eva FrederickMar. 20, 2020 , 10:25 AM They’re the undertakers…
By Jeffrey Mervis, David MalakoffMar. 19, 2020 , 11:05 PM The U.S. research community is urgently asking the White House and Congress to take steps…
San Francisco: Microsoft`s unified communications platform for workplace called Teams has reached 44 million daily active users (DAUs) — an over 40 per cent jump…
Antibody tests being rolled out can broadly survey who in cities like New York City (above) cleared an infection with the new coronavirus without knowing…
The king penguin throngs on Île aux Cochons in November 2019 were a fraction of their past size. ADRIEN CHAIGNE/TAAF By Eli KintischMar. 19, 2020…
Sebastian Reinecke/Flickr On this week’s show, host Joel Goldberg talks with science journalist Andrew Curry about archaeological finds from thousands of years ago along the…
A scientist at the federal Rocky Mountain Laboratories wants relief from recently imposed restrictions on fetal tissue research in order to conduct a study related to coronavirus…
Duck? Chicken? This seagull-size Cretaceous shorebird had features of ducks, chickens, and turkeys. Phillip Krzeminski By Gretchen VogelMar. 18, 2020 , 12:00 PM Go to…
A woman gets swabbed at a drive-through testing site in West Palm Beach, Florida, on 16 March. CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP/Getty Images By Jon Cohen, Kai KupferschmidtMar.…
Firefighters battle a blaze in Sylmar, California, in 2019. Overall, the acreage burned by wildfires in the continental United States declined in 2019 compared to…
A lab animal facility housing rhesus macaques Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty Images By David GrimmMar. 18, 2020 , 11:00 AM The U.S. National Institutes…
An enumerator collects data during India’s last national census, in 2011. Anshuman Poyrekar/Hindustan Times/Getty Images By Vaishnavi ChandrashekharMar. 17, 2020 , 5:40 PM Next month,…
Multiple women alleged sexual harassment by Ranulfo Romo Trujillo of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, University City. Katia Soboleva (CC BY-SA 2.0) By Inés…
Frank Lasee, a former state legislator, is out as head of the Heartland Institute, known for its efforts to question climate science. Douglas Graham/CQ Roll…
A medical officer prepares to take samples from a visitor at a drive-through testing center at Yeungnam University Medical Center. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon By Dennis NormileMar. 17, 2020…
The coronavirus emergency has hit the normal life of people across the globe were people are taking preventive measure like house quarantine and social distancing.…
Polo was a popular pastime for women and men in China’s Tang dynasty, as seen by this figure of a woman playing polo on a…
Alex Pryor By Michael PriceMar. 16, 2020 , 8:01 PM Some 25,000 years ago, a circular wall of bone and ivory rose like a macabre…
A new catalyst replaces a hydrogen atom with a methyl group, which can dramatically increase a drug’s potency. Kaibo Feng By Robert F. ServiceMar. 16,…
Argonne National Laboratory has asked visitors not to come, although its Advanced Photon Source, which could help decipher the structure of coronavirus proteins, will most…
In Milan, universities like this one were ordered to close. Laboratories had to follow suit. AP Photo/Luca Bruno By Kelly Servick, Adrian Cho, Giorgia Guglielmi,…
In a display of social distancing, people sit far apart while waiting to be tested for COVID-19 at a makeshift medical testing center in Kuwait.…
The Polarstern is drifting with Arctic ice. Research flights supporting the mission have been canceled. Alfred Wegener Institute/Esther Horvath/CC BY 4.0 By Gretchen VogelMar. 16, 2020 ,…
San Francisco: While Google is still working on a coronavirus screening and tracking website, the Microsoft Bing team has already launched a web portal for…
A passenger’s temperature is taken upon arrival at Murtala International Airport in Lagos. On 27 February, Nigeria became the first sub-Saharan country to report a…
San Francisco: Apple has suspended all active shooting on projects managed by outside studios, including “The Morning Show,” “Foundation,” “See,” “Lisey`s Story,” “Servant” and “For…
New Delhi: With a completely new design, Galaxy M31 comes with 64MP quad-camera, 6000mAh battery and company`s signature Infinity-O Super AMOLED display. The new Galaxy…
New Delhi: South Korean tech giant Samsung after rolling out Android 10 update for Galaxy M40 and Galaxy A70s, has now started updating three more…
California: As global industries attempt to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, tech giant Apple has also announced its plans of hosting the annual Worldwide…
Nevada: Amidst global concerns over the COVID-19 outbreak, Amazon has also suspended the re: MARS 2020 annual AI event. The event’s cancellation update is posted…
Alex Wong/Getty Images By John TravisMar. 14, 2020 , 1:10 PM “Tony, do you want to come up?” When President Donald Trump called Anthony Fauci…
Washington DC: Computer security software major Kaspersky has warned against two new Android malware modifications which together can steal cookies collected by the browser and…
People seeking help for pandemic influenza in Brazil in July 2009, when cold weather boosted the spread of the disease. JEFFERSON BERNARDES/AFP/Getty Images By Jon…
In Milan, universities like this one were ordered to close. Laboratories had to follow suit. AP Photo/Luca Bruno By Kelly Servick, Adrian Cho, Giorgia Guglielmi,…
Athletes hit a rubber ball with their hips in a version of Mesoamerica’s famous ball game, shown here in a colonial illustration. Wikimedia Commons, Christoph…
George Thompson University of California-Davis Health By Jon CohenMar. 13, 2020 , 1:30 PM On 26 February, what seems like ages ago in the ongoing…
New Delhi: Although Twitter is yet to listen to users for edit and auto-deletion buttons to serve them better, a Twitter client called Brizzly has…
San Francisco: Microsoft has released a Windows patch for a security vulnerability that enabled attackers to transfer malicious code from one machine to another if…
New Delhi: In the wake of coronavirus outbreak, which has killed more than 4,500 people globally and infected 73 individuals in India, Digital healthcare platform…
Jonathan Pruitt, seen here in 2015 holding a black widow spider, has had his animal behavior data come under scrutiny by journals and peers. Kara…
In a 2019 fire, Notre Dame’s spire toppled and pierced its vaulted ceiling. Its lead roof melted into jagged stalactites. © PATRICK ZACHMANN/MAGNUM PHOTOS By…
r. nial bradshaw/Flickr On this week’s show, freelance writer Christa Lesté-Lasserre talks with host Sarah Crespi about the scientists working on the restoration of Notre…
In Bozhou, China, in a photo from February, workers spray disinfectant to protect against the novel coronavirus. STR/AFP via Getty Images By Robert F. ServiceMar.…
Europe’s Rosalind Franklin rover can drill 2 meters into the surface of Mars. ESA/ATG medialab By Daniel CleryMar. 12, 2020 , 10:25 AM Multiple technical issues…
By Erik StokstadMar. 11, 2020 , 5:55 PM The United Kingdom will increase public funding for research and development by 15% in the next fiscal…
Pearlie Epling-Burnette in her former lab at the Moffitt Cancer Center. Pearlie Epling-Burnett By Jeffrey MervisMar. 11, 2020 , 5:45 PM One of Pearlie Epling-Burnette’s…
A study to prod an antimony nucleus (buried in the middle of this device) with magnetic fields became one with electric fields when a key wire melted…
Lida XING By Gretchen VogelMar. 11, 2020 , 12:00 PM This tiny head, 14 millimeters long (including the beak), belongs to one of the smallest…
A team from Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center carry supplies in preparation for home visits to collect samples from people potentially exposed to the new coronavirus.…
J. Hinkelman, L. Vrsanska, The Science of Nature-Naturwissenschaften 10.1007 (2020) By Gretchen VogelMar. 10, 2020 , 5:30 PM Look closely at this piece of fossilized…
A camera trap caught this image of a Madagascar forest cat on its home turf. Julie Pomerantz and Luke Dollar By Joshua SokolMar. 10, 2020…
In this new electrolyzer, an improved ion-conducting membrane (yellow film, right) enables hydrogen generation from water without expensive catalysts. Yu Seung Kim/Los Alamos National Laboratory…
iStock.com/bboserup By Kelsey Brugger, E&E NewsMar. 10, 2020 , 2:50 PM Originally published by E&E News The White House has released a working copy of…
Where schools have closed, teachers have attempted to continue coursework with their students online. Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelMar. 10, 2020 ,…
By David MalakoffMar. 9, 2020 , 11:23 PM When Craig Dalton heard that his name came up at a nationally televised White House press briefing…
SHANGHAI: Apple sold fewer than half a million iPhones in China in February 2020, government data showed on Monday (March 9, 2020), as the coronavirus…
Tables are empty at St. Mark’s Square in Venice after the Italian government adopted emergency measures to contain the novel coronavirus. Manuel Silvestri By Kai…
DAVIDE BONAZZI/SALZMAN ART By Jeffrey BrainardMar. 9, 2020 , 4:00 AM In the push for “open access” (OA)—making scientific papers immediately free to everyone—it’s easy…
Beijing: Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi was supposed to unveil the Mi 10 series on February 23, 2020 at a pre-MWC event which was cancelled and…
Two of India’s leading digital payment firms Phonepe and Paytm ended up having a Twitter confrontation on Friday (March 6, 2020) after Paytm invited its…
Medical personnel in protective suits were seen at a diplomatic compound in North Korea amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Yevgeny Agoshkov/TASS via Getty Images By Richard StoneMar.…
(left to right): CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION; SPL/SCIENCE SOURCE; CHRISTOPHE GATEAU/DPA/ALAMY LIVE NEWS By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Mar. 6, 2020 , 4:20 PM…
Clifford Lane National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases By Jon CohenMar. 6, 2020 , 1:00 PM On 13 February, Clifford Lane went to a…
A medical officer scans a passenger for signs of fever at the arrival terminal of Sultan Iskandar Muda International Airport in Aceh Besar, Indonesia, on…
New Delhi: Sony India on Friday (March 6) announced a new 4K Handycam ‘FDR-AX43’ featuring a universally acclaimed in-built gimbal mechanism, Balanced Optical SteadyShot technology…
California: Amazon has added a handful of new features to its Alexa voice assistant including the ability to provide weather and traffic updates. If you…
New Delhi: Infinix, a premium smartphone brand from Transsion Holdings, on Friday (March 6) launched its cheapest phone Infinix S5 Pro with pop-up selfie camera…
New Delhi: Tech giant Intel and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to digitally empower nearly one…
Bangalore: Twitter Inc said on Thursday it is banning posts that “dehumanize” people because they have a disease or disability or because of their age,…
Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Jennifer Couzin-FrankelMar. 5, 2020 , 6:40 PM A $115 million collaboration to tackle COVID-19, led by heavy hitters…
Zoe Shuttleworth/Flickr On this week’s show, Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how dogs’ cold noses may be able to…
A neutrophil (orange) traps bacteria by extruding a net of DNA—a protective response that can backfire. SPL/SCIENCE SOURCE By Mitch LeslieMar. 5, 2020 , 2:00…
Leo, a Norwegian buhund, hides under a bed during thunderstorm. Bill Douthitt/Science By Michael PriceMar. 5, 2020 , 11:55 AM Every Fourth of July, the…
In 2018, an atmospheric block caused drought that dried out the Rhine River in Germany. CHRISTOPHE GATEAU/DPA/ALAMY LIVE NEWS By Paul VoosenMar. 5, 2020 ,…
New Delhi: Twitter has announced to test tweets that will disappear after 24 hours. The test is initially being done in Brazil, similar to vanishing…
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler AP Photo/Patrick Semansky By Kelsey Brugger, E&E NewsMar. 4, 2020 , 4:30 PM Originally published by E&E News…
Critics fear a new Environmental Protection Agency rule would not adequately protect streams and wetlands. jon chica parade/iStock.com By Jeremy P. Jacobs, E&E NewsMar. 4, 2020…
Farm-raised tilapia at a market in Egypt, where growers have had outbreaks of a damaging fish virus. WORLDFISH/FLICKR/CC BY-NC-ND By Erik StokstadMar. 4, 2020 ,…
A new telescope, under construction on a 3170-meter mountaintop in eastern Turkey, is expected to come online next year. ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY ASTROPHYSICS RESEARCH AND APPLICATION…
Smokers can contaminate nonsmoking indoor spaces with thirdhand cigarette smoke. Tarasylo/iStock By Erica TennenhouseMar. 4, 2020 , 2:00 PM Scientists have warned about the dangers…
Kate Kirby, a theoretical physicist, has been CEO of the 55,000-member American Physical Society since 2015. Harold Dorwin/Center for Astrophysics/Harvard & Smithsonian By Adrian ChoMar.…
New Delhi: Alphabet Inc said on Tuesday it has canceled its annual developer event, Google I/O, amid concerns related to the coronavirus outbreak. “Over the…
New Delhi: Social media platform WhatsApp on Wednesday (March 4) launched dark mode feature to its iOS and Android users. The Facebook-owned messaging app, which…
Sex chromosomes influence physical differences between male and female animals, such as feather patterns in mandarin ducks. Chris Schenk/Minden Pictures By Erin MalsburyMar. 3, 2020…
A woman wearing a face mask waits for a commuter train in Jakarta, Indonesia. Scientists worry Indonesia may already have a “silent epidemic” of COVID-19.…
When trawl nets stir up sediments, microbes remove less nitrogen. Too much of this nutrient can harm water quality. Ingo Wagner/Picture Alliance/Getty Images By Erik…
By Virginia MorellMar. 3, 2020 , 11:15 AM Whether it’s calculating your risk of catching the new coronavirus or gauging the chance of rain on…
Other countries can take lessons from China’s handling of the COVID-19 epidemic, the World Health Organization’s Bruce Aylward told reporters in Beijing on 24 January.…
MeTooSTEM founder BethAnn McLaughlin faces a severe challenge to her leadership. Lane Turner/The Boston Globe/Getty Images By Meredith WadmanMar. 2, 2020 , 3:45 PM *Update,…
Minerals near deep-sea hydrothermal vents promote the formation of energy-rich organic molecules that life needed to get its start. NOAA/Nature Source/Science Source By Robert F.…
New Delhi: OPPO on Monday (March 2) officially launched its first flagship of 2020, the Reno 3 Pro, with the latest iteration of its Android…
By Adrian ChoMar. 1, 2020 , 12:12 PM Citing the growing threat of the coronavirus, the American Physical Society (APS), the 55,000 member professional society for…
Beijing: Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has posted a short video clip on Twitter to tease a new device that will be revealed on March 3.…
By Jon CohenFeb. 29, 2020 , 5:39 PM The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today recommended a dramatic shift in how it implements regulations that control whether…
Islamabad: A coalition comprising digital media giants Facebook, Google and Twitter (among others) have spoken out against the new regulations approved by the Pakistani government…
Mumbai: Godrej aer has launched a new, smarter home fragrance product called Godrej aer Smart Matic which uses your mobile phone to spray perfume. Touted…
California: Professional networking service LinkedIn is planning to introduce a Snapchat-like stories feature on its platform. Pete Davies, head of content products at LinkedIn, wrote…
A faulty reagent in a test kit distributed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has hampered efforts to find and confirm COVID-19…
(left to right): MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES; JENNIFER Y. LAMB AND MATTHEW P. DAVIS; KYODO/NEWSCOM By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Feb. 28, 2020 , 3:40…
The famous “Nazareth inscription” warns grave robbers that stealing bodies is punishable by death—but the marble tablet likely isn’t from Nazareth. © BnF By Ann GibbonsFeb.…
New regulations in Canada should reduce the number of right whales getting tangled up in fishing gear. Nick Hawkins/Minden Pictures By Elizabeth PennisiFeb. 28, 2020…
An infrared photo of a golden retriever in an fMRI scanner reveals the cold temperature of a dog’s nose versus its glowing, warm body. Anna…
New Delhi: After four years, Google has added five new languages to its Translate service. As the official blog notes, Google Translate now offers support…
A traveler wearing a protective facemask at Changi Airport in Singapore. The city has not seen COIVD-19 cases exploding yet. Roslan RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images…
New rules could govern which scientific studies the Department of the Interior allows to inform its efforts to manage some 200 million hectares of land,…
3d imagination/shutterstock.com By Dalmeet Singh ChawlaFeb. 27, 2020 , 2:00 PM Online sleuths have discovered what they suspect is a paper mill that has produced…
Christian Hipólito This week on the podcast, Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a turning point for one ancient Mesoamerican city:…
Teotihuacan was once a bustling, cosmopolitan metropolis, the center of an empire whose reach may have extended 1000 kilometers away to the Maya region. MAX…
Last year, in an 18-hour balloon flight over Canada, SuperBIT held steady and took sharp pictures. SUPERBIT COLLABORATION By Adrian ChoFeb. 27, 2020 , 12:15…
At twilight, streaks from Starlink satellites could ruin about one-third of Vera C. Rubin Observatory images. VICTORIA GIRGIS/LOWELL OBSERVATORY By Daniel CleryFeb. 27, 2020 ,…
Jennifer Y. Lamb and Matthew P. Davis. By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Feb. 27, 2020 , 11:00 AM At first glance, most salamanders don’t stand out:…
Opioid overdoses can be deadly because the drug can signal the brain to stop a person’s breathing. Brian Snyder/REUTERS By Kelly ServickFeb. 27, 2020 ,…
Amanda Smith By Daniel CleryFeb. 26, 2020 , 7:01 PM A nearby exoplanet with rainclouds in its atmosphere may have habitable conditions at its surface,…
Sponsors of clinical trials must report missing data from hundreds of trials from 2007–17. Halfpoint/iStock.com By Meagan WeilandFeb. 26, 2020 , 6:00 PM Drug companies,…
Afghan security forces trained by the U.S. military keep watch near the site of a suicide attack in Kabul this month. Omar Sobhani/REUTERS By Jeffrey…
Researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Lille, France, at work on the new coronavirus on 20 February. SYLVAIN LEFEVRE/GETTY IMAGES By Kai KupferschmidtFeb. 26, 2020…
By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Feb. 26, 2020 , 11:00 AM Humans are one of only a few creatures on the planet that can walk and…
New Delhi: Chinese smartphone maker Realme on Wednesday roped in Bollywood superstar Salman Khan as its brand ambassador. The actor will be endorsing the brand`s…
Residents of Casalpusterlengo, an Italian town under lockdown, line up to enter a supermarket. MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images By Jon Cohen, Kai KupferschmidtFeb. 25,…
These tools, excavated from a site in central India, may have been continuously produced between 80,000 and 25,000 years ago. Chris Clarkson By Michael PriceFeb.…
So far, eight public servants who visited the Diamond Princess to support a quarantine have contracted the virus that causes COVID-19. Kyodo/Newscom By Dennis NormileFeb. 25,…
MeTooSTEM founder BethAnn McLaughlin faces a severe challenge to her leadership. Lane Turner/The Boston Globe/Getty Images By Meredith WadmanFeb. 24, 2020 , 6:00 PM The…
A worker at a factory in India arranges cow urine capsules, believed by many Hindus to have medicinal properties. Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg/Getty Images By Vaishnavi ChandrashekharFeb.…
When humans began to farm and live with their livestock, they evolved a more virulent form of salmonella. Annette Günzel By Ann GibbonsFeb. 24, 2020 ,…
Beijing: Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus on Monday (February 24, 2020) refuted reports that it has cancelled an offline event to showcase its upcoming OnePlus 8…
Beijing: Chinese smartphone maker Realme was expected to unveil its smart TV on February 24 in Barcelona, Spain but with Mobile World Congress canceled we…
Beijing: Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus CEO Pete Lau has stated on Weibo that the company will not be able to host a large offline launch…
San Francisco: Tech Giant Apple is reportedly planning to launch budget Airpods Pro-Lite variant by mid-2020. Taiwan’s Universal Scientific Industrial (USI) will likely be the…
California: Google wants to restrict apps, which are always accessing your location in the background with the Android 11 update. In an official Android Developers…
California: Google announced that it took down hundreds of apps from its official Play Store for violating its ad policy. As the official blog notes,…
(left to right): GERALDINE WERHAHN/ HIMALAYAN WOLVES PROJECT; VLAD TCHOMPALOV/UNSPLASH; NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, LONDON/SCIENCE SOURCE By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega Feb. 21, 2020 , 3:25 PM…
iStock.com/bboserup By Kelsey Brugger, E&E NewsFeb. 21, 2020 , 2:15 PM Originally published by E&E News The White House issued a notice Wednesday seeking comment…
Killer whales with yellow skin restore their white patches after migrating to warmer waters to molt. John Durban/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Holly Fearnbach/SR3 By…
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