The farther away we look, the closer in time we travel back towards the Big Bang. The latest … [+] record-holder for quasars comes from a time when the Universe …
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Though the Union Health Ministry has confirmed the presence of 96 instances of the ‘UK variant’ — a form of the Sars-Cov2 associated with high infections — in India, it …
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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla Steven Ferdman/Getty Images The CEOs of Pfizer and BioNTech increased their Covid-19 vaccination production goal to 2 billion doses in 2021, up from 1.3 billion doses. …
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Cancer mortality rates have experienced a record drop for the second year in a row, but some cancer … [+] types have yet to see significant progress. Getty A new …
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Throw a polyester sweater in the washing machine and it’ll come out nice and clean, but also not quite its whole self. As it rinses, millions of synthetic fibers will …
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The Washington Post is reporting that a recent Trump appointee to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released unauthorized climate papers bearing the imprint of the Executive Office of …
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Earli cofounders Cyriac Roeding, Sam Gambhir and David Suhy Earli Healthcare companies like Grail and Guardant are worth billions as leaders in the field of “liquid biopsies,” which enable cancers …
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New research uses brain imaging to find the best way to clear our minds. getty Marie Banich has spent her career trying to understand how the brain works with information. …
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An outbreak of the Avian Influenza has affected several thousands of birds across the country. It was identified in the first week of January with reports of unusual deaths of …
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Topline Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine should provide immunity from disease for at least one year after vaccination, the company announced at a conference Monday, Reuters reports, adding that the company is …
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An illustration of the 14 pairs of binary pulsars used to measure our galactic acceleration. In a … [+] new study just published here in early 2021, the orbital periods …
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Honeybees have been in dramatic decline because of disease, parasites, insecticides, herbicides and lack of food (Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where we aim to take the …
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A study by the National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL) in Gadanki in Chittoor district has solved the mystery over the unequal aerosol distribution in the atmosphere in India and China. …
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Was Earth’s water delivered from space? getty Meteorites may have delivered water to Earth from the outer Solar System throughout its 4.5 billion years history—and may still be doing so. …
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Stanford scientists Hubert Scott Loring and Carlton Everett Schwerdt announced their successful isolation of poliovirus on January 10, 1947. Even though it was only 80% pure and extracted from cotton …
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The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) chief scientist warned that even as numerous countries start rolling out vaccination programmes to stop COVID-19, herd immunity is highly unlikely this year. At a …
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Cannabis or Alcohol? A Study shows cannabis abstinence can increase alcohol use for teens and young … [+] adults. getty The world is becoming increasingly more accepting of cannabis use …
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Vaccines against the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus will not change your DNA, but they will give you immunity … [+] against developing Covid-19. getty As millions of people around the world are …
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Particles collision like these in the Large Hadron Collider are helping scientist understand why our … [+] universe is made of only matter and no antimatter. getty One of the …
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Earth and Mars have some surprising similarities. NASA Two plucky NASA spacecraft found that Mars is wobbling in its rotation just like Earth, potentially telling us more about the search …
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Drug research at Valo Health’s lab in Watertown, MA. Valo Health Valo Health, which is developing a drug discovery platform powered by both artificial intelligence and large patient datasets, announced …
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When people think of “big sharks,” they usually think of the legendary shark, Megalodon (Otodus megalodon), which reached at least 50 feet (15 meters) in length when it was ruling …
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New research suggests that the design of the visual processing system of Madagascar’s gray mouse lemur holds secrets about the origins of vision for humans and for primates around the …
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The SL1 is meant to be attached to submersible sensor-laden research robots known as profiling floats. These devices collect data during short trips as far as a mile beneath the …
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getty There is a simple but powerful rule in psychology known as the “negativity bias.” It refers to the idea that we, as humans, are more attuned to negative cues …
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What you’re doing is tricking your brain into engaging the opposite response to the fight, flight or freeze one (the sympathetic autonomic nervous system). The opposite response you want to …