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According to new research, overestimating immunity in U.S. citizens contributed to a larger-than-expected surge in COVID cases, hospitalizations, and deaths from the delta variant during…
New research suggests that people high in narcissism were less likely to comply with COVID-19 mitigations. Throughout the COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China,…
When cyanobacteria live in low-light conditions, such as beneath a pond surface or under a plant canopy on a forest floor, some are able to…
A new study has identified a nearby star whose sunspot cycles appear to have stopped. Studying this star might help explain the period from the…
Entropy is the measure of the disorder in a system that occurs over a period of time with no energy put into restoring the order.…
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has been collecting data on a kilonova—a powerful event illustrated here that happens when two neutron stars merge—associated with GW170817. This…
Some white-tailed deer living in Staten Island, New York, are actively infected with the Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant of SARS-CoV-2, according to new research led by…
A molecule of the cancer medication doxorubicin (foreground), detected using the van der Waals vertical heterostructure biosensor (background). The background is an actual nanoscale scattering…
Several FDA-approved drugs — including for type 2 diabetes, hepatitis C and HIV — significantly reduce the ability of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2Severe acute…
Microwave brightness temperature on top of visible reflectance for Hurricane Harvey before its landfall in Texas. Credit: Penn State In 2017, Hurricane Harvey stalled after…
The FAA raised concerns that new, full-speed 5G cellphone services near airports could interfere with aircraft operations. New high-speed cellphone services have raised concerns of…
Telecommunications companies around the world are expanding their next-generation, or 5G, networks. 5G stands for fifth-generation cellular network technology. It’s the technology that enables wireless…
A selfie taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on Sol 2291 at the “Rock Hall” drill site, located on Vera Rubin Ridge. Reduced carbon released…
Coronal rain on the Sun with Earth superimposed for scale. New high-resolution spectrographic observations of a flare on a faint distant star using the Penn…
It is widely understood that antibodies neutralize viruses by latching onto their surfaces and blocking them from infecting host cells. But new research reveals that…
Roar supercomputer provides computational power for data-intense gene expression studies. While most people in the U.S. may think of bumble bees as the standard yellow…
Artist’s impression of a neutron star and black hole about to merge. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav/Swinburne The largest catalog of gravitational wave events ever assembled…
Defects in the lattice structure of hexagonal boron nitride can be detected with photoluminescence. Researchers shine a light with a color or energy on the…
NASA’s Kepler mission discovered the approximately 10-hour transit of a Mars-sized exoplanet orbiting the M-dwarf star KOI-4777. The proximity of the planet to its host…