While ivermectin was originally used to treat river blindness, it has also been repurposed to treat other human parasitic infections. Ivermectin is an over 30-year-old…
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Artist’s impression of the oscillating, variable radio signal ASKAP J173608.2-321635 arriving at Earth from towards the center of the Milky Way. Credit: Sebastian Zentilomo/University of…
The COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).…
Scientists can make some pretty accurate forecasts about the future. But predicting what the Earth will be like 500 years from now is a difficult…
A bad flu year on top of the pandemic could mean trouble for already-stressed hospitals. As winter looms and hospitals across the U.S. continue to…
The new findings, although preliminary, are raising concerns about the potential long-term effects of COVID-19. With more than 18 months of the pandemic in the…
September 11, 2021 marked the 18 month anniversary of the WHO declaring the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. A year and a half into what the…
No third COVID-19 vaccine dose for now. The key scientific advisory council of the Food and Drug Administration has voted to deny authorization of a…
Artistic interpretation of a primordial black hole formed in the first moments of the Big Bang. Credit: NASA / G. Bacon (STScI) Since the earliest…
A quarter of Sun-like stars eat their own planets, according to new research. How rare is our Solar System? In the 30 years or so…
The huge number of active coronavirus infections offers plenty of opportunity for mutations to occur and new variants to arise. Massive numbers of new COVID–19…
Four people – none of them trained astronauts – are scheduled to launch into orbit aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule on September 15, 2021. Credit:…
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory More than 5,000 kilometers beneath us, Earth’s solid metal inner core wasn’t discovered until 1936. Almost a century later, we’re still…
Two weeks after your second COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory…
As a team of South African researchers we have identified a new lineage of SARS-CoV-2Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the official name…
Same-sex sexual behaviour may seem to present a Darwinian paradox. It provides no obvious reproductive or survival benefit, and yet same-sex sexual behavior is fairly…
Marine Ecologist Surprised To Find “Critically Endangered” Giant Sea Bass Thriving in Mexican Waters
I was looking at the seafloor, focused on identifying fish species as I normally did when diving off of the California coast, when suddenly I…
The fastest runners are usually rewarded with the middle lanes. As a short-distance track and field runner in high school and college, I often found…
While Australians may be focused on the havoc the Delta variant is wreaking on our shores, Delta is in fact driving waves of COVID infections…