The biotech company Moderna announced Monday (May 18) that their experimental coronavirus vaccine showed promising results in an early trial, known as a phase I study. After receiving a single dose of the vaccine, called mRNA-1273, all 45 of the…
A person who had severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) 17 years ago could help scientists in the search for therapies to fight the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, according to a new study from a biotech company. The study researchers found that…
Two white dots (circled in red) are actually a new species of parasitic fungus that lives on American millipedes. Researchers named it in honor of Twitter. Researchers have discovered a parasitic fungus that sucks nutrients out of the reproductive organs…
In this artist’s depiction of life 77 million years ago in Alberta, Canada, the tyrannosaur Daspletosaurus hunts a young horned Spinops. An adult Spinops tries to interfere, and a Coronosaurus watches from a distance. Tyrannosaurus rex may have been the…
While gravity’s effects can clearly be seen on the scale of things like planets, stars and galaxies, the force of gravity between everyday objects is extremely difficult to measure. Gravity is one of the four fundamental forces in the universe,…
The north magnetic pole is lurching away from its traditional home in the Canadian Arctic and toward Siberia because of a fierce tug-of-war battle being waged by two giant blobs hiding deep underground, at the core–mantle boundary, a new study…