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Image: The Maldives are featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Immunity to the coronavirus might be even higher than we thought, a new study indicates. COVID-19 survivors who have low antibody counts could still mount an active immunity against the novel coronavirus. The researchers...

The so-hot-it-won't-stay-in-stock $400 VR headset has been popping in and out of stock for weeks. Here's where you can find it right now.

Examining the brains of frequent cannabis users, researchers have identified a pattern of connectivity related to craving the substance. The findings add weight to the idea that brain regions do not work in isolation, bu...

Many of the people behind world-changing medical discoveries wouldn't have got into medical school by today's standards, thanks to poor grades or misbehaving

The stimulus package President Trump signed in March entitles individuals to an additional $600 in weekly unemployment benefits. Barring any new legislation, the $600 weekly increase is poised to expire on July 31. Some ...

They're probably not just pooping; the restroom is a safe place for them to ponder life's great questions.

Google's AI has been working on speeding up communication with smart replies on Android and Google Docs, now it is bringing this tool to YouTube creators. What you need to know Google is bringing SmartReply to YouTube St...

NASA plans to issue multiple contracts in the coming months for smallsat launch services in the second phase of a program intended to support the emerging small launch vehicle industry. SpaceNews.com

Last year, Google produced a 53-qubit quantum computer that could perform a specific calculation significantly faster than the world's fastest supercomputer. Like most of today's largest quantum computers, this system bo...

A brilliant blue star has disappeared from view, which could mean it became a black hole in a novel way. The post Astronomers Might Have Seen a Star Just Disappear. Turning Straight to a Black Hole Without a Supernova ap...

Former long-shot presidential candidate and Tea Party darling Herman Cain is now in the hospital being treated for COVID-19, just a little over a week after he attended a Trump campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma when coro...

A high-powered telescope array has caught the brilliant fireworks-like "streamers" of gas formed during an early stage of star development in a cluster.

With the Hamama Microgreens Kit, eating fresh and healthy veggies is easy! Just add water once and plant a mess-free Seed Quilt. In only one week, you can harvest delicious microgreens for salads, sandwiches, smoothies, ...

(University of Technology Sydney) Preeclampsia is a dangerous condition that worldwide kills over 70,000 women and 500,000 babies each year. The discovery of two new biomarkers has the potential to predict key underlying...

Astronomers created a stunning new image showing celestial fireworks in star cluster G286.21+0.17....

When Uber handed Jump, its scooter- and bike-sharing division, over to Lime, it sent thousands of Jump e-bikes in the US to the scrapheap to be recycled. In Europe, thousands of the bikes were pulled from city streets. N...

If DARPA exercises all options, the contract awarded to Blue Canyon Technologies has a potential value of $99.4 million. SpaceNews

The Full Buck moon of July 2020 will experience a minor penumbral lunar eclipse this weekend (July 4 and 5), but don't expect much.

The gut bacteria in some people have acquired genes for digesting seaweed fibres in a transfer from marine bacteria. We don't know what effect this has on health, but it could be harmful

In our continuing search for other life in the universe, one place has always looked promising--Mars. It is a rocky planet like Earth, orbiting the same star, and at a distance where water could have been present on the ...

A day after formally completing the sale of Boost, Virgin and other Sprint prepaid networks to Dish, T-Mobile is pulling the plug on Sprint 5G. The move is one in a long list of issues that need sorting out in the wake o...