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Mounting evidence shows that COVID-19 is more severe than flu.

Scientists don't yet know why death rates were higher among women in the study.

A new intranasal delivery system shows promise in reducing neuroinflammation and slowing the progression of multiple sclerosis.

In modern optics, a variety of nanoscale materials and their localisation have been examined, as they lead to novel optical effects. Viewing a direction sensitive information display utilizing the optical Janus effect ha...

As the COVID-19 virus continues to spread around the globe, studying aerosol and droplet transport within different environments can help establish effective, physics-informed measures for virus mitigation. One of the mo...

Anika Chebrolu hopes to work with scientists to develop the drug candidate further.

Microscopy techniques that incorporate mid-infrared (IR) illumination holds tremendous promise across a range of biomedical and industrial applications due to its unique biochemical specificity. However, the method is pr...

If the Higgs boson really is decaying into pairs of muons in the Large Hadron Collider, that's a big deal for particle physics.

The study will test how much virus is needed to infect humans and which vaccines work the best to prevent COVID-19.

Measurements of phosphine in Venus's clouds have sparked speculation that it could have come from life, but a new analysis of infrared measurements from 2015 has failed to find the gas

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) report that the severity of symptoms was reduced by about half within four hours of smoking cannabis. After smoking cannabis, users with OCD reported it reduced their compu...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to extend its robotic arm and bounce off the asteroid Bennu, collecting a sample of dust and rocks to bring back to Earth in 2023

The fluid that cushions the human brain redistributes in the skull during spaceflight, according to a new study.

A newly discovered set of salivary glands is nestled behind the nose.

Disrupted cannabinoid signaling impairs learning by altering behavioral states.

A new theory suggests electromagnetic energy in the brain enables neurons and brain regions to create consciousness and our ability to critically think.

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Our eyes are sensitive to only three spectral color bands (red, green, blue), and people can no longer distinguish colors if it becomes very dark. Spectroscopists can identify many more colors by the frequencies of the l...

The UK's flagship covid-19 infection tracking survey has been deluged by complaints, with volunteers calling it an "absolute shambles" and "disappointing and frustrating"

Filmmakers spent three years following pandas in China's Qinling Mountains, capturing never-before-seen footage of males competing over females.

Back in 2016, researchers claimed Dragonfly 44 was a "failed" Milky Way -- a galaxy with a huge dark matter mass but almost no stars. Now, on closer examination, that claim has fallen apart.

A team of researchers at Osaka University, in collaboration with the University of Bordeaux and the Bergonié Institute in France, has succeeded in terahertz imaging of early-stage breast cancer less than 0.5 mm without ...