Bats have long posed an immunological mystery: They can harbor viruses that cause severe diseases in other animals, including humans,…
Year: 2026
LONDON — New blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease aim to catch the condition in its earliest stages. Scientists hope that,…
A private mission to rescue an ailing NASA space telescope may now need a rescue of its own. The LINK…
Surfer, spear-fisher and free-diver Riley Elliott and marine biologist, shark diver and underwater photographer Kori Burkhardt put themselves in harm’s…
Scientists at IBM and partner institutions say they’ve reached “quantum advantage” in a trio of experiments demonstrating quantum computing capabilities…
Science word of the day: CovalentPronunciation: Coh-VAY’-lentWhat it means: In chemistry, a covalent bond occurs when two atoms share a…
Two Chilean mummies have provided scientists with the earliest known smallpox genomes found in the Americas, dating between 1492 and…
Whale sharks may be the biggest fish in the ocean, but their feeding habits have remained mysterious. Now, new camera…
Traces of two “ghost lineages” of extinct human populations lie hidden within our genome, a new study reveals.One of these…
Astronomers may have just found a first-of-its-kind phenomenon buried in the shadow of one of the Milky Way’s most famous…