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China and Russia have agreed to jointly build a research station on or around the moon in order to create the conditions for a new space race.The United States and the Soviet Union, followed by their successor state Russia, have long…

The Tasmanian tiger is still extinct. Reports of its sustained survival are greatly exaggerated.Officially known in science as thylacines, the large marsupial predators, which looked more like wild dogs than tigers and stretched across…

Over the past year, many scientific teams around the world have reported that obese people who contract the coronavirus are particularly likely to get dangerously ill.A major new study of nearly 150,000 adults in more than 200 hospitals…

A few years ago, Sayaka Mitoh, a PhD student at Nara Women's University in Japan, was studying the huge collection of sea slugs in her laboratory when she came across a gruesome sight. One of the captive-bred sea slugs in the laboratory,…

"There is evidence that a fairly simple, five-minute, low-dose, low-radiation scan can really save many lives," said Dr. Bernard J. Park, pulmonary surgeon and clinical director of the lungs. Screening service at the Memorial Sloan…

Federal health officials said Monday, millions of Americans now vaccinated against the coronavirus, they could resume some long-denied freedoms, like gathering in small groups at home without masks or social distancing for a hopeful glimpse…

Numbers alone cannot capture the extent of the losses that have occurred as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Datasets are crude tools for plumbing the depth of human suffering or the immensity of our collective grief.However, numbers…

She advocates reimbursement of time and costs to employees. However, she noted, “There is good evidence from behavioral economics that offering money signals is risky. These vaccines are really safe and effective, so we don't want to…

Dr. Lee then opened the folded sheet and subjected it to the usual crumple, re-shred, and re-crumple scheme. "Even after just one squeeze, the facets were very similar to the distribution our model predicted," said Dr. Lee, who is now…

PROVIDENCE, RI - Die Zahlen begannen im September zu steigen. Nach einem ruhigen Sommer begannen die Ärzte des Rhode Island Hospital, in jeder Schicht ein oder zwei Patienten mit Covid-19 zu sehen - und bald drei. Dann vier.Die Zahl der…