Science

Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine was approved on Friday by a group of experts advising the Food and Drug Administration and cleared the final hurdle before formal approval expected on Saturday, according to two people familiar with…

The global scientific consensus is clear: emissions of gases that warm the planet must be cut by almost half by 2030 so that the world can ward off the worst climate catastrophes.The global political response so far has been…

Late last month, Anne Danielson-Francois, Associate Biology Professor at the University of Michigan, received an unusual package. She had instructed the sender to make sure the contents - spiders - were padded because she didn't want her…

Alcohol-based hand sanitizers became a must have during the pandemic. But as sales rose and families stocked up, poison centers received more and more calls about small children they'd accidentally picked up.Even now, roughly a year after…

Although the rift at Hell Creek is particularly extreme, most of the megatheropod communities that the researchers studied had no carnivores between 220 and 660 pounds. (For a modern comparison, this is as if the adult carnivores in South…

Tomorrow's Air, a new climate protection group founded by the Adventure Travel Trade Association, is taking a different path, both technologically and socially. It advocates the removal and storage of carbon, as did the Swiss company…

The brain is an electrical organ. Everything that is going on there is the result of millivolts switching from one neuron to another in certain patterns. This increases the tempting possibility that, if we ever deciphered them, we could…

WASHINGTON - Senator Joe Manchin III, the West Virginia Democrat who heads the Senate Energy Committee, announced Wednesday that he would vote to re-affirm New Mexico Representative Deb Haaland as Head of the Home Office, most likely to…

A Michigan woman died 61 days after receiving a pair of lungs from an organ donor infected with the coronavirus. This came out from a case report published this month.There was no evidence that the donor, a woman who was fatally injured in…

The coronavirus pandemic paralyzed the economy, stopped travel and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. She changed the world in ways that would have been unthinkable a year ago. The first days of the Biden administration were…