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Alex Raths | Getty ImagesScientists may have found promising new treatment for Covid-19 after an experimental oral antiviral drug demonstrated the ability to prevent the coronavirus from replicating, the National Institutes of Health said…

As scientists find more animal coronaviruses, they can recognize more and more pieces of SARS-CoV-2 spread out among them. Researchers have also been able to reconstruct some of the evolutionary steps by which SARS-CoV-2 evolved into a…

Immunity to the coronavirus lasts at least a year, possibly a lifetime, improving over time especially after vaccination, according to two new studies. The findings may help put to rest lingering fears that protection against the virus will…

What are some of these connections?Thomas Knutson, climate researcher at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has published a number of articles since 2019, including a recent review of the research on the sciencebrief.org…

People without masks walk in Times Square on May 19, 2021 in New York City.John Smith | VIEW press | Corbis News | Getty ImagesThe CDC's new mask guidelines could actually increase the risk of spreading Covid-19 in public spaces and…

Coronavirus variants will pose a lingering threat to the United States, with the potential to spread quickly and affect vaccine effectiveness, scientists told a House panel on Wednesday."We need to make sure that the tools we use to detect,…

Polje, blanket, vuggy, psammit. Some scientists studying caves may not turn a blind eye, but for the rest of us these terms might as well be ancient Greek.The technical terminology does not only apply to the ivory tower. For example, ask…

Seit Wochen ist die Stimmung in weiten Teilen der USA lebhaft. Fälle, Krankenhausaufenthalte und Todesfälle durch das Coronavirus sind stark von ihren Höchstständen gefallen, und täglich werden Millionen von Menschen neu geimpft.…

He then led the development of the Goddard Institute's Earth System Model, a giant computer program that can simulate the planet's climate system and show how phenomena such as rising carbon dioxide levels lead to warming. Over time, he…

WASHINGTON - The idea of ​​artificially cooling the planet to dull climate change - and actually block sunlight before it can warm the atmosphere - was reinforced Thursday when an influential scientific institution asked the U.S. government…