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The mouse embryos looked completely normal. All of her organs developed as expected, along with her limbs, as well as the circulatory and nervous systems. Their tiny hearts beat at a normal 170 beats per minute.But these embryos did not…

Scientists in Oregon have discovered a native version of a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus that first appeared in the UK - but now combined with a mutation that may make the variant less susceptible to vaccines.The researchers…

A small group of scientists and others who believe the novel coronavirus that started the pandemic could be due to a laboratory leak or accident are calling for an investigation, independent of the World Health Organization's team of…

A traveler wearing a face mask is seen at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia on February 2, 2021.Ting Shen | Xinhua News Agency | Getty ImagesMore than a dozen top scientists are calling on the Biden…

Scientists are calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to rapidly set standards to limit airborne transmission of the coronavirus in high-risk environments such as meat packers and prisons.The surge comes almost a year…

Almost a year after scientists showed that the coronavirus can be inhaled in tiny droplets called aerosols that linger in stagnant indoor air, more than a dozen experts are calling on the Biden government to take immediate action to stop…

In the summer, Dr. Michael Mina signed a contract with a cold storage company. With many of its restaurant customers closed, the company had freezers available. And Dr. Mina, an epidemiologist at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health,…

"Had we set it up in 2019, when this virus hit the US, we would have had instant access to data that would have enabled us to see it floating around, for example, in New York City without doing anything else," said Dr. Said Mina.Updated…

LONDON - UK government scientists are increasingly realizing that the variant of coronavirus, first discovered in the UK, is more deadly than the original virus. This is a devastating trend that highlights the serious risks of this new…

Einsteinium is an element with a famous name that almost no one has heard of.With 99 protons and 99 electrons, it's in the dark at the bottom of the periodic table of the chemical elements between California and fermium. It first appeared…