A COVID-19 vaccine isn't the only tool for fighting this pandemic. An immunologist argues that safe pneumonia vaccines…
Health statisticians keep careful tabs on how many people die every week. Based on what's happened in past years, they…
As ready as you are to be done with COVID-19, it's not going anywhere soon. A historian of disease describes how once…
A new study is the first to identify sex differences in inflammation and immune cell activation in response to SARS-CoV-2…
Fake videos generated with sophisticated AI tools are a looming threat. Researchers are racing to build tools that can detect…
Patients suffering from severe COVID-19 may be experiencing a rogue antibody response similar to that seen in autoimmune…
Most scientific discoveries these days aren't easily ascribed to a single researcher. CRISPR is no different – and…
When a celebrity, politician or other influential person checks in, a health care team can feel pressured to give in to…
Setting up an online scam can be as simple as registering a domain name, signing up for an online payment account and copying…
The 2020 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine goes to the discoverers of the hepatitis C virus. There's an effective…
Artificial brains are far in the future, but computer chips that work like brains could keep computers advancing when today's…
The Trump administration wants to go it alone when it comes to vaccine development and distribution. What does this mean…
To understand the risks of wildfire smoke, it helps to understand the chemicals people are breathing.
Society has never faced more pressing challenges. Researchers are investigating how monetary prizes can help focus innovators'…
Unfairness alone is upsetting enough to drive people to punish lucky recipients of unfair outcomes.
With 3% of science Nobels going to women and zero going to Black people, these awards are an extreme example of how certain…
The effect of a warmer climate on ecosystems and large and small vertebrates is being widely studied. But warmer temperatures…
The gender gap in computing performance has dramatically narrowed, but a confidence gap remains.
How ancient microbes survived in a world without oxygen has been a mystery. Scientists discovered a living microbial mat…
Researchers are developing tattoo inks that do more than make pretty colors. Some can sense chemicals, temperature and UV…