What Does It Mean If a Vaccine Is ‘Successful’?
The pharma companies are all using different playbooks to test their Covid-19 shots, so the first team to claim victory may not have the best formula.
Category: Science
Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice share the award for research on a virus that causes hundreds of thousands of deaths a year. Read More
Using song patterns to predict whale migrations could help us protect them from ship strikes. Read More
Despite pandemic precautions, the common cold and other illnesses are still circulating Read More
Posted by Diane Banegas (ret) and posted by Robert Westover, Office of Communication, USDA Forest Service in Forestry Read More
Does ‘Brain Training’ Actually Work?
If there were an app on your phone that could improve your memory, would you try it? Who wouldn’t want a better memory? After all, our recollections…
NASA has built a brand new system that could make landing on Moon and Mars a whole lot less risky — and it already has plans to… Read More
Chromium steel, commonly referred to as stainless steel, is thought to be a recent manufacturing innovation, but new evidence suggests ancient Persians stumbled upon an early version… Read More
Researchers have discovered the oldest known animal sperm sample, dating back 100 million years. A piece of amber caught dozens of small crustaceans called ostracods in a… Read More
The question of whether we can be reinfected with COVID-19 has been resolved. In August, genome sequencing confirmed that a 33-year-old man in Hong Kong had indeed been infected by the… Read More