A 12-member team of researchers was awarded the 2020 ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for research involving COVID-19.
During Science LIVE with Roger Billings last week, Billings shared information about the special element, bismuth.
As of September, the United States has hit $16 billion in disasters, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
A new study published in Plos Genetics suggests that DNA sequence analyses of Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes show an interbreeding event that happened 200-300kya and open up insights into the ancestors of modern humans.
A report on Neanderthals in Current Biology found that some present-day humans carry a variant of the Neanderthal sodium channel, causing them to have increased pain sensitivity.
The National Science Foundation found that a certain large group of flowering plants called rosids have been evolving at twice the rate in temperate zones versus in the tropics, according to a press release from the National Science Foundation.
New research by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) may be able to explain why some individuals have extensive scarring from heart attacks than others, according to a UCLA release.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope caught an image of a shadow across a young star that has been nicknamed the "Bat Shadow," according to a press release from NASA.
The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment found a connection between air pollution and infant mortality, a Stanford news release states.
Engineers have put thousands of artificial brain synapses on a chip that is smaller than a piece of confetti, MIT News reported.
A study looked at prolonged sleep deprivation and the gut's role in fruit flies, according to the Havard Gazette.
Geophysicists at Yale University have found that the earth's tectonic plates are more than 4 billion years old, YaleNews reported.
A new study by a University of Colorado-Boulder professor found that longing for a partner is just as important as having one, according to a press release from the university.
A study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found young children with sleep problems and a sibling with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more likely to be diagnosed with ASD than those who are at-risk but don't have sleep issues, according to a NIH press release.
A recent study by the National Science Foundation found that people who currently live in Eurasia have genetic material linked to Neanderthals from the Altai mountains in present-day Siberia, according to a press release from the foundation.
Scientists at the University of California in San Diego have found that behaviors are regulated by the circadian clock and when these behaviors are irregular, it increases an individual's risk of disease, according to a university-issued press release.
A 2019 Nobel prize winner, William G. Kaelin, started out looking at a condition that led to kidney cancer, but, instead, discovered a way to treat anemia.
A new center for innovation and manufacturing is planned for the the Boston, Massachusetts area to help patients who have not responded to traditional medicines.