Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The congressional hearing, noscriptd "Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election," focussed on how the Big Tech companies handled…

Injections of pain-relief medication into the affected joints is one of the primary ways physicians treat discomfort in sufferers of osteoarthritis, but the effects don’t last forever. A novel technique that involves directing low-grade radiofrequency energy…

Evidence suggests that humans' sleep was once disjointed, but researchers can't quite figure out why.

A study conducted by the University of Granada and the Andalusian School of Public Health has analyzed the main risk factors in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during the national lockdown in Spain, including going out to work or living with patients diagnosed…

Short bursts of physical exercise induce changes in the body's levels of metabolites that correlate to, and may help gauge, an individual's cardiometabolic, cardiovascular and long-term health, a study by Massachusetts General Hospital has found. Approximately…

A South Dakota emergency room nurse on Monday expressed frustration that many of her patients don't believe they are dying of COVID-19.

The bodies and brains of fathers, not just mothers, are transformed through the love and labour of raising a child

There are no robust data on the real onset of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and spread in the prepandemic period worldw...

Edwidge Danticat: Families are elders long buried and generations yet unborn.

The perfect binding ability of SARS-CoV-2 to human cells and the presence of the furin cleavage site, which is new for SARS-like coronaviruses, might derive from genetic manipulation performed during...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (SARS-CoV)-2's origin is still controversial. Genomic analyses show SARS-CoV-2 likely to be chimeric, most of its sequence closest to bat CoV RaTG13, whereas its receptor binding domain (RBD) is almost identical…

Primary efficacy analysis demonstrates BNT162b2 to be 95% effective against COVID-19 beginning 28 days after the first dose; 170 confirmed cases of COVID-19 were evaluated, with 162 observed in the placebo group versus 8 in the vaccine group Efficacy was…

We are designed, scientists realized, not only to remember, but also to forget. The first of the neurotransmitters discovered was named anandamide, Sanskrit for bliss.