In early April, Paul Hiley was kicking back in the executive suite at Desert King International LLC, gazing out the window at the San Diego sunshine and daydreaming about his golf game. California had issued its initial stay-at-home order for COVID-19, but apart from the hand sanitizer around the...
LONDON—U.K. researchers plan to start infecting healthy volunteers with tightly controlled doses of the coronavirus in early 2021 in what they called a first-of-its-kind effort to more rapidly gauge the effectiveness of multiple vaccines against Covid-19.
The plans for so-called human-challenge trials target 18- to 30-year-olds who have been free...
Both air and plastic pollution are serious environmental problems and now a team of researchers has found a link between them.
Plastic waste is a significant threat to the environment, littering even the bottom of the oceans. A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has tried to understand...
This advisory was updated on Monday, Oct. 19, to reflect that the 3 p.m Oct. 19 briefing will be a teleconference, not aired on NASA TV, and to add a social media question-and-answer session later that afternoon.
NASA will broadcast coverage of a first for the agency as its Origins,...
After almost two years circling an ancient asteroid hundreds of millions of miles away, a NASA spacecraft this week will attempt to descend to the treacherous, boulder-packed surface and snatch a handful of rubble.
The drama unfolds Tuesday as the U.S. takes its first crack at collecting asteroid samples for...
Twitter blocked a post from top White House coronavirus adviser Scott Atlas on Sunday that questioned the use of masks as a means of curbing the spread of the illness.
Atlas, who joined the White House in August, wrote, “Masks work? NO,” while adding that the widespread use of face...
Ants are one of the most successful groups of animals on the planet, occupying anywhere from temperate soil to tropical rainforests, desert dunes and kitchen counters. They're social insects and their team-working abilities have long since been identified as one of the key factors leading to their success. Ants...
An international collaboration has provided the first insights into a new type of silk produced by the very unusual Australian basket-web spider, which uses it to build a lobster pot web that protects its eggs and trap prey.
The basket-web spider weaves a silk that is uniquely rigid and so...
