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Studies show that vaccines reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2 by more than 80%, but the Delta variant is creating fresh uncertainty....
The technique vastly speeds up understanding of how the proteins function and how to target drugs.
Some astronomers argue the flagship observatory — successor to the Hubble Space Telescope — will memorialize discrimination....
The trailblazing collaboration that first imaged a black hole turns its sights on a nearby black-hole jet.
A rapidly growing collection of software tools is helping researchers to analyse multiple huge ‘-omics’ data sets.
Science agencies such as ARPA-Health hope to replicate the success of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, but researchers...
A binary star merger has produced a white dwarf with a spin period of under 7 minutes, a magnetic field of 600 to 900 million...
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) messenger RNA (mRNA)-based vaccines are ~95% effective in preventing...