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The team identified that front-line essential workers should be a vaccination priority along with or shortly after seniors. Prioritising who receives the limited supply of COVID-19 vaccines available can save …

Wearing a face mask can protect yourself and others from Covid-19, but the type of material and how many fabric layers used can significantly affect exposure risk, found a new …

(Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where we aim to take the jargon out of science and put the fun in. Click here.) A colossal dinosaur dug up …

As Covid-19 runs rampant across the world, a team of researchers have found associations between certain lifestyle factors and a person’s risk of getting infected. While it has already been …

The researchers spotted defects in the tooth enamel indicative of two childhood bouts of physiological stress such as disease or malnutrition. Sophisticated scanning technology is revealing intriguing secrets about Little …

An epidemiological working definition will be more pragmatic and helpful to assess the magnitude of re-infection in most population and resource constrained settings. Two positive tests at an interval of …

When the researchers created colder conditions, they found that the virus replicated faster than when infections were carried out at 37 degrees Celsius to mimic the lower lung environment. Natural …

Early detection, better data and preventative measures could reduce costs considerably   Disease-carrying mosquitoes, crop-ravaging rodents, forest-eating insects and even the domestic cat are all “exotic” intruders whose cost to …

The study was published in The BMJ today. The increase in risk was not confined to the elderly and was not uniform across ethnic groups, prompting the researchers to suggest …

Experts from the World Health Organization and China jointly conducted the research in China and made an assessment of the likelihood of possible pathways, according to Liang Wannian, head of …

Google collects more data from Android users than Apple does from iOS users, a new research report states. Researchers from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, compared the data that a Pixel …

Having a firm idea of when our closest human relatives disappeared is considered a key first step toward understanding more about their nature and capabilities, as well as why they …

Young western lowland gorillas playing. (Photo by Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images) PA Images via Getty Images The future typically isn’t bright for motherless young animals. Research has found …

They found a 71% rise in twinning rates in North America, as well as significant rises in many European countries and in Asia (Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly …

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched a sounding rocket to study attitudinal variations in the neutral winds and plasma dynamics from Sriharikota spaceport. ISRO has developed a series …

Artist’s impression of DART spacecraft at the asteroid binary. NASA/Johns Hopkins APL The strange binary Asteroid 65803 Didymos-Dimorphos could be held together like dust bunnies, says an international team of …

Mirimus lab scientists preparing to test COVID-19 samples from recovered patients on April 8, 2020 in Brooklyn, New York. Misha Friedman | Getty Images A type of T-cell responsible for …

The samples were collected by gently swabbing a skin area rich in sebum such as the face, neck or back Non-invasive skin swab samples may be enough to detect the …

According to the teams’ simulations, the planet lost between most of its water between four to 3.7 billion years ago Billions of years ago, Mars was home to lakes and …

Bone defect is a serious problem for people with diabetes after fractures, but a new technique involving 3D bioprinting of a ‘scaffold’ for bone repair offers for the first time …

The study was published today (Tuesday) in the European Heart Journal. Until now, little has been known about the trade-offs between the health benefits of physical activity taking place outdoors …

The collapsed Tambora as seen from space. Wikipedia/NAS Approximately 20 supervolcanos are known around the world. One of the most famous is the Yellowstone Caldera in the U.S.. Yellowstone is …

A single dose of Pfizer or Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines was 80% effective in preventing coronavirus infections, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study of vaccinated health-care …

The WHO’s chief said Monday that all hypotheses on the Covid-19 pandemic’s origins remained open and needed further study, having read the report from international experts’ mission to Wuhan. “All …

A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a …

As Mexican and foreign tourists head to the country’s beaches for Holy Week, prompting fears of a new wave of COVID-19 infections, the government here has publicly confirmed what many …