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Tests with rodents suggest an mRNA vaccine in development offers protection against three strains of Ebola virus, including ...

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Maui in Hawaii experienced some of the worst wildfires in US history in 2023. Amid concerns of a PTSD epidemic, flotation ...

Vaccine misinformation, nurse and doctor shortages and crowded living arrangements may be behind soaring rates of diphtheria ...

Silvia Park, author of the May read for the New Scientist Book Club, 'Luminous' on emotional artificial intelligence, our ...

Life on the International Space Station may feel distant, but columnist Graham Lawton finds that studying how astronauts ...

Annalee Newitz is a science journalist and author. Their novel Autonomous won the Lambda Literary Award and they are the ...

Artificial intelligence built by OpenAI has cracked a decades-old conjecture by Paul Erdős, which mathematicians have hailed ...

Some people experience vivid, incessant dreams that leave them feeling exhausted the next day, with researchers calling for ...

Storing carbon dioxide in rocks while producing hydrogen from them - and perhaps even geothermal power too - could be a ...

Women appear cognitively normal for almost three years longer than men after their brains start to develop Alzheimer’s ...