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SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease, uses a receptor called angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) to gain entry into human...

A team of researchers from Austria, the U.S., the UK, and Italy has demonstrated a new technology called microwave quantum illumination that uses entangled...

An international team of researchers has discovered and dated the remains of Homo sapiens and associated artifacts — including pendants manufactured...

A team of researchers from the United States and Canada has found evidence for 4.55-billion-year-old sodium-rich alkaline fluids in the Tagish Lake meteorite,...

Astronomers have discovered a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star or a brown dwarf around 7,580 parsecs (24,723 light-years) from Earth. An artist’s...

Higher long-term dietary intakes of flavonoid-rich foods, such as berries, apples and tea, are associated with lower risks of Alzheimer’s disease and...

Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatories have observed a 3-million-light-year-long bridge of hot gas linking two unequal...

JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft recently traveled to the near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu to collect samples and return them to Earth for lab analysis....

A large international team of researchers has conducted the first in-depth, wide-scale study of the genomic history of pre-Columbian Andean civilizations...

Neanderthals selected rib bones from specific animals to make the lissoirs (French for ‘smoothers’), which are bone tools that have been intentionally...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of a spiral galaxy called NGC 5861. This Hubble image shows NGC 5861, an intermediate spiral galaxy...

Using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, and Magellan II Telescope at Las Campanas Observator in Chile, astronomers...

Astronomers using the MeerKAT telescope at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cape Town, South Africa, have solved a longstanding mystery...

A protein-coding gene called GB45239 is responsible for thelytokous parthenogenesis — the ability to produce daughters asexually — in the Cape...

Multiwavelength observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and Gemini Observatory combined with close-up views from NASA’s Juno spacecraft...

Green tea supplementation is associated with a decrease in body weight and body mass index in obese patients, according to a new systematic review and...

Neuroscientists at the Allen Institute for Brain Science have released the third version of their Allen Mouse Brain Common Coordinate Framework (CCFv3). Wang...

An international team of paleontologists from the University of Plymouth, the University of Kansas and the Forge Fossils has found a specimen of the squid-like...

While the present-day Martian surface is generally dry and cold, its sedimentary rocks contain compelling evidence for the former presence of liquid water....