Open-source machine learning tool connects drug targets with adverse reactions

Scientists develop AI-based tool to predict adverse drug events. Such events are responsible for some 2…

Food deliveries during virus lockdown fuel Thailand plastic usage

Single-use plastic waste in Thailand ballooned during the coronavirus lockdown as demand for home food deliveries…

Virus crisis gives throwaway plastic a new lease on life

Just when you thought it was beyond the social and environmental pale, single-use plastic is making…

Researchers take a bloody good look at the medicinal leech genome

The results of new research published this week in Scientific Reports reveal insights that may have…

Researchers study catastrophic disease events in marine mammals

As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the globe, people are beginning to understand, at a very…

New evidence of virus risks from wildlife trade

Animals sold in markets and restaurants in Southeast Asia harbour multiple coronaviruses, study shows. …

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano imagines human voyages to an asteroid

We have telescopes that scan the skies for asteroids. We have landed a spacecraft on a…

The Milky Way is about to completely obliterate a neighbouring galaxy

One of the Milky Way’s neighbour galaxies has been disrupting our galaxy’s disk for billions of…

Violin-makers tune in to tradition of Stradivarius in Italy's Cremona

Working in the shadow of the great masters, the violin-makers of Italy’s Cremona are valiantly fighting…

NASA's next Mars rover honors medical teams fighting virus

NASA’s next Mars rover is honoring all the medical workers on the front lines of the…