Association between morbidity and poverty reversed during early US COVID-19 epidemic

The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the USA was on January 20, 2020 in Washington…

How fish got onto land, and stayed there

Research on blennies, a family of fish that have repeatedly left the sea for land, suggests…

Seaweed takes scientists on trip 'through time' in the waters of Monterey Bay

New research led by Monterey Bay Aquarium is helping to unlock the natural history of one…

New ideas in the search for dark matter

Since the 1980s, researchers have been running experiments in search of particles that make up dark…

New research reveals geographical processes behind perplexing fluvial strata

The Torridon sandstone in northwestern Scotland preserves six kilometers of river sediment from Precambrian times. But…

Research reveals the chemistry behind the bombardier beetle's extraordinary firepower

If you want to see one of the wonders of the natural world, just startle a…

'Relaxed' T cells critical to immune response

Like finding that needle in the haystack every time, your T cells manage what seems like…

Using sunlight to save satellites from a fate of 'space junk'

No satellite stays the same once launched into space. How much it changes can go unnoticed—until…

Honeybee lives shortened after exposure to two widely used pesticides

The lives of honeybees are shortened—with evidence of physiological stress—when they are exposed to the suggested…

The nexus between economic inequality and social welfare

Equity (or, its counterpart, inequity) plays a fundamental role in the evaluation of the different dimensions…