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These asymptomatic infections can undermine efforts to eliminate malaria.

The final efficacy analysis of its late-stage trial suggest Pfizer and BioNtech's vaccine is safe and effective at preventing COVID-19.

Scientists have identified an old piece of the Pacific Ocean – the ancient remains of its long-ago seabed – extending hundreds of miles unde...

Here's why we need monoclonal antibodies to the coronavirus as well as a vaccine.

Archaeologists recently discovered the skeleton of a medieval soldier and his weapons at the bottom of a lake, the first such find in Lithua...

A new study suggests as early as September of last year, but some experts are skeptical.

The more religious a country or state, the bigger the gap in earnings between men and women.

The number of mummy-filled coffins found in a series of burial shafts at Saqqara in Egypt keeps growing, archaeologists with the Egyptian Mi...

An explosion on the slopes of Stromboli sent pyroclastic flow down the Italian volcano on Monday (Nov. 16).

It turns out that survival of the fittest may be an overrated concept.

A deadly virus that causes fevers, abdominal pain, vomiting, bleeding gums, skin rash and pain behind the eyes can now jump from one person...

This comes a week after Pfizer announced similar results, providing hope that the world may soon have multiple vaccines that work effectivel...

The study researchers recruited some brave human and canine volunteers for a unique experiment.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule launched its first operational space taxi flight for NASA Sunday (Nov. 15).

Planning to attend an event but unsure of the COVID-19 risk, and if you should go at all? There's an evidence-based interactive webtool that...

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust the obesity epidemic once again into the spotlight, revealing that obesity is no longer a disease that harm...

What took out the trilobites, whose fossils are found all over the world?

The best place for life on Mars might be more than a kilometre below its surface!

It was either because New Year's Day used to be March 1 or because the Romans used to have a 10-month calendar.

Watch here as SpaceX launches its first fully crewed mission to the International Space Station (despite mounting pre-launch woes).

Changes previously thought to be sex differences in a human relative are actually due to microevolution, a new study finds.

Both COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are rising rapidly and exponentially, shattering records set in the spring.

A man searching for mushrooms in a forest in the Czech Republic uncovered an ancient sword and bronze axe, both thought to date from around...

A 3,000-year-old fort containing a carving of mysterious horned figures has been discovered in the Golan Heights. And it may have been built...

Two neutron stars slammed together far away from Earth, and the Hubble may have spotted a magnetar emerging from the aftermath.