SCIENCE

New Rapid COVID-19 Test CoVarScan Can Identify Different Variants in Hours Claim Researchers

A team of researchers has developed a rapid COVID-19 test that might help identify different variants of the SARS-CoV-2 in just hours.

After…

COVID-19 vaccines saved 20 million lives during their 1st year

Nearly 20 million lives were saved by COVID-19 vaccines during their first year, but even more deaths could have been prevented if international targets…

Tropical Storm Colin dissipates over eastern North Carolina

Tropical Storm Colin dissipated over eastern North Carolina early Sunday, just 24 hours after becoming a named storm.

Gusty winds, scattered…

SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted by exposure to infectious respiratory fluids

The principal mode by which people are infected with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) is through exposure to respiratory fluids carrying…

Scientists Engineer Synthetic DNA To Study Architect Genes: Building Artificial Hox Genes Enables Researchers To See How Cells Learn Their Location In The Body

Researchers at New York University have created artificial Hox genes — which plan and direct where cells go to develop tissues or organs…

UK-built Forum satellite will measure greenhouse effect

A spacecraft measuring Earth's warming 'greenhouse' effect in its greatest ever detail will be built in the UK.

The Forum satellite will be…

New map of ancient trees an opportunity for conservation

A new map shows there could be around two million trees with exceptional environmental and cultural value previously unrecorded in England.

That's…

Nearly a quarter of Earths seafloor now mapped

Slowly but surely the proportion of the global ocean floor that's been properly mapped is rising.

It's now up to just shy of a quarter of the…