More than thirty million years ago, monkeys rafted across the Atlantic to South America ~science biology.paleo Article 1062 words 12 votes
Australian scientists have made a test to check who is likely to develop coronavirus ~science biology medicine Article 245 words 3 votes
Shimmering schools of fish have dazzled scientists for centuries with their synchronized maneuvers. Now, high-speed video is revealing how—and why—they do it ~science biology.marine Link 6 votes
Scientists in Melbourne are testing a drug used to fight parasitic worms and bugs – in the hope of destroying coronavirus ~health medicine Article 227 words 3 votes
Coronavirus: CSIRO scientists begin vaccine testing in global COVID-19 milestone ~health medicine Article 411 words 4 votes
World-first tool to help medicos detect COVID-19 could save 'thousands of lives' ~science biology medicine Article 562 words 3 votes
Labs are euthanizing thousands of mice in response to coronavirus pandemic ~science biology medicine Article 1547 words 10 votes
Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: results of an open-label non-randomized clinical trial ~science biology medicine Article 223 words 10 votes
Microbial life has been found deep in Earth's crust beneath the ocean floor ~science biology.micro Article 484 words 8 votes
New blood tests for antibodies could show true scale of coronavirus pandemic ~science biology medicine Article 1100 words 8 votes
Testing the efficacy of homemade masks: Would they protect in an influenza pandemic? ~science biology Link 8 votes
An ancient Elpistostege fish fossil found in Miguasha, Canada has revealed new insights into how the human hand evolved from fish fins ~science biology Article 1026 words 5 votes
Planetary science decadal survey to include astrobiology and planetary defense ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 582 words 3 votes
Melbourne researchers have mapped immune responses from one of Australia’s first novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, showing the body’s ability to fight the virus and recover from the infection ~science biology medicine Link 9 votes
Scientists successfully created a cybernetic neural network ~science biology Article 1485 words 10 votes
21-yr-old student from Pune and the curious case of her changing hands – intergender and interrace double-hand transplant ~science medicine biology Article 1126 words 21 votes
Coronavirus COVID-19 models are starting to give us an idea of what a pandemic would look like, but there's still so much we don't know ~science biology Article 1148 words 11 votes
"Both studies ... sought to pin down how many times the human brain oscillates in and out of focus per minute." ~science biology Article 1217 words, published Aug 22 2018 6 votes
Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19 ~health Article 753 words, published Feb 27 2020 21 votes
Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time ~science biology Article 830 words 5 votes
Saving Grace, featuring Robert Plant and Suzi Dian, cancels Faroe Islands festival set due to country's whaling operation ~music Article 276 words 4 votes
Computational predictions of protein structures associated with COVID-19 ~science biology.micro Article 641 words 5 votes
This marsupial, the swamp wallaby, is the only animal that's always pregnant ~science biology Article 632 words 10 votes
“We are at a turning point”: The coronavirus outbreak is looking more like a pandemic ~health medicine Article 2420 words 14 votes
Giant phages have been found in French lakes, baboons from Kenya, and the human mouth ~science biology.molecular Article 567 words 10 votes
'Ghost' DNA from unknown ancestors found in West Africans ~science biology anthropology Article 736 words 9 votes
Dopamine and temporal difference learning: A fruitful relationship between neuroscience and AI ~science biology Article 2065 words, published Jan 15 2020 4 votes
Forget face masks and rubber gloves. The best way to avoid the coronavirus is frequent hand washing, according to a medical adviser to the world’s airlines. ~health medicine Article 12 votes
A British cobbler had his thumb replaced with a big toe. He’d lost the digit while mending a shoe, but is now back at work with a toe grafted onto his hand. ~science medicine biology Article 265 words, published Jan 27 2020 5 votes
Scientists just used a supercomputer to make a living organism from scratch ~science biology Video 11:04 2 votes
The real experiments that inspired Frankenstein ~science biology Video 9:52, published May 10 2019 3 votes
Australians are increasingly being diagnosed with cancers that will do them no harm if left undetected or untreated. ~science biology medicine Text 21 words A news article: Patients suffer invasive treatments for harmless cancers The study itself: Estimating the magnitude of cancer overdiagnosis in Australia 11 votes
A watershed moment for protein structure prediction ~science biology.micro Article 1233 words 14 votes
New microscopy technique shows cells’ 3D ultrastructure in new detail ~science biology.micro biology.cellular Link 7 votes
Iceland didn't hunt any whales in 2019 – and public appetite for whale meat is fading ~enviro Article 1078 words 6 votes
The Chinese paddlefish, one of world's largest fish, has gone extinct ~enviro Article 1030 words 3 votes
Gene-drive technology could alter entire species, help eliminate malaria and prevent extinctions, but assessing the risks is difficult ~science biology medicine Article 8033 words 8 votes
Mysterious disappearance of Greenland's medieval Norse society in the 15th century came after walruses were hunted almost to extinction, researchers have said ~humanities.history Article 278 words 4 votes