The skull shapes of mammals diversified more rapidly early in their history
Merck unearths a frozen batch of an experimental vaccine it made years ago
Experiments involving eyelid suturing and maternal separation divide scientists
Models suggest rising immunity in a small group of people, not vaccination, is key
Deaths and sufferings are not a failure of technology or knowledge, but a failure of will.
But carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the global reservoir-building spree in the 1960s and 1970s are falling.
A fossilized pile of small bones is probably a meal that an animal heaved up 150 million years ago.
Surrounding an ion of curium with radiation-resistant clusters of other ions allows scientists to study the scarce substance.
Some female white-necked jacobins nab good feeding spots by adopting the flashy plumage of their bigger, brasher male counterparts.
A high-sugar diet unbalances the microbiome, so the body makes fewer of the gut immune cells that help to prevent metabolic disorders.
Death’s-head moths correct course based on an internal “compass,” a new study finds, revealing insights into how insects traverse such long distances during seasonal migrations.
Logistical and ethical challenges are complicating the design of efficacy studies
U.S. Title IX law update requiring mandatory reporting of sexual misconduct would cause harm, they say
Long magnetic lull mimics Maunder Minimum, when sunspots largely disappeared 400 years ago
University of Delaware finding vindicates whistleblowers
Star formation after the big bang appears much faster than models had forecast
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The sudden surge of monkeypox cases outside Africa has alarmed public health authorities around the world. In Europe and North America it’s the first time community transmission has been recorded among people with no links to west or central Africa. So what is happening?
Ian Sample talks to virologist Oyewale Tomori about why monkeypox is flaring up, whether we should fear it, and what we can learn from countries such as Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which have been tackling this virus for decades.
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