Humans
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Health & Medicine
Treatments that target the coronavirus in the nose might help prevent COVID-19
Scientists are developing and testing ways to prevent the virus from settling in prime nasal real estate.
- Health & Medicine
College athletes show signs of possible heart injury after COVID-19
Four of 26 college athletes, who had mild or asymptomatic COVID-19, may have had myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle.
- Humans
Drones find signs of a Native American ‘Great Settlement’ beneath a Kansas pasture
An earthwork buried under a cattle ranch may be part of one of the largest Native American settlements ever established north of Mexico.
- Health & Medicine
Here’s what pausing the AstraZeneca-Oxford coronavirus vaccine trial really means
A coronavirus vaccine trial was paused after a volunteer had a possible adverse reaction. Such routine measures help ensure new vaccines are safe.
- Health & Medicine
A sobering breakdown of severe COVID-19 cases shows young adults can’t dismiss it
Of about 3,200 people ages 18 to 34 hospitalized with COVID-19, nearly a quarter entered intensive care, and 10 percent were placed on ventilators.
- Anthropology
A stray molar is the oldest known fossil from an ancient gibbon
A newly described tooth puts ancestors of these small-bodied apes in India roughly 13 million years ago.
- Health & Medicine
Steroids reduce deaths of critically ill COVID-19 patients, WHO confirms
The finding strengthens evidence that clinicians should give the drugs to people who are severely sick from the coronavirus.
- Health & Medicine
50 years ago, scientists were trying to develop a low-emission car
Electric cars have surged in popularity, but the vehicles still contribute to greenhouse gas emissions.
- Archaeology
Stonehenge enhanced sounds like voices or music for people inside the monument
Scientists created a scale model one-twelfth the size of the ancient stone circle to study its acoustics.
- Health & Medicine
New coronavirus tests promise to be faster, cheaper and easier
Researchers are developing a smorgasbord of tests to detect RNA and proteins from the virus that causes COVID-19.
- Health & Medicine
How four summer camps in Maine prevented COVID-19 outbreaks
More than 1,000 kids and staff members from all over the country attended the camps, but only three people ended up testing positive for the virus.
- Humans
Puberty can repair the brain’s stress responses after hardship early in life
Puberty may erase the shadow of trauma for children who had a difficult start.
