For the vast majority of the pandemic, the age group with the highest case rates has been 18 to 24 in the U.S.,

as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes.

Many COVID-19 recoverees are plagued by often life-derailing symptoms such as breathing problems, deep fatigue, joint pain, ‘brain fog’ and heart palpitations.

Governments that ignore or delay acting on scientific advice are missing out on a crucial opportunity to control the pandemic.

Science News, April 27, 2021

Researchers are sifting through symptoms to figure out what the virus does to the brain.

A vast site in north-west Saudi Arabia is home to 1000 structures that date back more than 7000 years, making them older than the Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge in the UK.

Mathematics is massive area of study – from statistics, to probability, to chaos. It’s a wide world, which means there are also some odd jobs and areas of study that fly under the big umbrella of numbers.

It was lysozyme, an enzyme that attacks the cell walls of bacteria—and just as with the celebrated antibiotic, he found it through pure serendipity.

Sixty thousand years ago, when rhino-sized wombats, giant echidnas and carnivorous kangaroos roamed the country, Aboriginal Australians were just making their way onto the shores.

Anesthesia is very different from sleep — which is why it offers unique opportunities for studying the human brain, says physician-researcher and statistician Emery Brown.

It is impossible to predict exactly where the pieces that don't burn up in the atmosphere might land.

It seems the rise of private space companies is going to make it easier for regular people to experience space.

The Moon holds Earth’s 23.5-degree tilt steady. Without our satellite, the planet would wobble, dramatically affecting seasons and climate.

Despite being planet Earth’s closest neighbor, scientists remained ignorant of what Venus’ surface even looked like for well into the 20th century, thanks to its incredibly dense and opaque atmosphere.

So successful is tiny Mars helicopter Ingenuity that NASA’s decided to extend its mission.

Deer can regrow their antlers, and humans can replace their liver. What else might be possible?

In this new effort, the researchers have extended an origami design called a waterbomb tessellation—it involves creating a single wheel that can have two configurations.

New home in shape of boulder is first legally habitable property with load-bearing walls made using 3D-printing technology.

Real scalpels, artificial intelligence — what could go wrong?

It lets us excavate ancient fossils while preserving information about the sediments that hold them—crucial to understanding their age, among other things.

New research has found that by eating just one cup of nitrate-rich vegetables each day people can significantly reduce their risk of heart disease.

Pollen season increased by 20 days annually between 1990 and 2018, while pollen concentrations in North America increased 21 percent over the same time period.

Everyone can exercise at home. During the pandemic, life has been different and lots of people have started doing online workouts.

Not to burst anyone’s water bottle, but healthy people can actually die from drinking too much water.

"Most consumers have no idea that something that is allowed in the food supply by the FDA could trigger adverse behaviors."

Within days, a couple weeks at most, the cicadas of Brood X (the X is the Roman numeral for 10) will emerge after 17 years underground.

Some estimates put the stone at more than a half-foot wide.

Modern human-like brains may have emerged in an evolutionary sprint about 1.7 million years ago

Reconstructing the emergence and weathering of Earth’s continental crust in the Archean eon is crucial for our understanding of early ocean chemistry, biosphere evolution and the onset of plate tectonics.

Mammoth moth which can have 25cm [9.84 inches] wingspan found by builders working on Queensland primary school

The goal is to educate tourists about conservation efforts while offering them the chance to explore nature.

The oxidizing chemicals hydroxyl and hydroperoxyl may clean the skies of harmful pollutants by reacting with them

In a hotter climate, dirt is a hot commodity.

"These troubling findings add to the urgency of reining in pesticide use to save biodiversity."

It’s a paradise. At least it was before the heat wave.

Compared with previous 30-year periods, the climate has turned unambiguously warmer.

"We need to reinvent our relationship with planet Earth. The future of all life on this planet—humans and our societies included—requires us to become effective stewards of the global commons."

Solar and wind potential is far higher than that of fossil fuels and can meet global energy demand many times over.

Vastly different climate approaches outlined by Biden and House GOP members.

New research shows that California’s climate policy created up to 39 million carbon credits that aren’t achieving real carbon savings. But companies can buy these forest offsets to justify polluting more anyway.