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Omicron: What Is Known — and Still Unknown

Intense research into the new coronavirus variant first identified in southern Africa has just begun. World leaders have urged people not to panic — and to get vaccinated, if they can.

"What is going on right now is inevitable," said African Union Vaccine Delivery Alliance co-chair Dr. Ayoade Alakija. "It's a result of the world's failure to vaccinate in an equitable, urgent, and speedy manner."

Patients who have long COVID are desperate for answers that doctors might not have.

More than 500 mammal species are high-risk candidates for carrying the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID, based on a new study of common traits among species with a protein gateway for the virus.

Science and technology have evolved, but some things may always be beyond human knowledge.

The Renaissance, a period in European history between the 14th and 17th centuries, breathed new life into both science and art.

The remains are thought to be of a man aged 18-22 at the time of his death, with his hands covering his face.

Feynman had won a Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work developing the first quantum theory of electromagnetism. Within the scientific community, he was already considered one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the 20th century.

The solution to our puzzle about Euler’s number explains why e pops up in situations that involve optimality.

Beneath the National Museum of American History, floodwaters are intruding into collection rooms, a consequence of a warming planet. A fix remains years away.

The Red Planet’s unearthly environment will play a key role in how future astronauts — and martian settlers — handle their dead.

Curtin University researchers have helped unravel the enduring mystery of the origins of the Earth’s water, finding the Sun to be a surprising likely source.  

Our neighboring world – orbiting one step inward from Earth around the sun – is the 3rd-brightest object in the sky, after the sun and moon.

"This significant breakthrough is a step toward developing a deeper understanding of these elusive particles and the role they play in the universe."

New images of the solar system’s giants give astronomers insight into atmospheric activity on other worlds. 

You have high-frequency radio waves to thank for your wireless internet access.

An ultra-porous humidity sponge could provide 300 gallons of fresh water a day.

Researchers can now design and mass-produce genetic material — a technique that helped build the mRNA vaccines. What could it give us next?

Renewables will account for about 95% of growth in global power-generation capacity up to the end of 2026, finds energy agency.

Researchers developed a new optogenetic tool, 'Opto-vTrap', which is expected to contribute to treatment for epilepsy, muscle spasms, and skin wrinkles.

Over the last few weeks, the revelations from the Facebook Papers, a collection of internal documents provided to Congress and a consortium of news organizations by whistleblower Frances Haugen, have reaffirmed what civil society groups have been saying for years.

Read on to learn which countries not only serve up delicious cuisine but also healthy fare. Do not read this while hungry!

Check the map, select your state/city/town for information. Since 2013, water utilities' testing has found pollutants in Americans' tap water, according to an EWG drinking water quality analysis of more than 31 million state water records.

There are often alternatives to these drugs that healthcare professionals should consider for those individuals.

With the weather turning cooler and the pandemic still a part of our lives, ensuring that we feel comfortable lying down to get enough quality sleep can help keep us healthy.

What we eat needs to be nutritious and sustainable. Researchers are trying to figure out what that looks like around the world.

Some fungi have emerged as recent threats to human health, causing problems that are hard to diagnose and hard to treat.

Bounty of acorns may be a sign of next spring’s weather.

Gold is a versatile and unique metal, here's how it forms and used.

Before anesthesia entered operating theaters around the mid-19th century, surgeons would use alcohol, narcotics and the occasional knock to the head to take away some of the pain during surgery.

Hidden down a well for decades, the stunningly complete cranium is stirring debate about the increasing number of fossils that don’t neatly fit in the classic human origin story.

Mycorrhizal fungal networks are a major global carbon sink. When we destroy them, we sabotage our efforts to limit global heating.

Concerns about “greenwashing,” a term coined in the 1980s to describe the practice of organizations marketing their products as environmentally friendly when they are not, have persisted into the current climate crisis.

From air pollution to oil spills, human-caused disasters can grow out of control.

More rain than snow will fall in the Arctic – and this transition will occur decades earlier than previously predicted, a new study reports.

At 42 million metric tons of plastic waste a year, the US generates more waste than all EU countries combined.

The increasing frequency of dead zones will affect billions of people who rely on the ocean for survival.

After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now shifting to a new strategy: presenting itself as the source of solutions.

The Arctic Ocean has been getting warmer since the beginning of the 20th century -- decades earlier than records suggest -- due to warmer water flowing into the delicate polar ecosystem from the Atlantic Ocean.

Despite the concerns of the authors, the scientific evidence from the latest IPCC reports was explicitly acknowledged in the Glasgow Climate Pact.

While the industry has an important role to play in moving to low-carbon economies it’s also hugely carbon intensive and predicted to become more so.

"Greenlighting more fossil fuel extraction, then pretending it's OK by nudging up royalty rates, is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic," said one campaigner.