COVID-19 Risk Doesn't Depend (Much) on Blood Type, New Studies Find
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers found preliminary evidence suggesting that people's blood type might be an important risk factor -- both for being infected by the virus and for falling dangerously ill.But over the past few months, after looking at thousands of additional patients with COVID-19, scientists are reporting a much weaker link to blood type.Two studies -- one at the...
Universe is 13.8 billion years old, scientists confirm
The universe is about 13.8 billion years old, according to new research recently published by an international team of...
New artificial skin will allow robots to detect touch and textures
It can sense touches more than 10,000 times faster than the human nervous...
The Army Is Building an Anti-Gravity, Water-Purifying Solar Panel
The revolutionary design could advance science for soldiers—and the...
NASA to reveal closest images ever taken of the sun
The solar orbiter is bringing humans closer to our host star than we've ever been...
Desert telescope takes aim at ageing our Universe
A telescope high in the Atacama Desert in Chile enters the debate about the age of the...
Nuclear blast sends star hurtling across galaxy
A star has been sent hurtling across the galaxy after undergoing a partial supernova, astronomers...