Cases are on the rise in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. They had emerged from the early months of the pandemic relatively...

A team including researchers from Seattle's Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason has identified a new pathway for protecting cells from deadly viruses — including the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 as well as the Ebola virus. The technique, described in this week's issue of the journal Science, takes advantage of a screening technique for seeking out new genes that can prevent...

The skull of a dinosaur embryo from Argentina is providing surprising details about baby facial features present in one species from an important dinosaur group called titanosaurs that included the largest land animals that have ever lived on Earth. "We used to get excited about the skeletons of giant dinosaurs but it always makes a difference when we get to look inside the eggs of these giants,"...

Germany's Continental, the world's third-biggest auto parts supplier, played a big part in the Nazi's armaments and war economy, using forced labourers to make products such as gas masks, a study presented by the company showed on Thursday. Conti commissioned the independent research by historian Paul Erker to explore the darkest chapter of the company's history. "The study shows that...

Climbers tackling Mount Everest are twice as likely to make it to the summit and slightly less likely to die than two decades ago, despite a sharp increase in crowding in the so-called "death zone", a study released on Wednesday showed. Between 2006 and 2019, around two thirds of climbers were successful in their attempt to reach the summit, compared to around a third in the preceding 15 years,...

Germany's Continental, the world's third-biggest auto parts supplier, played a big part in the Nazi's armaments and war economy, using forced labourers to make products such as gas masks, a study presented by the company showed on Thursday. Conti commissioned the independent research by historian Paul Erker to explore the darkest chapter of the company's history. "The study shows that...

The Arctic Ocean is warming by a degree each decade in the highest rice since the last Ice Age, a newly-published 40-year study has shown. Scientists say this rapid heating is a threat to the Arctic ice, and temperatures have risen far more sharply than their models predicted. New research by the University of Copenhagen, published in Nature Climate Change, compares current temperature changes in...

Studies on the new coronavirus and other germs show wearing a mask helps stop infected people from spreading disease to others. Surgical or cloth face masks can block most of those particles from spreading. While some droplets may still spread out, wearing a mask could reduce the amount, providing a benefit to...

Microsoft, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Washington are playing supporting roles in the White House's $1 billion effort to advance research into artificial intelligence and quantum information science. Those three organizations have already been working together through the Northwest Quantum Nexus to develop the infrastructure for quantum computers, which...

The latest data from an early Phase I study includes an analysis from 20 additional people detailing how the vaccine performed in older adults. The analysis looked at subjects given the 100-microgram dose being tested in the much larger Phase III trial. Moderna said the immune responses in those aged between ages 56 and 70, above age 70 and those 18 to 55-years-old were...