Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Aerojet Rocketdyne’s operation in Redmond, Wash., are among 17 companies that have struck deals with NASA to develop new technologies for space missions. The 20 collaborative projects are part of a program managed by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. The selected projects will be governed by unfunded Space Act Agreements. No...
An experimental COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SA appears to be more than 90% effective, based on data analyzed midway through a gold-standard clinical trial, the companies announced on Monday. Pfizer said researchers had analyzed 94 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in trial participants and found the vast majority of the infections were in volunteers in the placebo group. BioNTech's...
When families of banded mongooses prepare to fight, they form battle lines. “Then they bunch up into writhing balls, chaotic and fast-moving, and you hear high-pitched screeches,” said Michael Cant, a biologist at the University of Exeter who has been studying the species in Uganda for 25 years. “We call it mongoose...
Pfizer said in a press release that its experimental vaccine is 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, a step toward slowing the spread of the...
Scientists on Monday said initial trial results for Pfizer Inc and BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine far outpaced their expectations for protection against a completely new disease, but that many questions remain unanswered. The drugmakers said their vaccine was more than 90 percent effective at preventing COVID-19, based on data from the first 94 people in the trial to become infected with the...
Jupiter bombards Europa's surface with radiation. The resulting "mosaic" of glowing ice could hint at the potential for life in the ocean...
On Monday, Pfizer announced its experimental coronavirus vaccine was found to be more than 90% effective in its final stage of clinical...
The coronavirus mutation found in farmed mink in Denmark has arisen in the past, genetic data...
The government is committed to building nuclear power stations to decarbonise the UK's...
At least 56,768 people are currently hospitalized with complications from COVID-19, an increase of 10,000 since October...