Ben Guarino
Hope for long-haulers? Vaccines quell symptoms in some patients
Some people who have spent months suffering from long-haul covid-19 are taking to social media to report their delight at ...
Nearly 60% of COVID-19 cases spread by asymptomatic carriers, CDC finds
Regardless of whether you feel ill, wear a mask, wash your hands, stay socially distant and get a coronavirus test ...
Why COVID kills more men than women
For every 10 women claimed by [COVID] in the United States, 12 men have died, found an analysis by Global Health 50/50, ...
There is water on the moon!
[New] research confirms long-standing theories about the existence of lunar water that could someday enable astronauts to live there for extended periods ...
CDC guidance in turmoil over conflicting evidence whether COVID can be transmitted through the air over longer distances
[On Monday, September 21,] the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention edited its Web page describing how the novel coronavirus spreads, ...
COVID-19 evolving to be less deadly? Experts challenge Italian doctor’s claims
Has the novel coronavirus in Italy changed in some significant way? That was the suggestion of a top doctor in ...
Bringing ‘medical lore’ to life: Century-old practice of plasma infusions could be used against coronavirus
An old idea for fighting infections — an approach most physicians know about only from medical lore — is being ...
USDA Kansas City relocation halts research on honeybees, organic food and Bayer’s dicamba herbicide
The relocation of two Agriculture Department agencies out of the District of Columbia has delayed the publication of dozens of ...
Is personality influenced by birth order? New studies challenge ‘conventional wisdom’
Birth order, according to conventional wisdom, molds personality: Firstborn children, secure with their place in the family and expected to ...
Are some people just ‘jerks’? New study identifies four major personality types
Personality type tests are hugely popular, though if you ask working psychologists, they’ll tell you the results are little better ...
Turning white blood cells into ‘living cancer drugs’ with electric shocks
A promising new class of cancer treatments recruits the cells in our blood to fight tumors, using powerful gene-editing tools ...
Challenging the claim that a sex robot is the ‘perfect companion’
Sex doll maker Realbotix, in its marketing materials, bills [sex doll] Harmony as “the perfect companion.” But healthy companionship is too ...
Humans mated with the mysterious Denisovans more than once, as well as with Neanderthals
We rarely portray Neanderthals, our close relatives, as telegenic...But to mock Neanderthals is to mock ourselves: Homo sapiens had lots of sex with Homo neanderthalensis. Neanderthal genes supply ...
Saturn’s frigid moon Enceladus boasts ‘chemical buffet’ needed for life
Life as we know it needs three things: energy, water and chemistry. Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has them all, as ...
Asteroid that killed dinosaurs had only 1-in-10 chance of causing extinction
The smack of the asteroid against Earth released energy on the order of billions of atomic bombs. Dinosaurs were the cataclysm's most famous ...
First bioengineered ‘mutant ants’ could open research doors
Despite what you might've seen in 1950s monster movies, it's difficult to raise mutant ants. For years biologists have altered the ...
Neonicotinoid insecticides in trace level parts per trillion detected in drinking water in Iowa
[A] team of chemists and engineers at the [U.S. Geological Survey] and University of Iowa reported that they found neonicotinoids ...
