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The problem is that while the vaccine prompts production of antibodies against the flu virus, those antibodies tend to target a viral protein segment that is especially prone to mutation.If the antib

The signature of these heat-loving bacteria in the sediments suggests that similar springs existed near those sites when early humans lived there.“As far as we can tell, this is the first time rese

Ghez, a professor at UCLA, and Reinhard Genzel, a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, share half the prize for the discovery of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.“What Andrea G

Given commonly used statistical distributions in which the typical patient infects three others, events in which the disease spreads to dozens of people would be considered very unlikely.A normal dist

As the United States strives to respond to complex crises from covid-19 to climate change, I believe that the perspective of our community—analytical, hands-on, grounded in facts and science, attun

What these factors do not take into account is exposure to patients with covid-19, say residents.That means the algorithm did not distinguish between those who had caught covid from patients versus th

MIT’s famous Media Lab, the multidisciplinary idea factory that produces many a fascinating invention and influential thinker, has found a new director in its backyard after scouring the globe for c

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As covid-19 began spreading around the world, an avalanche of new digital services and data-driven approaches has emerged to aid pandemic response.From smartphone exposure notifications to vaccine all

Researchers at MIT have developed a new method for growing plant tissues in a lab – sort of like how companies and researchers are approaching lab-grown meat.This work is still in its very early sta