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The crew are scheduled for lift-off shortly after midnight on Sunday.

We ask Mahesh Anand, Professor of Planetary Science and Exploration at the Open University, UK, about NASA’s exciting discovery.

Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.

Conservation scientist Kimberley Hockings was worried. In 2017, photos from camera traps in Guinea-Bissau’s Cantanhez National Park, where she works, revealed several chimpanzees with terrible lesions on their faces. Hockings emailed wildlife veterinarian Fabian Leendertz. “I have NEVER seen this in chimps,” Leendertz, who works at the Robert Koch Institute […]

Seven years ago, an understanding of nature inspired a revolutionary new technology, when researchers turned a defense system used by bacteria to thwart viruses into the gene-editing tool now known as CRISPR. But for another emerging gene editor the understanding has lagged the applications. For several years, researchers have been […]

Science‘s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.

The agency updated its guidelines to say that cloth masks provide “filtration for personal protection.”

The squid’s tentacles are taller than an average human, but its body is small as a dollar bill.

The announcement comes a day after Pfizer/BioNTech reported 90 per cent efficacy for their vaccine candidate.