April 25, 2020 Fossil shows cold-blooded frogs lived on warm Antarctica A 40 million-year-old frog fossil has revealed that cold-blooded frogs once inhabited a warm Antarctica.
April 21, 2020 Ex-education secretaries say parents, teachers must support each other through coronavirus crisis Families, students, and teachers must work together to overcome the "calamitous" effect of the coronavirus pandemic on children's education, former Education Secretaries Bill Bennett and Arne Duncan said Tuesday.
April 18, 2020 Climate-driven 'megadrought' is emerging in Western US, study says The American West may be entering into a "megadrought" worse than any in the historical record, a new climate study from Columbia University suggested.
April 8, 2020 Evidence mounts 'severely ill' coronavirus patients could be helped by experimental plasma transfusion There is no known cure for the coronavirus pandemic upending every facet of life, but now a second study shows that plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients injected into those who are seriously ill can help.
April 5, 2020 Coronavirus 'Achilles' heel' may have been found, experts say The coronavirus pandemic has ravaged the majority of the world, upending nearly every facet of life, as researchers race to find a cure. However, a newly published study suggests researchers may have found what's been described as its "Achilles heel."
March 29, 2020 Blood of recovered coronavirus patients could be used to help 'critically ill patients,' study suggests With countries and companies racing to find a cure for the novel coronavirus, a recently published study suggests the blood of recovered patients can aid in the treatment of severe cases.
March 25, 2020 Coronavirus has 'stable genome,' study suggests, so vaccine could help 'over many years' Currently, there is no known specific medicine to treat the novel coronavirus, but researchers in Italy suggest that the COVID-19 disease is slow to mutate, based on its genetic material. This finding could aid in helping large swaths of people over an extended period of time once a specific cure is found.
March 18, 2020 Scientists at Oxford University have developed a rapid testing technology for coronavirus Scientists at Oxford University say that they have developed a technology that could significantly speed up testing for COVID-19.
March 11, 2020 Pi Day: How it’s celebrated across the nation Celebrate Pi Day (3.14), March 14, with a slice of pie.
March 11, 2020 Did German physicists accidentally discover dark matter in 2014? Could we have already discovered dark matter?