A 5,000-year-old piece of wood has been found in Orkney in an ‘astonishing’ discovery.

Six universities are demanding students continue to wear masks on campus in September despite social distancing measures being removed.

Cholesterol is vitally important for brain function. While your brain represents about 2-3 percent of your total body weight, 25 percent of the cholesterol in your body is found in your brain.

It’s been almost eighteen months since the government has suspended our lives, freedoms, and rights under the pretense of slowing the spread of COVID-19.

There has been something rather ghoulish about environmental discourse throughout the pandemic. As lockdowns forced people to stay home, city skies cleared. Pollution went down, animals roamed urban streets, and social-media users cheered.

The EU has been shamed by campaigners, who claim the bloc is “sacrificing forests” after it published proposals that would allow trees to continue to be burned for fuel.

The swift fall of Afghanistan to Taliban fighters has triggered a humanitarian crisis, with thousands trying to flee the country. It’s also brought renewed focus on Afghanistan’s vast untapped mineral wealth, resources that could transform its economic prospects if ever developed.

Covid vaccine maker Moderna received 300,000 reports of side effects after vaccinations over a three-month period following the launch of its shot, according to an internal report from a company that helps Moderna manage the reports.

Physicists have created the first ever two-dimensional supersolid — a bizarre phase of matter that behaves like both a solid and a frictionless liquid at the same time.

Quantum engineers from UNSW Sydney have removed a major obstacle that has stood in the way of quantum computers becoming a reality. They discovered a new technique they say will be capable of controlling millions of spin qubits—the basic units of information in a silicon quantum processor.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit court ruled the Federal Communications Commission failed to provide a reasoned explanation for its determination that its current guidelines adequately protect against harmful effects of exposure to radiofrequency radiation.

Alkaloids is a term used collectively to describe a large and diverse group of chemicals that have alkali-like properties and at least one nitrogen atom in a heterocyclic ring structure.

In Italy, like in many nations the Covid-19 experimental serums were put into use under extraordinary authorization.  That authorization has just expired, making the Vaxx passport a dead letter.

Olympic 400m hurdles champion Karsten Warholm says carbon-technology shoes are “hurting athletes’ credibility”.The 25-year-old Norwegian shaved seven tenths of a second off his own world record at the Tokyo Games.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Wednesday that data sourced from Israel on COVID-19 vaccines shows that the efficacy of the shots has dropped among individuals who received their vaccines early on.