Researchers develop a system to identify drugs that might be repurposed to fight the coronavirus
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, doctors and researchers rushed to find effective treatments. There was little time to spare. "Making new drugs takes forever," says Caroline Uhler, a computational biologist at the …
Water treatment has the potential to remove nearly all viruses from drinking water
Among the many avenues that viruses, such as the novel coronavirus, can use to infect humans, drinking water may pose only a tiny risk. However, in cases where there is unauthorized wastewater disposal or inadvertent mixing of wastewater with treated water sources, the …
Discovery of new lineage, insights into when and how fast mammoths adapted to cold climate
An international research team has sequenced DNA recovered from mammoth remains that are up to 1.2 million years old. The results are published in the …
Extensive sea ice covered the world's oceans during the last ice age, preventing oxygen from penetrating into deep ocean waters and complicating the relationship between oxygen and carbon, a new study has found.
"Sea ice is effectively a closed window for the ocean," …
