Category: Science & Tech

Taking a fresh ​look at data involving a type of exploding stars, a team of researchers says it has confirmed the notion that the universe ‌is expanding at an accelerated rate – the very observation that led to the identification in the ​1990s of an enigmatic cosmic force called dark energy. The study’s results rebut...

The Cuban healthcare and biotechnology sectors — crown jewels of the country’s revolution — today find themselves at breaking point thanks to the U.S. campaign of economic strangulation, which has moved beyond trade restrictions to a direct assault on human services. Washington has also intensified pressure on the Global South to dismantle Cuban medical missions,...

The specific components of the immune response in a human body that protect against a dengue virus (DENV) infection and the subsequent illness remain unclear. Scientists are still trying to understand how natural infection and vaccination protect people so that they can develop better vaccines. Now, a novel study has revealed important insights into developing...

Of late, increasingly concentrated rainfall and violent floods have devastated India’s cities and farms alike. For years, scientists have debated whether this is simply natural variation or the direct result of climate change. A new study in Environmental Research Letters has found the smoking gun. Specifically, for the first time, researchers have dispositive evidence that...