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The coronavirus has traveled the globe, infecting one person at a time. Some sick people might not spread the virus much further, but some people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 are what epidemiologists call "superspreaders."

Although bacteria are single-celled and microscopically small, they still need energy to survive, just like us. One of the most efficient ways of acquiring energy for bacteria is through sweet, soluble carbohydrates: sugars.

Crystals only one atom thick are commonly obtained by starting with layered materials, where thousands of individual atomic planes are stacked together by weak van der Waals interactions. Scientists have spent many decades ...

As we slowly emerge from lockdown, local adventures are high on people's wish lists. You may be planning a trip to the ski fields, or even the nearby hills to revel in the white stuff that occasionally falls around our southern ...

The COVID-19 outbreak has put into stark relief the disruption parasites can cause, both in human society and ecosystems.

Metabolic syndrome is a collection of conditions that happen together, increasing your risk of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes. These conditions include increased blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat ...

As daycare centers and pre-kindergartens begin to reopen around the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends masks be worn by teachers, care workers and children over two years of age.

Activation of dioxygen (O2) has attracted enormous attention due to its potential for utilization of methane and applications in other selective oxidation reactions. We (Edyta Tabor, Jiri Dedecek, Kinga Mlekodaj, Zdenek Sobalik, ...

Twenty years ago, Smith and colleagues described groundwater arsenic (As) contamination in Bangladesh as the "largest mass poisoning of a population in history." An estimated 60 million people were unknowingly drinking groundwater ...

In the late 1990s, cosmologists made a prediction about how much ordinary matter there should be in the universe. About 5%, they estimated, should be regular stuff with the rest a mixture of dark matter and dark energy. But ...

Over 300 million years ago, our ancestors diverged from the ancestors of reptiles and began the evolutionary journey towards becoming mammals.

As the basis of the electronics industry, silicon influences most people's daily lives. The powerful Si-based devices in homes are still fabricated by an optical method: lithography. Despite decades of developments and huge ...