The Scientist - Home

A new study in mice does not find evidence supporting two popular ideas for the mechanism for bridging the temporal time gap between two paired stimuli.

The public university system in California joins a number of colleges planning a virtual semester to minimize the risk of spreading COVID-19.

Data from a crowdsourcing smartphone app is helping to track the spread of the disease in real time and reveals the symptom as the number one indicator of infection.

The gene, aquaporin-4, is critical in rodents for the cerebrospinal fluid bath the brain gets during sleep. It’s now also tied to slow wave electrical activity during deep sleep in people.

A tooth and six bone fragments are the oldest confirmed Homo sapiens fossils in Europe.

The idea of deliberately infecting volunteers with SARS-CoV-2 has garnered significant attention as a potential avenue to speedier development, as the World Health Organization weighs in with recommendations.

Scientists document a growing list of atypical coronavirus infection symptoms, giving doctors more insight into the emerging disease.

Machine learning has pegged existing drugs to repurpose for COVID-19 clinical trials.

The use of yeast artificial chromosomes has enabled the rapid genetic reconstruction of the novel coronavirus.

Bluetooth-enabled technology will attempt to track people’s interactions on the British island—and potentially elsewhere in the UK—as lockdowns are lifted.

The FDA cracks down on test makers as independent evaluations of their products’ performance show a need for improvement.

A retrospective analysis of stored respiratory samples shows one patient could have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 weeks before the coronavirus was thought to have arrived in France, but a critic of the result questions whether the sample was contaminated.