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Western researchers have discovered a mysterious exoplanet less than twice the size of Earth orbiting around a distant Sun-like star that could support life, making it the closest analog to the Earth-Sun system. The discovery of the exoplanet KOI-456.04 orbiting the star Kepler-160 -- was made by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany…

Ever since scientists reportedly explored the deterrent effects of nicotine in preventing the coronavirus, potheads probably figured it was only a matter of time until somebody did the same for marijuana. Now, a team of researchers in Calgary told a local TV station that their research into local strains of marijuana shows "promise." The husband-and-wife…

As researchers, doctors and epidemiologists spend more time studying the coronavirus under a microscope, as well as in the 100k+ infections that have yielded reams of useful data, a troubling trend has emerged: researchers have identified a "tipping point" at which the virus goes from dangerous to deadly in extremely susceptible patients. According to research,…

Now that the coronavirus pandemic has started to spread across the globe at an alarming speed and is accelerating every day, with infected clusters emerging in South Korea, Japan, Italy and Iran... ... and with more people dying from covid-19 outside of China, questions are again swirling what the real source of the pandemic was,…

February 18, 2020 4:49 PM ET Scientist have programed locusts to sniff out the various different chemicals typically used by terrorist groups for bomb-making – as well as military explosives TNT and RDX. Research from scientists, who received funding by the US Navy, revealed in a paper published in BioRxiv, that the insects were able…