For The Better

COVID vaccines are five times more effective at preventing COVID-related hospitalization than prior infection alone, according to new research. The study was conducted by CDC’s VISION Network which gathered data from more than 201,000 hospitalizations …

For the first time, researchers have used human data to quantify the speed of different processes that lead to Alzheimer’s disease and found that it develops in a very different way than previously thought. Their results could have important implicatio…

Many Dutch ships passed the West Australian coast while enroute to Southeast Asia in the 1600s — and the national heritage listed shipwreck, Batavia, has revealed through its timbers the history of the shipbuilding materials that enabled Dutch East In…

Honeybees increase social distancing when their hive is under threat from a parasite, finds a new study.

Unlike meerkats that take individual turns watching for predators while the rest forage, Barbary ground squirrels found off the coast of Africa stand sentry together — a behavior called synchronous vigilance, according to a new study.