The study, which examined patients infected early in the pandemic, found they were significantly more likely than people who didn’t get Covid to experience lingering reflux, constipation and other issues.
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What’s Inside Earth’s Inner Core? Seismic Waves Reveal an Innermost Core.
Shaking from large earthquakes provides hints about something different at the center of the planet.
When It Comes to Lightning, Don’t Pass the Salt
A study helps explain why thunderstorms occur much less frequently over the ocean than over land.
In Iceland, a Volcanic Eruption Brings Researchers Closer to Earth’s Core
A 2021 eruption in Iceland gave researchers rare and illuminating access to the mantle, one of the Earth’s layers.
Megalodon Extinction May Have Been Driven by Hungry Great White Sharks
The largest shark that ever lived may have vanished in part because the comparatively smaller great white had a taste for the same prey.
Most Active Hurricane Season Was Also Wetter Because of Climate Change
During the record-setting 2020 Atlantic storm season, the most extreme three-hour rainfall rates were 10 percent higher than they would have been without climate change, a new study found.
Ice Volcanoes Reshape Pluto and Hint at a Hidden Ocean
Signs of cryovolcanic activity on the dwarf planet in the recent geological past must be driven by an underground body of water, a study suggests.
Brain Implant Allows Fully Paralyzed Patient to Communicate
Letter by painstaking letter, a man in a completely locked-in state was able to formulate words and sentences using only his thoughts.
Human Migration Brought Maize to Maya Region, Study Finds
A new analysis of the DNA of the remains of ancient people in the jungles of Belize reveals that farming technology arrived from the south.
Fossil of Vampire Squid’s Oldest Ancestor Is Named for Biden
Scientists describe a new species of vampyropod from a 328-million-year-old, 10-armed fossil found in Montana.
In New York City Sewage, a Mysterious Coronavirus Signal
For the past year, scientists have been looking for the source of strange coronavirus sequences that have appeared in the city’s wastewater.
Astronomers Find a New Trojan Asteroid Sharing Earth’s Orbit
The Trojan asteroid 2020 XL5, which follows the same path around the sun as our planet, was revealed only after a decade of searching.
Alarming Levels of Mercury Are Found in Old Growth Amazon Forest
The findings, related to gold mining in Peru, provide new evidence of how people are altering ecosystems in dangerous ways around the world.
This Ink Is Alive and Made Entirely of Microbes
Scientists have created a bacterial ink that reproduces itself and can be 3D-printed into living architecture.
How the Cat Gets Its Stripes: It’s Genetics, Not a Folk Tale
Researchers took a deep dive into embryonic development to tease out the source of the tabby pattern in cats.
A Shifting Climate Gave Humans Many Opportunities to Leave Africa
A new paleoclimate model finds many favorable windows when Homo sapiens might have survived a migration out of Africa.
Life and Death on Stromboli Volcano, Lighthouse of the Mediterranean
Stromboli’s volcano is always active, always at the brink of devastating paroxysms. For those who visit the island as tourists or scientists, it is a spectacle like no other.
Could the Pandemic Prompt an ‘Epidemic of Loss’ of Women in the Sciences?
Even before the pandemic, many female scientists felt unsupported in their fields. Now, some are hitting a breaking point.
The Latest Wrinkle in Crumple Theory
From studies of “geometric frustration,” scientists learn how paper folds under pressure.
New Technique Unfolds Centuries of Secrets in Locked Letters
M.I.T. researchers have devised a virtual-reality technique that lets them read old letters that were mailed not in envelopes but in the writing paper itself after being folded into elaborate enclosures.
Lethal Chimp Disease Is Linked to Newly Identified Bacteria
Deaths at a Sierra Leone sanctuary that stumped people for 15 years have now been linked to a bacterium that seems to cause similar ailments in humans.
U.S. Cities Are Vastly Undercounting Emissions, Researchers Find
Inconsistent and flawed data is undercutting efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from American cities, according to a new study.
When These Sea Anemones Eat, It Goes Straight to Their Arms
They’re the first animals known to turn food into extra limbs.
These Microbes May Have Survived 100 Million Years Beneath the Seafloor
Rescued from their cold, cramped and nutrient-poor homes, the bacteria awoke in the lab and grew.
U.S. and Chinese Scientists Trace Evolution of Coronaviruses in Bats
Researchers whose canceled U.S. grant caused an outcry from other scientists urge preventive monitoring of viruses in southwestern China.