SCIENCE

Prescription drugmaker Moderna has received $1.1 billion in customer deposits for its COVID-19 vaccine, expected to be available next year

The vaccine, now in late-stage human trials aimed at showing its efficacy and safety, is a front-runner in the global sprint for a shot to protect lives and jump-start economies hobbled by the pandemic.

The company says it directly refers to politicians "from any party who deny or disregard the climate crisis and ignore science, not because they aren’t aware of it, but because their pockets are lined with money from oil and gas interests."

Gilead Sciences Inc will acquire biopharmaceutical company Immunomedics Inc for $21 billion in a deal that would further expand Gilead's portfolio of cancer treatments, the companies said on Sunday in a statement.

Speaking at a Thursday campaign event in battleground Pennsylvania, President Trump told the crowd of onlookers that he is "truly an environmentalist" before tearing into bans on single-use plastic products.

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk showcased pigs with computer brain chips at an event updating the world on his neuroscience technology program Neuralink.

The White House on Wednesday announced more than $1 billion in new funding for AI and quantum research.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is leading an initiative to launch a federally funded tech college to train future civil servants.

BioNTech has partnered with Pfizer to develop a coronavirus vaccine that may be ready by the end of 2020.

Researchers and health officials say they can track the course of a community outbreak of the new coronavirus by studying the waste flushed from its bathrooms.

Experts say the expected "second wave" of coronavirus cases in the U.S. hasn't happened yet.

For every two outdated batteries coming out, a new and improved one goes in to supply power to the space station on the night side of Earth.

Besides the respiratory issues that leave patients gasping for breath, the virus that causes COVID-19 attacks many organ systems, in some cases causing catastrophic damage.

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy on Friday lost a small mirror that floated away at a foot per second.

Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku analyzes a report revealing there may be 36 intelligent alien races sharing our galaxy.

Scientists genetically engineered the cattle to produce human antibodies that can fight COVID-19.

The data was gathered in a preliminary study of more than 750,000 participants

President Trump will be present at SpaceX's historic launch set for Wednesday.

Researchers from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology devised an electrochemical eye that converts images through tiny sensors that mirror light-detecting photoreceptor cells.

Trump described the administration's plan as "a massive scientific industrial and logistical endeavor unlike anything our country has seen since the Manhattan Project."