Stock futures opened higher on Tuesday night after Moderna’s recently released MRNA data fueled hopes that a vaccine to provide protection against Covid-19 would be developed in a relatively short time frame. Moderna’s vaccine produced neutralizing antibodies in the 45 patients included in an early-stage human safety trial, according to …

The Forbidden City in Beijing on November 9, 2017. Lintao Zhang / Getty Images From TikTok to the NBA, tensions between the United States and China are increasingly difficult to ignore. While the relationship hasn’t been exactly friendly for some time, the past two weeks seem like a tipping point, …

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admitted to a hospital in Baltimore on Tuesday “for treatment of a possible infection,” the court said in a statement. “He underwent an endoscopic procedure at Johns Hopkins this afternoon to clean a bile duct stent that was placed last August,” the statement …

North Carolina on Tuesday set the record for the highest number of people hospitalized in one day for coronavirus. The states Department of Health and Human Services 1,109 people hospitalized between noon Monday and around noon Tuesday. The number increased by 69 hospitalizations in the previous 24 hours. North Carolina …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Although the current reference human genome is the most accurate and complete vertebrate genome ever produced, there are still gaps in the DNA sequence, even after two decades of improvements. Now, for the first time, scientists have determined the complete sequence of a human chromosome from …