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Image copyright fake pictures Twitter has banned the oldest son of the President of the United States from tweeting for 12 hours. The action followed a Donald Trump Jr post containing a video clip discussing the benefits of hydroxychloroquine. Some, including President Trump, have suggested that the antimalarial drug works …

Over time, blood tests could be used earlier, allowing people who were starting to have mild memory problems to know if they would develop Alzheimer’s or if they had another condition that could be less aggressive or quicker, Dr. Weiner said. And, Dr. Tanzi said, blood tests could be performed …

Image copyright CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU Screenshot The tokamak building in Iter will house the structure where the merger will be controlled The world’s largest nuclear fusion project has entered its five-year assembly phase. Once this is complete, the facility will be able to start generating the superheated “plasma” required for the …

Some microbes below the seabed have hit us: they can survive with little sustenance for more than 100 million years. These microorganisms live more than 18,000 feet below the surface of the ocean, in an area so deep that it is called the subsoil, below the sea floor. These rare …

Enlarged image showing revived microbes from sediments 101.5 million years old.Image: JAMSTEC Scientists have revived microbes found deep in the seafloor in 100 million-year-old sediments, dramatically expanding our vision of where life exists on Earth and for how long. An international team of scientists led by geomicrobiologist Yuki Morono of …