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Researchers are working on a vaccine that could potentially offer protection against coronaviruses beyond the one that is causing the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Democratic presidents are "more willing to heed historical lessons," but Republicans cling to "magical" tax cuts and deregulation theories during economic downturns, states a new economic analysis.

"The brain is one of the regions where virus likes to hide," researcher Mukesh Kumar said. "Once it infects the brain it can affect anything because the brain is controlling your lungs, the heart, everything."

China's president has ordered that all coronavirus research must be approved by a task force before publication, according to internal documents.

MRI scans showed tissue abnormalities in the lungs of 60 percent of patients, in the kidneys of 29 percent, in the hearts of 26 percent and in the livers of 10 percent.

"We encourage Americans to enroll in the vaccine trial," President Donald Trump said during a Thursday press conference.

Among the group studied by Dutch researchers, 67 percent of workers at mink farms developed the coronavirus.

Newsweek has partnered with Statista Inc., the global market research and consumer data firm, to develop the ranking of the world's best hospitals for the third year.

An experiment involving hundreds of cows in Botswana demonstrates how a little paint may provide an effective way to deter lions and leopards.

"Once misinformation has taken hold, it is notoriously hard to correct," said Jeanine Guidry, who led a piece of research into how vaccine lies were previously spreading on Pinterest.

Researchers point to a phenomenon called T-cell memory, which may allow white blood cells to attack variations of viruses they have encountered before.

"We shouldn't be surprised these attacks are happening. What would be surprising is if they stopped," cybersecurity expert Stefan Tanase told Newsweek.

New research suggests that narcissists may be unable to improve poor decision making because they already believe themselves to be perfect decision makers.

"It can glide, hover, and do some amazing aerobatics. It can save energy by flying in a large circle like a regular airplane, but can choose to hover when it needs to," one researcher told Newsweek.

Two new studies find links between Dark Triad personality traits and noncompliance with coronavirus restrictions, although the correlations are minor compared to factors other than personality.

Psychologists at Queen's University in Canada say they have developed a new way to detect when one thought ends and another begins.

The private sector will need to learn how to respond to the current geopolitical climate.

New research from the Boston University School of Law shows that banning employers from asking about past wages can partially close gender and racial wage gaps.

A European research consortium announced Thursday that a supercomputers had identified an existing osteoporosis drug has the potential to be a "promising" treatment for COVID-19.

"This research is flawed in a number of ways and shows a misunderstanding of how Instagram works," the Facebook-owned picture application said.

"Never have super-resolution images been created at this resolution before with this much detail," said Duke University computer scientist and team leader Cynthia Rudin.

National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien said China is likely using espionage to try and steal U.S. coronavirus vaccine research, but he declared American scientists would develop it first.

It is not a coincidence that Neanderthals vanished just at the time, when Homo sapiens started to spread into Europe" said research lead Axel Timmermann, director of IBS Center for Climate Physics.

The team at the University of Kentucky is hoping to create a membrane mask that would "capture and deactivate" SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

"Anti-vaccination has pulled in the huge population of people who ordinarily don't talk a lot online about such issues," study author Neil Johnson told Newsweek.

The department noted the researchers from Arizona State University and the University of Arizona may possibly be called upon to work again in late summer or early fall ahead of the flu season.

For the first time, the component has been proven to carry signals between neurons using very low power—which has been a major challenge in previous studies, the research team said.

"Our results suggest that speaking can indeed be a major mode of SARS-CoV-2 transmission," researchers from the National Institutes of Health wrote Monday.

New research from experts at the California Institute of Technology suggests atoms in small boxes of light — optical cavities — could soon "form the backbone technology" of a futuristic internet.

Social distancing measures in states with Republican governors and more Trump voters were delayed by 2.7 days, according to University of Washington research.