Ben Guarino

Regulators would have to authorize Johnson & Johnson booster shots before the public could receive them.

The Food and Drug Administration action marks the first licensing of a vaccine for the coronavirus, which that has swept the United States in repeated waves since early 2020.

As the delta variant spreads, people who had the Johnson & Johnson vaccine may be seeking a dose of an mRNA vaccine. Here’s what experts told The Washington Post about combining those vaccines.

New research confirms what scientists had theorized for years — the moon is wet.

Critical components of the immune system’s early defense, called interferons, are missing in bad coronavirus cases.

These vaccine trials would be unlike any others: Researchers would inject healthy volunteers with an experimental vaccine and then expose them to the coronavirus.

The huge amount of unreliable news about the coronavirus threatens public health.

As the virus infects multiple families in New York, Jewish schools and synagogues shut down.

“One of the things we’ve kind of taken for granted is that fireflies will always be here,” one firefly researcher said. “And we’ve been terribly wrong about that.”

The mummy, an Egyptian priest named Nesyamun, would have been pleased to hear his voice in the afterlife, the researchers said.

The oldest-known sea wall, built an estimated 7,000 years ago, could not stop the Mediterranean.

Mucus isn’t just a physical barrier to microbes — its potent biochemistry helps stop bacteria, too.

Practical advice about how to spot and call out BS

Almost a year after unveiling a plan to move USDA science divisions, the agriculture secretary has selected a relocation site.

Prehistoric fish swallowed glass spheres that rained on Earth almost immediately after the asteroid impact.

Archaeologists have uncovered 61,480 structures in Guatemala -- a number the lead author in the study called “humbling.”

The relationship between Neanderthals and fire is “kind of a hot topic,” archaeologists say