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As the headlines focused on Bella Thorne‘s $2 million OnlyFans record continue to pile up, sex workers are speaking out about how Thorne’s approach has the potential to damage the platform and the industry at large by erasing the years of oft-ignored bravery and resilience endured by those who actually deserve the credit. One source of contention […]
As an alarming number of coronavirus patients continue to experience serious symptoms for months, researchers have documented the first case of reinfection. The New York Times reports that a patient with COVID-19 in Hong Kong has been diagnosed again just four months after they contracted it the first time. “An apparently young and healthy patient had a second case […]
After extensive testing, a team of scientists at the University of Toronto have confirmed that a new face mask can actually “deactivate” the virus SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19. You now have even more good reason to tell the anti-maskers on your Facebook feed to put a (antimicrobial) lid on it. The TrioMed Active mask, created by Quebec-based manufacturer i3 […]
According to a new study published on Monday in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a strain of flu that’s been found in pigs in China could have the ability to leap to humans and cause another pandemic. As such, researchers behind that study say the situation has to be closely monitored. […]
A new study shows that if the U.S. had enforced social distancing guidelines one week earlier in March, around 36,000 fewer people would have died from COVID-19. The research comes from Columbia University disease modelers who say if the country had started issuing lockdowns on March 1, two weeks before many stay-at-home orders had taken effect, […]
Two studies published in the journal Science on Wednesday suggest monkeys that recovered after becoming infected with COVID-19 appear to develop an immunity to the virus, Reuters reports. One study involved researchers at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) infecting nine monkeys with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and re-exposing them after they had recovered about one […]
A medical researcher who was reportedly close to making important findings on the coronavirus has been found shot dead in a home just outside of Pittsburgh. NBC News reports that 37-year-old Bing Liu, who worked at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, was found dead with a bullet wound in his head and neck. Just an hour […]
CureVac, a German biotech company that also has a branch in Boston, is working on a vaccine to COVID-19 and hopes to have it ready “perhaps before autumn.” Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, mentioned the company during an update on the coronavirus pandemic and provided the “autumn” projection for a vaccine. She […]
Scientists studying the genomes of West Africans reported this week that they had “detected signs” of an extinct human species that they’re calling a “ghost population.” The discovery was detailed in a study published this week in the Science Advances journal, per a Reuters report from Thursday. “We estimate interbreeding occurred approximately 43,000 years ago, with large intervals of […]
For the first time ever astronomers have located a fast radio burst (FRB) that regularly repeats itself. Don’t know what an FRB is? Well, we’ll try our best to explain it to you. Science Alert defines them as mysterious deep space signals that are unpredictable. CNN adds that they’re millisecond-long radio wave bursts from space. They can […]
