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Checking the news in 2020 is a bit like reading the first few pages of a horror movie script every morning. A virus raged halfway around the world at the tail-end of winter, mummies tombs are being popped open, and now the murder hornets have escaped. Washington-based researchers reported they have lost track of a […]
It appears the coronavirus is mutating in the U.S. Researchers became aware of this mutation when Houston saw an influx of cases in June, where a form of COVID-19 that was found in other parts of the world and was known to be particularly contagious began to dominate the city’s confirmed cases. A new study covered […]
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have isolated a biomolecule that they say neutralizes the virus that causes COVID-19 “completely and specifically.” According to the local CBS affiliate, KDKA, scientists at the college’s School of Medicine have isolated the “smallest biological molecule to date” that can neutralize the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The find was published in a report […]
The coronavirus pandemic is sadly far from over. Some experts are now reporting that more than 410,000 people are projected to die from the virus in the United States by 2021. This stat comes from the University of Washington’s health institute, which updated its projections on Friday. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation is estimating 410,451 […]
An asteroid is set to buzz by Earth but not kill everyone, according to NASA. As you may be aware this happens on occasion. The agency put out a tweet this past Friday stating that, on September 1, asteroid 2011 ES4 will miss Earth by 45,000 miles, which is close when you consider the universe is […]
There’s a lot more out there than this little mess of a planet. A new, breakthrough artificial intelligence technology has helped British researchers identify 50 new planets. According to CNN, astronomers and computer scientists from the University of Warwick accomplished the technological feat after building a machine learning algorithm to sift through old NASA data. The […]
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 […]
Scientists have just been approved to release 750 million genetically engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys in an effort to decrease the natural mosquito population in the region, Fast Company reports. Oxitec, the U.K.-based company that engineered the mosquitoes, will leave boxes of male mosquito eggs in various areas in the Keys beginning in 2021. The mosquitoes have […]
It’s been 50 years since scientists have seen a tiny, mouse-sized elephant shrew recently rediscovered in the Horn of Africa. The species is known as the Somali sengi and looks like a very small ant-eater with its trunk-like nose. It’s a talented little fella, who can race around at 20 mph despite its teeny size. […]
Well, time to pack it up y’all. In case you didn’t already feel like humanity was dangling on the brink of collapse, the bubonic plague has returned to California. Yes, that bubonic plague. According to CNN, a South Lake Tahoe resident was diagnosed with the plague, making it the first human case in the state […]
