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An emergency use authorization has been issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the first COVID-19 test that uses breath samples to detect infection. The authorization came Thursday, per a report from the Associated Press, and is of particular interest at the phase in the pandemic due to its reported swiftness at […]
Five years ago, paleontologist Amelia Penny struck gold in Scotland’s Isle of Skye when she noticed a fossilized jaw amongst the terrain during a field study 2017. Now, the near-complete fossil reveals a 170 million-year-old prehistoric flying reptile that is “the largest of its kind ever discovered from the Jurassic period,” according to the National Museum of Scotland. As […]
After selling 600 first round tickets at $200,000 to $250,000 a seat for a flight to suborbital space, Virgin Galactic has reopened their lucrative extraterrestrial tourism trip to customers. According to CNN, tickets will now cost $450,000 for the 90-minute trip. The company announced that tickets will be going back on sale on Feb. 16 and […]
A woman has been cured of HIV using a new transplant method, marking the third person to be cured, according to the New York Times. The method involves umbilical cord blood, which is more widely available than adult stem cells and doesn’t need to be matched as closely to the recipient. Researchers spoke about the method at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic […]
NASA announced in a press release that once the International Space Station concludes its three decades of service at the end of 2030, it will head off to greener pastures by crashing into an area known as Point Nemo in the Pacific Ocean. The Biden Administration committed late last year to extend ISS operations through 2030 before […]
As the United States continues to grapple with COVID-19, health officials around the world are keeping their eyes on BA. 2—an omicron subvariant that has been found in several countries across the world. The World Health Organization announced this week that it continues to investigate the mutations of BA. 2, which is widely known as the “son of omicron.” […]
Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation has pledged to donate $15 million to organizations that are fighting for climate justice in the United States and the Caribbean. The pledge was made in partnership with Jack Dorsey’s #StartSmall initiative. The groups that will be receiving grants “are focused on and led by women, youth, Black, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+ and people of color […]
Scientists at the University of California, Riverside recently discovered a rare species of worm that kills tarantulas, and naturally, named it after actor Jeff Daniels, Variety reports. The inspiration behind the “Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi” is Daniels’ character Dr. Ross Jennings in the 1990 film Arachnophobia about a town overrun by a new species of spiders. Even […]
A woman whose tongue was partially replaced by a piece of her thigh due to cancer is opening up about her journey, including via a number of increasingly popular TikTok clips. 42-year-old Cameron Weeks Newsom—as mentioned in a Newsflare-citing report from the New York Post this week—suffered from severe pain following a 2013 diagnosis of squamous […]
Fans of fish oil supplements might want to take a further look at what they’re consuming. A report from Labdoor—an independent testing company—has found that a large amount of such supplements sold on the market can be heavy in oxidized oils, which makes them rancid in both taste, smell, and leaves them in poor quality. As reported by […]
