Enlarge / A reconstruction of the cosmic web— a vast network of filamentary structures of matter spanning the universe—modeled on the growth patterns of slime mold. (credit: Joseph N. Burchett et al./AJL) There’s rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we’re once again running a special […]
Enlarge / UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson poses for a photograph with a vial of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University COVID-19 candidate vaccine. (credit: WPA Pool/Getty Images) This week, the UK released more data on the newly evolved strain of SARS-CoV-2, providing further evidence that it spreads more readily than previously circulating strains of the virus. Despite […]
Enlarge / Oxford University is associated with the hospital that ran this study, as well as a vaccine that is currently undergoing clinical trials. (credit: Gallo Images) The two authorizations issued by the FDA for COVID-19 vaccines come because of clear data that they limit infections by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and ensure that any ensuing […]
Enlarge / Ophelia (1852) by John Everett Millais, inspired by the character in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, who goes mad and drowns in a brook. It can be challenging for forensic scientists to determine how long a dead body has been submerged in water. There’s rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our […]
Expand / Sampling germs out of Leonardo da Vinci’s Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk (1512). (charge: Guadalupe Piñar et al..) Microbiomes are {} scientific anger, in art conservation, even in which studying the parasitic species that contrasts on works of art can bring about new tactics to slow the deterioration of aging that […]
Expand (charge: Eric Sonstroem / Flickr) Did anybody have”mink farms” in their 2020 disaster bingo cards? It ends up the SARS-CoV-2 virus easily spreads into mink, resulting in outbreaks on mink farms at Europe along with that the United States. Denmark reacted by culling its whole mink people, which obviously went wrong because mink bodies […]
Expand (charge: CDC.gov) A version of this pandemic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, is currently dominating headlines and inspirational precautionary travel bans global. But scientists are still attempting to have a grasp on just what the version can really do otherwise and what it may mean for its almost year old pandemic. Researchers at the United Kingdom–in which […]
Expand / / scientists have looked at if there are genetic effects on who encounters a event of acute COVID-19. (charge: ALBERTO PIZZOLI / / Getty Images) The human body’s reaction to SARS-CoV-2 disease are imperceptible to departure, increasing a clear question: Why is the difference? If we can determine the aspects which make COVID-19 […]
Even the FDA’s capacity to problem Emergency Use Authorizations is not confined to therapies; the government may also hand out them to clinical equipment and evaluations. And now, it accepted the very first old fashioned, at-home SARS-CoV-2 test kit. The kit detects the existence of a protein present in the surface of the virus also […]
Expand / Two eyes along with their optic nerves, also found to a radial area scan. (charge: BSIP/Getty Pictures ) Our visual system is more complicated, using photoreceptors that select incoming lighting and at least three different kinds of neurons between the mind. When in the brain, visual input signal is translated by numerous dedicated […]