A student at William G Davis Public School in Cambridge has tested positive for COVID-19.
Region of Waterloo Public Health confirmed the case Monday night. They say the student was last in the building November 5.
Public Health has identified all high-risk contacts and individual guidance has been provided to...
3D-printing can achieve some incredible things, but few would have anticipated a microscopic Star Trek Voyager would be created to research microswimmers.
Physicists from Leiden University have been working on several microscopic items to study microswimmers. The research team previously developed a 10-micrometre ‘Benchy the tugboat’, and they have...
Health officials in Sudbury have announced five new cases of COVID-19.
According to Public Health Sudbury & Districts, all five cases are in the Greater Sudbury area.
Out of the latest cases, four are said to have contracted the virus as a close contact while health officials are unable to confirm...
Since their discovery in 2007, astronomers have looked tirelessly to discover the sources of millisecond-duration 'fast radio bursts' that come from space. Currently, a class of neutron stars with powerful magnetic fields are the leading candidate for the origin of the blasts.
On April 28, astronomers detected a burst of...
Newly announced results of a Phase I dose-escalation study show CureVac’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, CVnCoV, generates noticeable immune responses in healthy volunteers.
CureVac formulated CVnCoV based on state-of-the-art lipid nanoparticle (LNP) technology which was licensed from the company’s long-term partner Acuitas Therapeutics. The vaccine candidate’s mode of action mimics the...
A new look at ancient Martian asteroids suggests that the Red Planet had liquid water hundreds of millions of years earlier than we knew.
Scientists have long known that the meteorites NWA 7034 and NWA 7533, which landed in the Sahara Desert years ago, came here from Mars. Probing into...
Archaeologists from the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration have discovered a 300-year-old slave quarters on a Jesuit plantation in St. Mary’s County.
The remains, which might date back to around 1700, were found buried in farm fields at Newtowne Neck State Park in Southern Maryland right by an...
On Oct. 29, mission operators sent a series of commands to NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft for the first time since mid-March. The spacecraft has been flying solo while the 70-meter-wide (230-foot-wide) radio antenna used to talk to it has been offline for repairs and upgrades. Voyager 2 returned a...
Singer Nikki McKibbin, who made it to the final three in the inaugural season of “American Idol”, has passed away at age 42.
McKibbin’s fellow “Idol” finalist Justin Guarini was the first to report the news, which he shared on Instagram.
“@realnikkimckibbin was a fiery, funny lady who could sing the...
