Science

Antibodies derived from llamas have been shown to neutralise the SARS-CoV-2 virus in lab tests, UK researchers announced today. The team involves researchers from the Rosalind Franklin Institute, Oxford University, Diamond Light Source and Public Health England. They hope the antibodies – known as nanobodies due to their small size...

SpaceX is ready to deploy a military satellite for the Republic of South Korea. The Army/Navy/Air Force Satellite Information System, ANASIS-II, satellite will launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at the United States Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission is...

Cleveland Clinic researchers have found a significant increase in patients experiencing stress cardiomyopathy, also known as broken heart syndrome, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stress cardiomyopathy occurs in response to physical or emotional distress and causes dysfunction or failure in the heart muscle. Patients typically experience symptoms similar to a heart...

NASA is sending its Curiosity rover on a journey to a new area of Mount Sharp, the massive peak that sits in the center of the Gale Crater. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has started a road trip that will continue through the summer across roughly a mile (1.6 km) of...

A New Study of Dead Suns Finds How Life on Earth Might Not Exist Without Them. A new analysis of white dwarf stars supports their role as a key source of carbon, an element crucial to all life, in the Milky Way and other galaxies. Approximately 90 percent of all stars...

A team of astronomers in Japan has detected 12 stellar flares, including a so-called superflare, on AD Leonis, an M-dwarf star located just 16 light-years away in the constellation of Leo. “Stellar flares are sudden explosions that emanate from the surfaces of stars, including our own Sun,” said lead author...

Researchers have spotted a new class of radio objects in space that has never been documented before. Known as ‘Odd Radio Circles’ or ORC, it's believed they may be coming from a mysterious structure from another galaxy, unseen by human eyes. The waves take the form of blasts of colourful...

The origin of our teeth goes back more than 400 million years back in time, to the period when strange armoured fish first developed jaws and began to catch live prey. We are the descendants of these fish, as are all the other 60,000 living species of jawed vertebrates...

Grizzly bears are doing their best to get along with people, but it still isn’t enough. Newly published research concludes that without large wilderness areas to replenish their numbers, grizzlies would disappear from landscapes they share with humans. “The persistence of bears near people, when we see them along highways or...

Sientists have identified several existing compounds that block the replication of the Covid-19-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus within human cells grown in the laboratory, by targeting a key viral enzyme. University of South Florida Health (USF Health) Morsani College of Medicine scientists recently worked with colleagues at the University of Arizona (UA)...