For years, scientists have sought to understand the mystery behind supercentenarians, or people who live more than 110 years. Now, researchers have overcome the first obstacle in cracking the secret code of long, healthy life. For some as yet unknown reason, supercentenarians are resistant to diseases such as Alzheimer’s, heart disease and cancer. In an effort to emulate this apparent medical miracle, scientists successfully reprogrammed cells […]
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The biggest public health crisis of our time just continues to get worse. The global death toll is rapidly approaching 20,000, and approximately a third of the world is currently under some sort of a lockdown order. Needless to say, this is going to be absolutely devastating for the entire global economy. Here in the United States, the spread of this virus continues to track along a trajectory […]
It’s the “one drug right now that we think may have real efficacy” against COVID-19, according to World Health Organization officials. Two patients “near death” who recently took an experimental dose made remarkable recoveries. But it’s not the overhyped antimalaria drug being pushed by President Trump. Remdesivir started out with similar hopes as a tool many thought could be effective against Ebola, the virus which caused […]
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Pete Gaynor told CNN that coronavirus social distancing “is working” and that he would “leave it to the scientists” whether such measures should be relaxed by the end of the month as President Donald Trump has proposed. Gaynor was interviewed on Tuesday morning’s edition of CNN’s New Day, and anchor John Berman asked about the social distancing measures that Trump […]
A pair of American and German astrobiologists has found oil on Mars. And where there’s oil, there’s usually life. Technically speaking, Dirk Schulze‑Makuch and Jacob Heinz didn’t find oil. Rather, they found organic compounds called “thiophenes” that are also present in crude oil, coal, and truffles. Thiophene molecules include four carbon atoms and a sulfur atom in a ring-like shape. There are lots of ways thiophenes […]
World 01:36 GMT 15.03.2020(updated 01:39 GMT 15.03.2020) Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107857/04/1078570411_0:17:3072:1744_1200x675_80_0_0_6d5d60f11dcfceab20f0cea0a90ba909.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202003151078570126-trump-attempts-to-poach-german-scientists-developing-coronavirus-vaccine–report/ The news comes as the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads to over 130 countries and territories, currently infecting more than 156,000 people and with over 5,800 dead worldwide, prompting the World Health Organization to declare it a global pandemic. US President Donald Trump is said to be trying to track […]
According to one theory of how our moon formed, roughly 4.5 billion years ago a Mars-sized object collided with a newly-formed Earth. However, we could never confirm its existence. Until now… In what is known as the giant-impact hypothesis, a planetoid of some description from elsewhere in the solar system is believed to have fused with the Earth, potentially helping to create the conditions to support […]
Tech 01:07 GMT 10.03.2020Get short URL The Moscow Radiotechnical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences has registered a patent for a system of transmitting energy from an orbiting solar power plant down to the surface of the Earth, according to data on the website of Russia’s Federal intellectual property service. According to the document, Russian scientists have suggested deploying a solar power plant at an […]
As researchers, doctors and epidemiologists spend more time studying the coronavirus under a microscope, as well as in the 100k+ infections that have yielded reams of useful data, a troubling trend has emerged: researchers have identified a “tipping point” at which the virus goes from dangerous to deadly in extremely susceptible patients. According to research, while many patients experience nothing more than a mild cold, one […]
Authored by Lance Welton via VDare.com, Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Machiavellian senior civil servant in the hit 1980s British sitcom Yes, Minister once famously commented that one should “never believe anything until it’s been officially denied.” Which meant we could be fairly confident that racial and ethnic differences in susceptibility to Coronavirus exist, because our race-denying Ruling Class so dogmatical refused to consider the evidence. Now that’s over: a study […]
Chinese scientists studying the new coronavirus have found two new primary strains of the disease – one of which appears to be far more aggressive. The researchers, from Peking University’s School of Life Sciences, discovered a milder “S-type” strain, and an “L-type” which is highly infectious and currently accounts for around 70% of cases, according to The Telegraph. The researchers cautioned that their preliminary findings looked […]
Tech 23:06 GMT 04.03.2020Get short URL A patient with rare genetic disorder has become the first blind person to have CRISPR technology used inside their body following an innovative gene-editing procedure that scientists hope will restore their vision. CRISPR, or clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, technology is a procedure which taps into the endogenous immune defense system in bacteria and allows for researchers to conduct […]
Scientists have used the controversial CRISPR gene-editing technique on DNA on live tissue inside a person’s body for the first time, in a landmark procedure that could dramatically change the field of medicine. The world-first procedure involved injecting the gene-editing tool into the patient’s eye, in the hopes of restoring their sight lost to a rare genetic disorder. Preliminary results are expected within weeks, while a […]
The universe has more mass than we can account for. A lot more. One of the greatest mysteries that has eluded scientists for decades is where all this mass comes from. One brand new theory suggests we may have cracked the case. We can only tell all this mass (which makes up the majority of the universe) is there by observing its gravitational effects on objects […]
Yesterday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the CDC’s infectious disease unit, affirmed that even though Gilead and Moderna might be ready, or almost ready, for Phase 1 trials, the US likely won’t have a workable vaccine for another year to 18 months. And on Thursday, a team of Israeli scientists one-upped the US, boasting that they could have a vaccine ready “in a few weeks.” […]
Peter Andrews is an Irish science journalist and writer, based in London. He has a background in the life sciences, and graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in Genetics Chinese scientists have reported that the coronavirus ripping through populations worldwide is much more likely than its close cousin Sars to bind to human cells, as it contains unexpected genes which link it to HIV […]
Tech 13:21 GMT 27.02.2020Get short URL Although they occupy less than one percent of underwater surfaces, coral reefs are an invaluable part of marine ecosystems. They are even called the rainforests of the sea as they provide home and food to millions of species. Between 70 to 90 percent of all coral reefs will disappear in 20 years and by the end of the century they […]
While mainstream scientists continue to perform mental gymnastics to insist that the new coronavirus wasn’t man-made, new research from scientists in China and Europe reveal that the disease happens to have an ‘HIV-like mutation’ which allows it to bind with human cells up to 1,000 times stronger than the Sars virus, according to SCMP. Recall that at the end of January, a team of Indian scientists […]
Researchers at the University of Washington have announced early findings on a potentially revolutionary new type of ‘rotating detonation engine’ which could help produce cheaper, lighter spacecraft. There’s just one small catch. While the research is only in its infancy, the fuel-efficient rocket would, theoretically at least, be easier and cheaper to build than current space-faring rockets, paving the way for more space travel at a […]
Meteorologists have long-struggled to predict when and where tornadoes will strike, but now scientists testing specialized microphones used to detect illegal nuclear weapons tests believe they may have a way to track the twisters. Tornadoes can be a scourge, wreaking havoc and misery on populations with little to no prior warning because of how incredibly difficult they are to predict and track with any high degree […]
Now that the coronavirus pandemic has started to spread across the globe at an alarming speed and is accelerating every day, with infected clusters emerging in South Korea, Japan, Italy and Iran… … and with more people dying from covid-19 outside of China, questions are again swirling what the real source of the pandemic was, and this time – with countless lives at stake – China […]
The climate change movement has long warned that, as global temperatures rise, we run the risk of releasing vast reserves of trapped methane into the atmosphere and bringing about the end of days. New research says: probably not. Researchers at the University of Rochester in New York studied methane emissions from a period in Earth’s history which bears many similarities to our current climate, examining ice […]
A new study purports to solve one of the ongoing mysteries in astrophysics, about whether supernovae shoot debris out at a fraction of the speed of light, and if these cosmic ‘bullets’ hit us at those speeds. Earth is bombarded daily by small meteors measuring between 1mm and 10cm wide, most of which hit the atmosphere at speeds faster than 17km per second. However, Harvard University […]
Researchers who sifted through human saliva, animal feces, and various water sources have found hundreds of giant viruses with unique abilities we’ve never seen before, blurring the definition of what it means to be alive. The international team, led by scientists from University of California, Berkeley discovered this new class of giant phages (viruses that infect bacteria) that can have almost four times the number of […]