Several of the companies, including AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer, have published promising results from the first human trials of their candidate vaccines. Of the five companies represented in the hearing, all but Pfizer have received between hundreds of millions and more than one billion in funds from the United States …
Read More »Here’s why the United Arab Emirates launched a mission to Mars.
The UAE Hope probe is headed for Mars, marking the first planetary science mission led by an Arab country. A launch on July 19 from Japan marked the start of the journey of the Hope satellite to Mars. But the project (called Al-Amal in Arabic, which translates to Hope in …
Read More »Scientists are one step closer to slowing aging
A team of scientists studied aging in yeast, chosen because its cells are easily manipulated, to try to understand if different cells age at the same rate and for the same reason. What they found was intriguing. Even cells made from the same genetic materials and within the same environment …
Read More »Antibodies to the virus fade quickly but do not necessarily protect
New research suggests that the antibodies that the immune system makes to fight the new coronavirus may last only a few months in people with mild illnesses, but that doesn’t mean that protection has also disappeared or that it won’t be possible to develop an effective vaccine. “Infection with this …
Read More »Get to work: the $ 300 Kano PC, a Chromebook competitor “build yourself”
Enlarge / / This almost fully assembled shot of the Kano PC lacks only the back cover and magnetically connected folio case with keyboard and touchpad. Jim Salter Specifications at a glance: Kano PC YOU Windows 10 Home CPU Intel Celeron N4000 RAM 4GiB DDR3L (not upgradeable) GPU Intel UHD600 …
Read More »