As the world faces the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study suggests that antibodies, proteins produced by the immune system that can provide protection against reinfection, may disappear in just two months after infection in certain people who have recovered from the virus. The study was conducted in China and published …
Read More »300-million-year-old fish looks like a sturgeon, but took a different evolutionary path – HeritageDaily
The sturgeon, a long-lived bottom fish, is often described as “living fossils” because its shape has remained relatively constant, despite hundreds of millions of years of evolution. In a new study in the Linnean Society Zoological Magazine, researchers led by Jack Stack, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in …
Read More »Philippines launches investigation into Wirecard’s billions of ghosts
MUNICH / MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines is investigating Wirecard’s $ 2.1 billion accounting scandal, which said former chief operating officer of German payments firm Jan Marsalek could be in the country. FILE PHOTO: Markus Braun, CEO of Wirecard AG, an independent provider of white label outsourcing solutions for electronic …
Read More »Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by 14 points in NYT / Siena College poll
The poll, released Wednesday, shows the former vice president ahead of Trump by 14 points, a margin reflecting the CNN poll earlier this month that found Trump behind Biden by 14 points. Fifty percent of voters registered in the New York Times poll said that if the 2020 elections were …
Read More »Space expert says 110 people are ‘minimum number’ to start life on Mars
If you’ve ever wondered how many people it will take to start a new civilization on Mars, you have your answer. At least 110. Space expert Jean-Marc Salotti estimates that it will take at least that many people to start a new civilization on the Red Planet, according to a …
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