A new coronavirus mutation has become the most dominant strain of the virus and is causing outbreaks to spread more quickly worldwide, an expert said. Professor Nick Loman of the University of Birmingham, part of the COVID-19 Genomics Consortium, told BBC Radio 4’s “Today” program that the mutation, known as …
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Coronavirus patients can develop lesions similar to rashes inside the mouth, a small Spanish study recently concluded. The researchers who participated in the study, published last week in JAMA Dermatology, examined 21 consecutive patients who had a rash and COVID-19 at the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital in Madrid between …
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reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.July 21, 2020 An international team of researchers has developed a non-invasive blood test that can detect if a person has one of the five common types of cancer, four years before the condition can be diagnosed with current methods. The test detects cancer of the …
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How did Earth’s tectonic plates form? You might think that this would be an easy question to answer, considering that we are now trying to pin down the details of when it happened, and if there is tectonic activity on the Moon. But our knowledge of how this planetary mechanism …
Read More »Screenshot: Carnegie Mellon University If you’re visiting a friend and you find yourself stumbling sleepy at home in the middle of the night, basic common sense tells you that if you see a refrigerator, you’re probably in their kitchen. But a bathroom? More than likely you are in a bathroom. …
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