The world’s largest COVID-19 vaccine study began Monday. A total of 30,000 planned volunteers will help evaluate the effectiveness and safety of a vaccine developed by the National Institutes of Health and the drug maker Moderna. Volunteers will each receive two dose one shot. They will not know if they …
Read More »Uber pushes its contact tracking to health departments
Ride-share company Uber has been sharing information about its drivers and passengers with health officials for months. Now the company is promoting This free service worldwide to assist in COVID-19 contact tracking efforts Company officials say Uber designed a website where government health agencies can easily search his records. Contact …
Read More »Scientists launch the largest 3D map in the universe
Scientists have released the largest three-dimensional, or 3D map of the universe ever created. The map is the result of a project launched more than 20 years ago by an international group of astrophysicists. The project aimed to map the universe using data collected from a telescope in the state …
Read More »Spaceship takes the closest pictures of the sun
A European and POT The spacecraft has sent the closest images ever taken of the sun’s surface. They show that the surface has thousands of small solar flares, or what scientists call “bonfires”. Scientists published the first images taken by Solar Orbiter last week. The spacecraft was launched from Cape …
Read More »Studies suggest T cells are important in fighting coronavirus
What it gives some people immunity of the new coronavirus, the virus that causes COVID-19? Some scientists are studying whether it is the presence of antibodies. Others are studying a part of the human immune system, known as T cells, that can protect people from viruses. Recent studies show that …
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