Early COVID-19 images of swabbing from Wuhan, China, looked more like an Ebola news story – health care workers were completely immersed in personal protective equipment (PPE), inserting swabs so deep that brain damage seemed difficult. When COVID-19 (and testing) spread around the world, there were reports of “the brain …
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For their own self-preservation, infected bacteria often try their best to stay out of the immune system in our bodies – and scientists have found a surprising and previously undiscovered way to do this. What happens is that the bacteria release toxins to disarm the mitochondria in immune cells, those …
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The Internet has transformed most areas of our lives over the last few decades, and technology continues to improve: researchers are simply setting a new record for data transfer rates, recording an unbelievable speed of 178 terabits per second (Tbps). That’s about a fifth faster than the previous record, set …
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For the first time, pressure more than 100 times found in the Earth’s core has been generated in a lab, setting a new record. Using the highest energy laser system in the world, physicists have subjected short solid hydrocarbon samples to pressures up to 450 megabars, which means 450 million …
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Greenland’s major ice block saw a record net loss of 532 billion tonnes last year, raising red flags over accelerating sea level rise, according to findings released Thursday. That equates to an additional 3 million tons of water flowing into global oceans every day, like six Olympic-sized swimming pools every …
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