NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are releasing new images of the sun on Thursday morning, bringing humans closer to our host star than ever before. The photos are the first captured by Solar Orbiter, which was released earlier this year. After its launch on February 9, Solar Orbiter …
Read More »Outside the Paisley Caves entrance.Image: John Blong For archaeologists, ancient bones and stone tools are important lines of evidence, but sometimes the answers to our past can be found in piles of human excrement, as a major new analysis shows. From 2002 to 2010, aArchaeologists collected dozens of coprolites, or …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian scientists praised the results of their first clinical trial of a possible coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday, saying it had been shown to be safe and that the volunteers had developed an immune response. FILE PHOTO: A computer image created by Nexu Science Communication in conjunction with …
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Millions of years An unknown common ancestor of today’s llamas, camels and alpacas underwent an unusual genetic mutation. This evolutionary occurrence gave llamas and their relatives a strange type of antibody that no other mammal has, which, surprisingly, could end up aiding in the fight against Covid-19. This Monday in …
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Researchers from the University of Houston claimed to have designed a special air filter that can trap the new coronavirus and exploit it with heat to kill the disease on contact. Dr. Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Superconductivity Center at UH, is the brain behind the project, the Houston …
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