In the ongoing game of coronavirus-based conspiracy theory whack-a-mole, yet another seemingly credible claim that the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic was manufactured in a lab has surfaced, this time from a study that claimed that the virus showed signs of being deliberately tampered with. The study was widelyread more
The medical journal The Lancet has retracted a paper that had previously brought global clinical trials on chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 to a halt, due to the discovery of serious problems regarding the data presented in the paper. The paper’s retraction was requested by its lead author, Professorread more
Researchers with the European Space Agency (ESA) are reporting that a peculiar oddity in the Earth’s magnetic field known as the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly is weakening faster than the rest of the planet’s magnetic field, and may well be showing signs of splitting into two distinct regions. First discoveredread more
A new statistical study out of the UK’s University of Nottingham has produced an estimate of how many civilizations might exist within the Milky Way that are capable of communicating with one-another between the stars. Spoiler alert: it’s 36. In a statistical study much like the famous Drake equation, astrophysicistsread more