2019-03-01
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Remdesivir Falls Through as a COVID-19 Treatment
October 20, 2020A large-scale clinical trial conducted by the World Health Organization has determined that Gilead Sciences Inc.'s remdesivir had little or no effect on COVID-19 patients' chances of survival or length of hospital stay. The antiviral drug had been granted Emergency... continued
Room Temperature Superconductivity Has Been Achieved
October 17, 2020Researchers at the University of Rochester have produced a material that is superconductive at room temperature, the holy grail of materials development that holds the potential to revolutionize virtually every aspect of modern technology—all without the need for bulky refrigeration... continued
Meet the New and Evolved Human, Now With an Extra Blood Vessel in Our Arms
October 15, 2020Evolutionary researchers in Australia and Germany have found evidence for the continuing physical evolution of the human species, through the increasing presence in modern humans of a third major artery in our forearms. Typically, the job of supplying blood to... continued
Japan’s Military Is Now on the Lookout for UFOs
October 12, 2020One month after the U.S. Department of Defense issued similar guidelines, Japan's Ministry of Defense has issued official protocols for Japanese defense personnel to report encounters with UFOs. The instructions were announced by Defense Minister Tarō Kōno on September 28,... continued
Could There Be Planets in the Cosmos Even More Habitable Than Earth?
October 9, 2020 Earth, at least for now, is the most habitable planet that we're aware of, having been home to lifeforms for nearly the entirety of the planet's existence, now boasting a complex and diverse biosphere that is (probably) the envy... continued
Earth May Be Headed for a “Hothouse” State Not Seen Since the Fall of the Dinosaurs
October 6, 2020A new detailed map of the Earth's climate over the past 66 million years has been constructed, and it predicts that the planet is headed toward a hothouse state not seen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. This new climatological... continued
President Moved to Walter Reed Medical Center
October 2, 2020President Trump went to Walter Reed Medical Center Friday afternoon, 24 hours after testing positive for COVD-19. The president is on a treatment regimen that includes an experimental polyclonal cocktail of antibodies developed by pharmaceutical company Regeneron. He is also... continued
New Bodies of Water Have Been Found Under the Surfaces of Mars and Ceres
September 30, 2020Two years after first finding evidence of a liquid-water lake under the southern ice cap of Mars, the same research team responsible for the 2018 discovery has found evidence of even more bodies of water under the frozen Martian wastes.... continued
Scientists Developing a Vaccine that Spreads Like a Virus. What Could Go Wrong?
September 28, 2020Should artificial self-spreading vaccines that confer mass immunity be released. Or is that a good idea? A group of scientists believe that it may be possible to use the self-spreading qualities of viruses to spread immunity instead of disease. If... continued
COVID-19 Has Killed Two Hundred Thousand Americans
September 26, 2020On September 22, 2020, the United States marked a grim milestone in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with the coronavirus having killed its 200,000th victim. The number of American casualties currently stands at 203,800, the highest of any single nation in... continued