Overworked health workers face jeers, harassment, attacks amid wave of cases.
Scientists test medieval gunpowder recipes with 15th-century cannon replica
A bit of sulfur, a dash of charcoal, a lot of saltpeter and… KABOOM!
Gene Editing ‘Would Allow Us To Create Hardier Farm Breeds’
Leading UK researchers, vets and farmers have urged ministers to free livestock science of unnecessary legal curbs as the country prepares, post-Brexit, to ease gene-editing rules. Such a move would allow the creation of new breeds of animals resistant…
Malaria seems to be evolving to hide from rapid tests
Avoiding tests means avoiding treatment, and that means further infections.
A Virginia company has connected mobile phones directly to satellites
Lynk will start with intermittent text messages and expand from there.
Physicists may have cracked the case of “Zen” stones balanced on ice pedestals
The stone creates shade, causing variations in sublimation of the surrounding ice
Identical Twins Carry Genetic Modifications No One Else Has
sciencehabit shares a report from Science.org: Identical twins are living proof of how genetics shapes our looks and traits. Now, researchers have found they carry a molecular signature on their DNA that no one else has — one that becomes fixed in the…
Air pollution likely cause of up to 6m premature births, study finds
Global analysis of indoor and outdoor pollution also finds link to low birth weightAir pollution is likely to have been responsible for up to 6 million premature births and 3 million underweight babies worldwide every year, research shows. The analysis…
Poll: 71% of unvaccinated say booster doses mean vaccines aren’t working
“We will not boost our way out of this pandemic.”
We’re about to run out of Atlantic hurricane names—again
Greek names are out, supplemental names are in.