Figures released by China show the spread of coronavirus is rapidly slowing, suggesting the state’s hardline measures are working, as quarantine measures in some cities are relaxed China appears to be winning the war on coronavirus with new cases dropping…
MH370 went missing six years ago today and its disappearance remains one of the biggest aviation mysteries in world history. So what happened to MH370? On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to…
With more than 378 confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. and more than 15 associated deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is actively monitoring, and trying to contain, the transmission of the disease, called COVID-19. In some…
Could the flu vaccine combat the coronavirus? That’s the question President Donald Trump asked during a White house roundtable discussion between his coronavirus task force and pharmaceutical company executives on Monday (March 2). His question was answered with a direct…
Plastics, plastics everywhere. We’re drowning in plastic. In 2017, the U.S. produced nearly 35.4 million tons (32 million metric tons) of the stuff, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. If you want to reduce your own contribution to the plastic…
A resident of Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island, a Polynesian territory of Chile) was arrested last week for damaging one of the island’s sacred moai statues with his pickup truck, Chilean news site Cooperativa reported. Local police said…
Doctors in crisis-hit Wuhan carried out an autopsy on one 85-year-old victim and discovered he had suffered extensive scarring to his lungs after falling ill with COVID-19 in January Medics tackling coronavirus say the disease is like a deadly combination…
MH370 has a bizarre link to former US President Barack Obama – as he made a major political decision two days before the disappearance that one expert has suggested could have triggered the plane’s kidnap. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went…
These 99 million-year-old discoveries represent “the only known dinosaur age cave survivors.” Lenka Podstrelená, Sendi et al. Gondwana Res 2020 (Copyright Elsevier 2020)The two species likely descended from a common ancestor, before the supercontinent of Gondwana drifted apart. An international…
Children are no less likely than adults to become infected with the new coronavirus, but they are less likely to get seriously ill from it. Those are the results of a new study from China’s Shenzhen province uploaded on the…