Nicki Raman serves Beth Derry and Scott Deckard at the Peppermint Downtown Thai restaurant on May 11, 2020, in Palm Beach, Florida. The restaurant opened as Palm Beach County, starts the first phase of the states coronavirus pandemic reopening plan.…
Fitness dance classes are yet another venue where the new coronavirus appears to easily spread, according to a new report. The report found that dozens of people in South Korea caught COVID-19 after participating in fitness dance classes at the…
Social distancing has become the norm for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, but keeping these measures in place for months on end could cause economic devastation. Now, a new study suggests a potential strategy for fighting COVID-19 while reducing economic impacts.…
A Madagascan marbled praying mantis grabs at a dangling fly. New slow-motion video shows how praying mantises snatch their prey with lightning-fast, deadly precision. Though these strikes are completed in microseconds, the long-armed predators calibrate their attacks even more quickly…
The baby hippo is mama Mabel’s first calf. The San Diego Zoo recently announced its newest (and arguably cutest) arrival: a newborn male pygmy hippo, born on April 9 to its 4-year-old pygmy hippo mama Mabel. Within hours of birth,…
The U.S. launched espionage satellites during the Cold War to locate Soviet missile sites, but in doing so, they also captured photos of animals and their historic habitats, Science magazine reported. Now, scientists have put these 1960s snapshots to new…
A new strain of the hepatitis E virus that usually only infects rats is now sickening people in Hong Kong, with nearly a dozen human cases reported so far, according to news reports. But exactly how the virus jumps from…
Bones found in Tanque Loma represent 22 sloths; adults and juveniles. During the Ice Age, a group of giant ground sloths died together after swallowing their own feces in a contaminated pool of shallow water. Scientists discovered the bones of…
Olga Ovinnikova claims that her face has been left badly burned after medical masks at the hospital she works at in Karabanovo, Russia were cleaned with bleach and then reused Olga Ovinnikova suffered chemical burns to her face A nurse…
As a physician, mother, daughter and socially responsible human, I’m finding Mother’s Day to be complicated for me this year, as it is for millions. Questions of whether and how to see my adult children and my own elderly mother…