SpaceX is poised to make history today (May 27). The company’s first-ever crewed mission, a test flight called Demo-2, is scheduled to launch at 4:33 p.m. EDT (2033 GMT) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. You can watch the…
A scanning electron microscope image of a T cell infected with HIV. The oldest known nearly complete gene sequence from the HIV strain that spread across the world has been found in a tissue sample from the Democratic Republic of…
The baby girl’s parents and her seven-year-old sister are also in hospital after drinking the blood which was reportedly recommended to them by a witch doctor as Covid-19 protection The baby was given the potion after the family visited a…
So, so thicc. UPDATE: The tadpole titan affectionately known as “Goliath” died in 2019, according to a tweet written on May 26, 2020 by herpetologist Earyn McGee; she introduced Twitter to Goliath in 2018, when this article was originally published.…
The child and her family were visiting Tangli Happy Play Valley in Dalian, in north-eastern China’s Liaoning Province, when her safety harness failed to protect her The girl reportedly fell through one of the purposely built one-foot-wide gaps (Image: AsiaWire)…
EPIC!! Check out this incredible vision captured by Mel Aldridge not long ago at Cashmore near Portland! We’re getting plenty of reports. @abcmelbourne pic.twitter.com/1KuldCy6OJMay 22, 2020 Russia launched a military satellite to orbit on Friday (May 22), and the mission…
Microscopic image of an open Tupanvirus particle, a type of giant virus Giant viruses, which measure about 10 times the size of a typical cold virus, infiltrate cells and inject their DNA through a special portal known as a “stargate.”…
In a separate incident from the one described here, a loon launches out of the water to scare off a bald eagle. A bald eagle likely thought that grabbing a tiny loon chick would be an easy meal. It wasn’t. …
One of the first questions scientists ask when a new disease appears is, “Where did this come from?” Many viruses jump from animals to humans, a phenomenon known as “zoonotic spillover.” Although it remains unclear which animal was the source…
The seven-year-old’s mum says she is lucky to be alive after the tortoise, weighing around a kilogram, plummeted from a high-rise block of flats as she played in the street in southern China The young girl was struck by a…