Anders Tegnell, the state epidemiologist of the Public Health Agency of Sweden, at a press briefing in April 2020 The epidemiologist who led Sweden’s controversial COVID-19 response, which did not involve a strict lockdown, now says that the country should…
Nearly 4 in 10 American adults reported engaging in dangerous cleaning practices to prevent COVID-19, such as washing food with bleach, using household disinfecting products on their skin or intentionally inhaling vapors from cleaning products, according to a recent survey.…
This 2002 photo of a giant larvacean shows the animal (in blue) and the inner filter of its mucous structure it built around itself. Hundreds of feet below the sea surface, teeny-tiny sea creatures secrete snotty blobs from cells on…
Police and onlookers stand on the banks of the Velliyar River in Palakkad district of Kerala on May 27, 2020, as a dead wild elephant is pulled from the water. The elephant died following injuries it sustained after eating a…
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Natalia, 45, is claimed to have stabbed 60-year-old Vasily repeatedly before grabbing an axe handle and beating him to a pulp – in front of her 16-year-old daughter Natalia is pictured outside her home covered in blood…
Taking the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine did not prevent people from coming down with COVID-19 after being exposed to the disease, according to a new study. The study, published Wednesday (June 3) in the New England Journal of Medicine, is the…
Primatologist Jane Goodall said that humanity must “drastically change our diets” and our treatment of wild and farmed animals if we want to avoid future pandemics after COVID-19 subsides. “Our disrespect for wild animals and our disrespect for farmed animals…
Around the country, hundreds of thousands of people are flooding the streets to protest police brutality and racism after the death of George Floyd, who died after now-former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin held him down with a knee on…
The last meal of the 3,000-lb. (1,360 kilograms) “sleeping dragon” dinosaur is so beautifully preserved, scientists now know exactly what the armored beast ate before it died about 112 million years ago, a new study finds. Extraordinary circumstances left the…
Fragments of the dead sea scrolls photographed in a lab in Jerusalem, Israel in 2012. The Dead Sea Scrolls are made up of tens of thousands of manuscript fragments — mostly made of parchment, or animal skin. Now, scientists are…