The woman was staying at a migrant holding centre on the small Italian island of Lampedusa. She gave birth on a helicopter while being transferred to a hospital in Palermo, Sicily
There’s yet more evidence that cheap, widely available steroids can help save the lives of critically ill COVID-19 patients. In a new analysis that included data from seven clinical trials, the drugs reduced the risk of death among patients by…
A bogus claim circulating social media — one that purports that “only 6%” of the reported COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are solely attributable to the new coronavirus — is dangerously misleading, infectious disease experts told Live Science. This claim…
Images of SARS-CoV-2 captured with a scanning electron microscope. The SARS-CoV-2 virus particles appear as tiny, ball-looking structures. The noodle-like projections in the images are cilia, or hair-like structures on the surface of some airway cells. Striking new images show…
A new visualization shows why face shields and masks with exhalation valves may not be the best barriers for preventing the spread of COVID-19. Although face shields initially block droplets from a simulated cough, small droplets can easily move around…
UFO enthusiasts think a flying saucer-shaped alien spaceship has been discovered at the bottom of a US river – but is all as it seems? Alien life conspiracy theorists believe they have stumbled-across a miniature UFO after an odd-looking metal…