A small new study found signs of damage to the placenta in pregnant women with COVID-19, but it’s far too early to say whether this damage actually affects birth outcomes. Most women with the novel coronavirus who had these abnormalities…
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…