n We’ll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story n The director of the hospital in China’s coronavirus epicentre has died from the disease himself. n Dr Liu Zhiming, director of Wuhan…
An aye-aye in Madagascar. The aye-aye is one of nature’s most fascinatingly bizarre creatures. Native to Madagascar, this lemur is the largest nocturnal primate in the world and has unique features that set it apart. It has bat‐like ears that…
Nightmares are the worst. The sheets are damp with sweat. You’re cold, but your heart is racing as if an assailant just chased you down a dark street. It was just a nightmare, you tell yourself; there’s nothing to be…
People who are high on cannabis are more likely to form false memories, in which they wrongly “remember” information that they never actually learned or recall snippets of an event that never happened, new research suggests. False memories can arise…
n The World Health Organisation has said hand dryers won’t kill coronavirus and neither will spraying alcohol or chlorine all over your body. China’s latest figures showed 68,500 cases of the illness and 1,665 deaths, most of them in Hubei.…
A journal highlighted the close link of bats and the coronavirus-like pathogens after researchers were attacked by bats in secret labs just a stone’s throw away from the notorious wet market in Wuhan where it has been thought up to…
Tiger Ye, 21, was initially rejected by the doctors and had to self-quarantine at home until his temperature soared up to 39C within days as the coronavirus took its toll A Chinese student struck down with coronavirus has shared his…
This image of a muscle tissue cell, magnified 1200X, reveals a cluster of Trypanosoma cruzi organisms. The award-winning movie “Parasite” recently won audiences’ hearts around the world. While that interaction was benign (for most), encounters with real-world parasites are linked…
Coronavirus may be in the headlines, but it’s still flu season, and a weird one at that — officials are seeing a new spike in flu activity as a second strain of flu hits on the heels of the first.…
This scanning electron microscope image shows the new coronavirus (yellow) among human cells (blue, pink and purple). On Thursday (Feb. 13), a Chinese senior health official called on people who had recovered from the new coronavirus to donate blood plasma,…