Coronavirus Pandemic: The Latest Numbers
Tuesday, April 7
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This month, the world should get the first results from a clinical trial testing the drug remdesivir against Covid-19. They will get a lot of... Read More
There's a lot of news to catch up on, and to keep things straight I'll divide the hydroxychloroquine part out into this post, and cover... Read More
Daily updated graphs illustrating the rising COVID-19 death rates in different countries raise hopes that we can understand the impact of the... Read More
Doctors, nurses, and other health workers are the acknowledged heroes of the Covid-19 pandemic. So why do so many online... Read More
Astronomers have captured this unprecedented view of gas clouds glowing around the jet of a giant black hole in a distant galaxy. Taken with... Read More
First they blamed GMOs. Then biowarfare. Now a new COVID conspiracy theory is making the rounds, purportedly linking the ongoing global... Read More
When Andrew Wiles proved Fermat's Last Theorem in the early 1990s, his proof was hailed as a monumental step forward not just for... Read More
The scene is like something out of a dreamscape: schools of fish swimming through a forest of gnarled, thick-trunked cypress trees that were... Read More
Two weeks ago, French doctors published a provocative observation in a microbiology journal. In the absence of a known treatment for... Read More
Gravity is the weakest of the fundamental forces, but it's the only force that operates over very long distances. Hence, planets orbit stars,... Read More
We are slowly approaching that moment when, despite all of our best efforts, we are one ventilator shy of what we need. It is time to share... Read More
A team of researchers primarily based out of Stanford University has engineered a proof-of-concept smart toilet module designed to monitor a... Read More
Nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s have helped scientists accurately estimate the age of whale sharks, the biggest... Read More
Scientists at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) have created a paper-like material derived from pollen that bends... Read More
They say variety is the spice of life, and now new discoveries from Johns Hopkins researchers suggest that a certain elemental... Read More
The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants – Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune – are hot, just like Earth's. But unlike... Read More
The brain is one of our most vulnerable organs, as soft as the softest tofu. Brain implants, on the other hand, are typically made from metal... Read More
Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new device for connecting the brain directly to silicon-based technologies. While... Read More
Old human cells can become more youthful by coaxing them to briefly express proteins used to make induced pluripotent cells, Stanford... Read More
Running is great exercise but not everyone feels great doing it. In hopes of boosting physical activity – and possibly creating a new... Read More
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