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Antarctic ice sheets capable of retreating up to 50 meters per day
The ice shelves surrounding the Antarctic coastline retreated at speeds of up to 50 meters…
Month: May 2020
Reintroduction of wolves tied to return of tall willows in Yellowstone National Park
The reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park is tied to the recovery of tall…
New Zealand blue whale distribution patterns tied to ocean conditions, prey availability
The researchers who recently discovered a population of blue whales in New Zealand are learning…
gnomAD Consortium releases its first major studies of human genetic variation
For the last eight years, the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) Consortium (and its predecessor, the…
Autism severity can change substantially during early childhood
A new study found that around 30 percent of young children with autism have less…
World’s oldest bug is fossil millipede from Scotland
A 425-million-year-old millipede fossil from the Scottish island of Kerrera is the world’s oldest ‘bug’…
America’s Renters Could Bear The Brunt Of Economic Collapse Due To Pandemic
According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s survey, 32 percent of tenants country-wide are not confident…
Listen: Life after a coronavirus vaccine, virtual ASCO, and remembering Larry Kramer
What happens after we get a coronavirus vaccine? Can virtual medical meetings replace the real…
Security Council: Paralysis and ‘political infighting’ must end, to boost COVID-19 fight: EU foreign affairs chief
The global coronavirus pandemic is testing the multilateral system like never before and the Security Council must…
Pharma leaders shoot down WHO voluntary pool for patent rights on Covid-19 products
The heads of some of the world’s largest drug makers expressed a mix of confusion…
STAT Plus: Bacteria are widespread in tumors, forming distinct populations depending on the cancer type
In what outside experts called the most rigorous and comprehensive survey of bacteria in human…
Yemen: Humanitarians seeking $2.41 billion to keep aid flowing amid COVID-19 pandemic
UN agencies and their global partners are seeking $2.41 billion to fight COVID-19 spread in…
Covid-19: Push to reopen schools risks new wave of infections, says Independent SAGE
It is not safe enough for all schools to reopen on 1 June and in…
Can Pregnant Women Drink Coffee?
Consuming caffeine up to 300 mg is safe for pregnant women according to the World…
Who were the Canaanites? New insight from 73 ancient genomes
The people who lived in the area known as the Southern Levant — which is…
Balancing the economy while saving the planet
A new research-based framework lets companies make informed decisions balancing economic and sustainability factors when…
Previously claimed memory boosting font ‘Sans Forgetica’ does not actually boost memory
It was previously claimed that the font Sans Forgetica could enhance people’s memory for information,…
Sugars could be the key to an earlier, more accurate test for prostate cancer
A new type of test that uses complex sugars to detect prostate cancer earlier and…
Maternity unit under investigation for baby deaths was often operating without senior doctor
A hospital trust under the spotlight over avoidable baby deaths provided inadequate antenatal care, with…
Care home reforms should prioritise quality of life
Points made by other respondents to Oliver’s article concerning the indeterminate position of care homes1…
New technique offers higher resolution molecular imaging and analysis
A new approach could help researchers understand more complicated biomolecular interactions and characterize cells and…
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The death marker protein cleans up your muscles after exercise
Researchers have demonstrated that physical activity prompts a clean-up of muscles as the protein ubiquitin…
Human growth hormone treatment after ACL injury may prevent loss of muscle strength
A new study finds the use of HGH treatment in patients that have undergone ACL…
Opinion: He was a ‘force of nature’: Anthony Fauci, Tom Frieden, and others remember Larry Kramer
“AIDS changed everything,” Larry Kramer once said. So he made it his life’s work to…
Exchange of arms between chromosomes using molecular scissors
The CRISPR/Cas molecular scissors work like a fine surgical instrument and can be used to…
Tiny, self-assembling traps capture dangerous pollutants, PFAS
A study shows that self-assembling molecular traps can be used to capture PFAS — dangerous…
Covid-19: Johnson is on back foot over next steps to control pandemic
The government’s next steps in handling the covid-19 pandemic have come under growing scrutiny with…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Glaxo aims for 1 billion doses of a Covid-19 vaccine booster; Pence aide holds lots of pharma stocks
Rise and shine, everyone, another busy day is on the way. We can tell because…
Digital event: Confronting a Pandemic — Part 4
Editor’s note: The livestream will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET. The need to…
Covid-19: Test and trace programmes are important but no silver bullet, say scientists
The success of test, trace, and isolate programmes to control the covid-19 pandemic will depend…
Big gene therapy names line up behind experimental Covid-19 vaccine
An early stage vaccine against Covid-19 based on the same basic technology used in gene…
Covid-19: WHO halts hydroxychloroquine trial to review links with increased mortality risk
The World Health Organization has halted testing of hydroxychloroquine in patients with covid-19 after a…
Shielding from covid-19 should be stratified by risk
Protecting those at most risk of dying from covid-19 while relaxing the strictures on others…
Why I . . . run
“When you start running, zero to five km are hard to accomplish,” says Derek Tracy….
Care homes after covid-19: we need a wide ranging inquiry and reform
Oliver rightly reports that care homes are in trouble.1 Covid-19 has laid bare weaknesses of…
National, regional, and worldwide epidemiology of psoriasis: systematic analysis and modelling study
AbstractObjectiveTo systematically review and provide information on the incidence of psoriasis and quantify global, regional,…
Covid-19: Questions of conscience and duty for scientific advisers
England is abandoning lockdown and possibly hope of containing a second wave of covid-19. From…
Research on covid-19 is suffering “imperfect incentives at every stage”
On 11 April Neel Shah, assistant professor of obstetrics, gynaecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard…
Covid-19: The doctors turned YouTubers
In times of uncertainty we seek information and increasingly that comes online. The world’s second…
Can the UK emulate the South Korean approach to covid-19?
On 29 February 2020, South Korea, a country of similar population size to England, recorded…
Myocardial infarction at night . . . and other stories
Timing of myocardial infarctionAn early morning peak in the incidence of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction…
The global pandemic through the eyes of the world’s children
CHICAGO — These are children of the global pandemic. In the far-north Canadian town of…
Google Gives Employees $1,000 As Work-From-Home Allowance To Help Cover Costs
According to a new announcement by CEO Sundar Pichai, tech giant Google is reportedly giving…
Side Quests: How Video Games Offer Meaningful Stories Without Violence
Here’s how video games offer meaningful stories without violence. Read Original Article: Side Quests: How…
Opinion: Challenge trials can speed development of a Covid-19 vaccine. Planning for them needs to start now
Human challenge trials, also known as controlled human infection models, are an essential tool for…
Opinion: Covid-19 is battering independent physician practices. They need help now
Autumn Road Family Practice is a small, six-doctor primary care practice that’s been caring for…
Wastewater testing gains support as an early warning system for Covid-19 cases
What only a month ago had been merely an intriguing laboratory finding about analyzing wastewater…
When hard data are ‘heartbreaking’: Testing blitz in San Francisco shows Covid-19 struck mostly low-wage workers
Early in the coronavirus outbreak, as the first infected patients trickled into Zuckerberg San Francisco…
CDC: Antibody Tests For COVID-19 May Not Always Give Correct Results
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new guidance saying government officials should…
Bee Pollination: How A Little Nudge Can Go A Long Way
A new research reveals that if bumblebees find too little pollen, they pierce the leaves…