Health

Biomarker found to help predict severity of Covid-19

An international team of scientists has identified a new biomarker that could predict the severity of coronavirus disease from nasopharyngeal swab. Biology Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Heart…

5 February 2022 · 4 min read

America

What Kids Lose When They Don’t Read Books Like ‘Maus’

Last month, a Tennessee school board voted unanimously to remove the Pulitzer-prize winning graphic novel “Maus” from the district’s eighth grade curriculum on the Holocaust. In the book, American cartoonist…

5 February 2022 · 10 min read

Environment

Octopuses and squid came from space

Scientists have published an article in the journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, entitled "The Cause of the Cambrian Explosion - Earth or Space?" in which the origin of…

4 February 2022 · 3 min read

Science&Technology

Bacteria will produce rocket fuel for space missions

A group of scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a concept that bacteria will produce rocket fuel and liquid oxygen from atmospheric CO2 to power a spacecraft…

3 February 2022 · 2 min read