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Preventing the Next Pandemic: Scientists Say We Must Regulate Air Like Food and Water
Humans in the 21st century spend most of their time indoors, but the air we breathe inside buildings is not regulated to the same degree as the food we eat…
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Preventing the Next Pandemic: Scientists Say We Must Regulate Air Like Food and Water
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Accidental Release From a Lab or Zoonotic Spillover? Scientists Call for Investigation Into the Origins of COVID-19
Letter From Scientists: Investigate the Origins of COVID-19 More investigation is needed to determine the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, say Jesse Bloom, Alina Chan, Ralph Baric, David Relman and…
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Evolutionary Biologists Just Discovered How Some Lizards Are Able to Breathe Underwater
Close-up of an Anolis lizard with a rebreathing bubble on its snout. Credit: Lindsey Swierk A team of evolutionary biologists from the University of Toronto has shown that Anolis lizards,…
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How to Cloak an Object to Become Invisible to a Thermal Camera
Theoretical method can make objects invisible to a thermal camera, or mimic a different object. Can you feel the heat? To a thermal camera, which measures infrared radiation, the heat…
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Prehistoric Fossilized Footprints Show Earliest Known Evidence of Mammals at the Seashore
A reconstruction of the brown-bear-sized mammals (Coryphodon) that made thousands of tracks in a 58-million-year-old, brackish water lagoon in what is now southern Wyoming. Credit: Anton Wroblewski Today, the rocks…
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Supercomputer Simulations Reveal How Dominant COVID-19 Strain Binds to Host, Succumbs to Antibodies
Supercomputer simulations at Los Alamos National Laboratory demonstrated that the G form of SARS-CoV-2, the dominant strain of the virus causing COVID-19, mutated to a conformation that allows it to…
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African Forest Elephants Are Now Critically Endangered – Here’s How to Count Them
A team of scientists compared methodologies to count African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis), which were recently acknowledged by IUCN as a separate, Critically Endangered species from African savannah elephants. Credit:…
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Solving The Mystery of the Pointy Droplets
Credit: Leiden University A certain type of oil droplets changes shape when cooled and shrunk: from spherical through icosahedral to flat hexagonal. Two competing theories couldn’t fully explain this, but…
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Signs of a Puzzling State of Matter Discovered in a Superconductor
Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory used an improved X-ray technique to explore exotic states of matter in an unconventional superconductor that conducts electricity with 100% efficiency at relatively high…
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Archaeologists Discover Oldest Direct Evidence for Honey Collecting in Africa in Ancient Clay Pots
Traces of beeswax were detected in 3500 year-old clay pots like this. Credit: Peter Breunig, Goethe University Frankfurt Scientists at Goethe University and University of Bristol (UK) find traces of…