40 articles from SATURDAY 24.10.2020
Crews vacuum 'murder hornets' out of Washington nest
Heavily protected crews in Washington state worked Saturday to destroy the first nest of so-called murder hornets discovered in the United States. The state Agriculture Department had spent weeks searching, trapping and using dental floss to tie tracking devices to Asian giant hornets, which can deliver painful stings to people and spit venom but are the biggest threat to honeybees that farmers...
Interactive: see how your favourite dog breeds are related to each other
The origin of modern dogs lies tens of thousands of years ago, but how does a wolf become a pomeranian?Now renowned as a steady family pet, the labradoodle was invented in the 90s to be a low-allergen seeing-eye dog. The breed’s recent origin and portmanteau name makes it rather obvious that labradors and poodles were blended in the creation of the labradoodle. But what about the other 400 or so...
Resting places for Boeing’s moon rovers win Washington state landmark status
Three spots on the moon are now official Washington state historic landmarks, thanks to a unanimous vote by a state commission. The thumbs-up, delivered on Friday during a virtual public hearing organized by the Washington State Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, provided state landmark status to the rovers that Boeing built during the 1960s at its facilities in Kent, Wash., and that NASA...
How to stop being a people pleaser
Do you find it hard to say no? Are you always trying to second guess what someone else wants you to do? It’s time you learned to stop being so eager to please“Can you come to this meeting?” No. “Yes.”“Are you free on Saturday night?” No, I’m watching Spiral. “Yes.” Continue...
In Colorado, It Feels Like a Fire Season Without End
GRANBY, Colo. -- "Pray for snow," is the refrain every autumn across Colorado's high country as people wait for blizzards to blanket ski slopes, recharge reservoirs and bring in the wintertime tourists.But on Friday, people were praying for the snow to save their homes. It was their only hope for relief from a spree of late-season wildfires that have choked skies with smoke and sent...
Physicists made a superconductor that works at room temperature. It could one day give rise to high-speed floating trains.
The superconductor only works at pressures roughly equal to those in the Earth's core, but it shows room-temperature superconductors are...
NASA just picked a winner in its space-toilet competition. The $20,000 prize awards the best 'lunar loo' for moon-bound astronauts.
The winners interviewed former astronaut Susan Helms for inspiration on how to design a better space...
Fast, cheap, accurate: Researchers pin hopes on Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR-technology tests to detect coronavirus
UC Berkeley's Nobel Prize winner and MIT researchers employ gene-editing technology to develop rapid COVID-19 virus...
Drug companies shouldn’t play favorites in granting access to experimental covid-19 treatments
In the past month, US President Donald Trump and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie were diagnosed with covid-19 and spent time in the hospital, just like tens of thousands of other Americans nearly every day since the pandemic began.
But Trump and Christie were special cases. They received experimental covid-19 treatments that are not readily available to the general public. They have...
Neil Ferguson: easing Covid rules for Christmas is 'political judgment'
The scientist whose modelling influenced the UK-wide lockdown says family meetups ‘risk some transmission’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe scientist whose modelling led to the original UK lockdown has said it would be a political judgment whether restrictions on households mixing should be relaxed over Christmas.Prof Neil Ferguson said policymakers would have...
Osiris-Rex: Nasa probe risks losing asteroid sample after door jams
The Osiris-Rex spacecraft collected so much rock from asteroid Bennu that bits are leaking...
Osiris-Rex: Nasa probe risks losing asteroid sample after door jams
The Osiris-Rex spacecraft collected so much rock from asteroid Bennu that bits are leaking out.
Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft
A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week's grab that it's jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space, scientists said Friday.
South America ravaged by unprecedented drought and fires
Under stress from a historic drought, large swathes of forest and wetlands in central South America known for their exceptional biodiversity have been ravaged by devastating fires.
Galapagos sees record rise in penguins, flightless cormorants
The population of Galapagos penguins and flightless cormorants, two species endemic to the islands, has seen a record increase, study results released Friday showed.
With its new space centre, NATO seeks the ultimate high ground
It's not the Space Force you may have heard about. Still, NATO’s newly announced space centre boldly takes the seven-decade-old institution where no international military alliance has gone...
Boris Johnson is learning that in politics you cannot simply 'follow the science'
The prime minister is trying to pretend that nakedly political decisions are driven by data. But almost no one buys itWhat happened to following the science? In the spring, when Boris Johnson and his scientific advisers were proceeding in lockstep, there was no disagreement about the necessity of shutting the country down. Now the government is coming to its own conclusions about what is needed,...
Coronavirus live news: Vaccine trial restarts as cluster worsens in Victoria, Australia
Dr Fauci says White House task force meeting less despite rising infection rates; WHO warns of ‘exponential’ rise in cases. Follow updates 7.05am BST Thailand reported one more locally transmitted case of the coronavirus on Saturday, after confirming five domestic infections last week.The new patient is a 57-year-old French woman in the southern province of Surat Thani who tested positive for...
UK could be urged to keep windows open in effort to curb Covid-19
Scientists call for information campaign as evidence on role of poor ventilation mountsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBritons could be urged to throw open the windows in an effort to keep coronavirus at bay as scientists call for a public information campaign to stress the importance of ventilation in reducing its spread.A paper by the Environmental and Modelling...
'Our hospital is not built for a pandemic': Hospitals again struggle to keep up with the surging number of COVID-19 cases across the nation
Hospitalizations for people infected with the new coronavirus have increased in 38 states in the last...
Cause of Alzheimer's disease traced to mutation in common enzyme
- EurekAlert
- 20/10/24 06:00
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered a new mechanism by which clumps of tau protein are created in the brain, killing brain cells and causing Alzheimer's disease. A specific mutation to an enzyme called MARK4 changed the properties of tau, usually an important part of the skeletal structure of cells, making it more likely to aggregate, and more insoluble. Getting to grips...
Model predicts acute kidney injury requiring dialysis in patients with COVID-19
- EurekAlert
- 20/10/24 06:00
In a recent study, a new algorithm achieved good performance for predicting which hospitalized patients will develop acute kidney injury requiring dialysis. Results from the study will be presented online during ASN Kidney Week 2020 Reimagined October 19-October 25.
New model predicts which patients with kidney disease may develop heartbeat irregularities
- EurekAlert
- 20/10/24 06:00
* A new model that incorporates a type of artificial intelligence can accurately predict which individuals with chronic kidney disease face a high risk of developing atrial fibrillation.* Results from the study will be presented online during ASN Kidney Week 2020 Reimagined October 19-October 25.
Oncotarget: Evaluation of cellular alteration & inflammatory profile of cells
- EurekAlert
- 20/10/24 06:00
Oncotarget recently published "Evaluation of cellular alterations and inflammatory profile of mesothelial cells and/or neoplastic cells exposed to talc used for pleurodesis"
NASA spacecraft leaking asteroid rubble into space after collecting more than expected
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was successful in its mission to collect a sample from asteroid Bennu, but perhaps too...