How AI can help find a coronavirus vaccine
How AI can help find a coronavirus vaccine Length: 6:17 | Jun 12, 2020 Murat Sonmez, managing director of the World Economic Forum, explains how big data and machine learning…
Hairstylists with COVID-19 didn’t infect any of their 140 clients. Face masks may be why.
Two hair stylists in Missouri interacted with a total of 140 clients and six coworkers before learning they both had COVID-19 — thankfully, the stylists didn’t pass the virus on…
Temperature spike: Earth ties record high heat May reading, say US scientists
Earth’s temperature spiked to tie a record high for May, U.S. meteorologists reported Friday. Last month the global average temperature was 60.3 degrees (15.7 degrees Celsius), tying 2016 for the…
Anti-poverty scheme linked to lower deforestation rates in Indonesia
By Adam Vaughan Indonesia’s deforestation rate is the world’s highestMahastra Wibisono A poverty alleviation programme has been linked with reducing forest loss in Indonesian villages by nearly a third, in…
An Obscure Field of Math Might Help Unlock Mysteries of Human Perception
This originally appeared in the July/August issue of Discover magazine as “Your Hyperbolic Mind.” Support our science journalism by becoming a subscriber. The human brain is both a marvel and a mystery of…
Ancient crocodile walked on two legs
A hefty, 10-foot-long (3 meters) crocodile relative had an odd way of getting around 120 million years ago in what is now South Korea. The huge beast walked on its…
Confident of winning UNSC seat, no takers for Pakistan’s propaganda: India’s Envoy to UN
File photo of India’s envoy to the UN Ambassador TS Tirumurti (Picture Courtesy: Twitter @DDNewslive) In his first interview after taking over as India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations…
First coronavirus R numbers for regions within England released
By Clare Wilson Godrevy Lighthouse in Cornwall. England’s South West has the highest R number in EnglandAndrew Michael/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The South West of England has…
Three people with inherited diseases successfully treated with CRISPR
By Michael Le Page Sickle cell disease can distort red blood cellsStocktrek Images, Inc/Alamy Two people with beta thalassaemia and one with sickle cell disease no longer require blood transfusions,…
When did the ‘Dark Ages of the Universe’ end? This rare molecule holds the answer.
Update: This study, which had been described in the preprint database arXiv, has now been published in the peer-reviewed Astrophysical Journal. Long ago, millions of years before the first star…