People Are Dating All Wrong, According to Data Science
Joel scheduled a talk in October 2019 at the University of Waterloo in Canada with the straightforward title: “Can we help people pick better romantic partners?” So, can Samantha Joel—teaming…
World Needs Food System ‘Transformation’ To Tackle Climate Change: Report
Cynthia Rosenzweig discusses the potential effect climate change will have on food.Paris, France: Food is fundamental to the efforts to tackle climate change, according to a scientist who has spent…
WIRED’s Picks for the 15 Books You Need to Read This Summer
Perhaps it’s something in the air, but right now it seems as though half the new books on shelves deal with the climate crisis in some way. The environment is…
What Will Replace Insects When They’re Gone?
Still, a less abusive association with insects will have to include some new ideas. If we are to intensively farm smaller areas in order to surrender space to the wilds,…
Using Blood Tests, Machine Learning Model Predicts Covid Survival Chances: Study
The study has been published in the ‘PLOS Digital Health Journal’ (Representational)Washington: In a new study, a single blood sample from critically ill COVID-19 patients was used for analysis by…
Immune Memory Less Durable Post Severe Covid: Study
The study has been published in the ‘PLOS ONE Journal’. (Representational)Texas: According to new research, infection-fighting B cells retain better memory of the coronavirus spike protein in patients who recover…
Pregnant Women With Covid Give Normal Births: Study
The research has been published in the ‘Journal of Perinatal Medicine’. (Representational)Washington: A study found that babies born to women who had COVID-19 during pregnancy had shown reassuring patterns of…
Alpha Covid Variant Detected In Dogs, Cats: Report
This variant rapidly outcompeted pre-existing variants in England (Representational)Washington: A new study in the Veterinary Record reveals that pets can be infected with the alpha variant of SARS-CoV-2, which was…
‘EVE Online’ Gamers Role-Play as Covid-19 Researchers
They know all about saving fictional worlds, but gamers are now being called upon by researchers to lend a hand in one of humankind’s biggest crises—the Covid-19 pandemic. So far,…
White Dwarf ‘Switches on and Off’ for First Time, Astronomers Baffled
Astronomers have observed an accreting white dwarf abruptly lose and gain its brightness for the first time. White dwarfs are stars that have run out of their basic fuel: hydrogen.…