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Long covid: Why are some people sick months after catching the virus?

Long covid: Why are some people sick months after catching the virus?

28 October 2020

Millions of people may be experiencing long-term symptoms after recovering from covid-19 – possibly because the virus is hiding from the immune system


How the US response to covid-19 broke its world-class health agencies

How the US response to covid-19 broke its world-class health agencies

28 October 2020

A series of bad decisions and ill-judged policies, coupled with unrivalled political interference, has led to the FDA and CDC losing the trust of the public and scientists


A welcome back sign outside a department store in Melbourne

Melbourne lockdown lifts as second wave of covid-19 is eliminated

27 October 2020

Australians have been celebrating the end of a strict lockdown in Melbourne after cases of coronavirus were eliminated in the state of Victoria


moon

NASA confirms there is water on the moon that astronauts could use

26 October 2020

Two studies of water on the moon have confirmed that it may be more abundant and accessible to astronauts than previously thought


CRISPR weapon spread by bacterial sex could destroy deadly superbugs

CRISPR weapon spread by bacterial sex could destroy deadly superbugs

26 October 2020

Bacteria armed with a CRISPR-based weapon that infects other microbes during the bacterial equivalent of sex could help us kill off dangerous antibiotic-resistant superbugs – if regulators approve their use


CRISPR turns normal body fat into a type that burns energy

CRISPR turns normal body fat into a type that burns energy

23 October 2020

Animal studies suggest the metabolic conditions linked to obesity could be treated by using CRISPR gene editing to turn normal fat into heat-producing beige fat


Mathematicians have found the shortest route to visit 2 million stars

Mathematicians have found the shortest route to visit 2 million stars

23 October 2020

The travelling salesman problem – finding the shortest route between many locations – is notoriously tough, but it has now been solved for a map of over 2 million stars


Cats cost Australia A$6 billion a year by spreading diseases

Cats cost Australia A$6 billion a year by spreading diseases

23 October 2020

Toxoplasmosis and cat scratch disease, which spread parasites and bacteria, cost Australia billions each year in lost productivity and medical costs


Air pollution

China's cuts to air pollution may have saved 150,000 lives each year

22 October 2020

Levels of harmful particulate matter in China’s air have been falling since 2015, and this may have prevented 150,000 premature deaths per year


Ambopteryx longibrachium

The first flying dinosaurs were a failed evolutionary experiment

22 October 2020

Yi qi and Ambopteryx longibrachium, the first dinosaurs to take to the air, had wings made of membranes like bats, but they could barely glide and were soon outcompeted by birds


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