WEIRD SCIENCE
By Nick Lavars – 2020 Apr 26 – A new discovery paves the way for novel drugs that could help safeguard DNA and slow the aging process. Sashkin7/Depositphotos. – Central to a lot of scientific research into aging are tiny caps on the ends …
By Rich Haridy 2020 Apr 22 – Potent antibodies from recovered patients may be cloned and turned into novel COVID-19 treatments. kasto/Depositphotos. – As researchers rekindle a more than 100-year-old therapy, using blood from recovered COVID-19 subjects as a treatment for newly infected patients, …
By Loz Blain – 2020 Apr 23 – The Nova’s ball is completely isolated, with its own battery system, and is driven by omni wheels in the base. Eight360. – By far the most extreme gaming and simulation platform we’ve seen, the Nova places …
By Michael Irving – 2020 Apr 20 – Hubble observations of 2I/Borisov reveal its chemical composition is unlike any local comet. NASA, ESA, K. Meech (University of Hawaii), and D. Jewitt (UCLA). – 2I/Borisov is like a time capsule from a part of the …
By Nick Lavars 2020 Apr 22 – The first comprehensive geological map of the Moon. – Drawing on data from satellites and Apollo-era missions, scientists at the US Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute have pieced together what they say is …
While the virus seems capable of infecting some pets and wild animals, these cases probably aren’t occurring often. Research suggests humans can occasionally pass the new coronavirus to cats. But felines are very unlikely to be a source of transmission back to humans. …
By Michael Irving – 2020 Apr 20 – An artist’s impression of a cometary collision around the star Fomalhaut, which is now proposed to be the explanation for a “disappearing exoplanet” ESA, NASA and M. Kornmesser. – Exoplanet discoveries are a dime a dozen …
By David Sharp Updated 2019 Dec 28 – City 40, or what is today known as Ozersk, is a closed city in Russia that the Soviet Union created during the Cold War. City 40 didn’t appear on any maps until 1991, allowed no outsiders to …
By Michael Irving 2020 Apr 15 – A Yale team has found a new type of cancer drug that can target solid tumors. vitanovski/Depositphot. – A new study has shown that an experimental class of cancer drugs has wider potential than previously thought. BET …
The SARS-CoV-2 virus endures for days on plastic or metal but disintegrates soon after landing on copper surfaces. Here’s why. Copper wire (Getty Images) By Jim Morrison, SmithsonianMag.Com – 2020 Apr 14 – When researchers reported last month that the novel coronavirus causing …
