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Martinus Veltman, Who Made Key Contribution in Physics, Dies at 89
Martinus JG Veltman, a Dutch theoretical physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for work explaining the structure of some fundamental forces in the universe and forming the basis for the development of the Standard Model, the backbone of…
Why Medical Tourism Is Drawing Sufferers, Even in a Pandemic
"Our market has always been what I call the 'working poor' and they are getting poorer," said Josef Woodman, CEO of Patients Without Frontiers. "The pandemic has wiped out low-income and middle-class people around the world, and for many…
Companies Goal to Pull Greenhouse Gases From the Air. It’s a Gamble.
"It's a chicken-or-egg problem," said Nan Ransohoff, head of climate at Stripe, a San Francisco-based online payments company. “The best way to reduce costs is to use these technologies on a large scale. But until there are actually…
Egypt Denied an Oxygen Failure Killed Covid Sufferers. We Discovered That It Did.
EL HUSSEINEYA, Egypt - A scream pierced the night from the balcony of an Egyptian hospital. A nurse yelled that patients in the intensive care unit in Covid were gasping for air.Ahmed Nafei, who was standing outside, passed a security…
Twins with Covid Assist Scientists Untangle the Illness’s Genetic Roots
What Ms. Burkett and Ms. Miller experienced was not the norm. Many of the conditions that can increase a person's risk for severe Covid - obesity, heart disease, diabetes, smoking - are heavily influenced by the environment and behavior,…
The Actual Dire Wolf Ran Into an Evolutionary Lifeless Finish
Long genetic isolation matters in another way.Larisa DeSantis, a paleontologist at Vanderbilt University who was not involved in the research, said this was in line with the idea of North American ancestry for terrible wolves.They were…
New Bat Species With Orangutan Hue Found in West Africa
In 2018, scientists embarked on an expedition to study the habitat of an endangered bat species in Guinea, West Africa. One night something unusual emerged in a trap: a new species of bat with a fiery orange body juxtaposed with striking…
Pig Portray Might Be World’s Oldest Cave Artwork But, Archaeologists Say
In a hidden valley on an Indonesian island is a cave adorned with perhaps the oldest figurative art ever seen by modern eyes.The vivid depiction of a wild boar, outlined and filled with mulberry pigment, goes back at least 45,500 years,…
Electrical Eels Hunt in Packs, Surprising Prey and Scientists
In August 2012, Douglas Bastos, then a PhD student at the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, was exploring a remote waterway in the Amazon rainforest when he came across a small lake full of electric eels.Electric eels,…
NASA’s SLS Rocket to the Moon Faces Setback After Take a look at
After billions of dollars and a decade of work, NASA's plans to send astronauts back to the moon had another setback on Saturday. A planned eight-minute test shot of the four engines of a new mega-missile, which was needed for the lunar…