As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to claim lives around the world, there are no specific treatments for the disease beyond supportive care. Several drugs already prescribed for other illnesses have shown promise against the novel coronavirus in preclinical studies. And they are now being tested in clinical trials or given to patients on a compassionate-use […]
Even after death, COVID-19 could be contagious, a new report finds. A forensic practitioner working in Bangkok, Thailand, most likely caught the virus from a deceased patient, according to the report, which was posted online April 11 as a preprint for the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine. The forensic practitioner later died of the virus, marking […]
The Greenland ice sheet saw some of its highest melt rates on record last summer. Now, scientists say they know why it happened. It’s not only that temperatures were warm in the Arctic. An unusual set of atmospheric conditions, which altered the movement of air and the formation of clouds over Greenland, was a primary […]
The routines of tornado season are familiar ones across the Southeast: Residents keep weather radios close by, schools run tornado drills, and towns test sirens. But the deadly storms that swept through the region over Easter Sunday came amid a pandemic that has touched virtually every corner of the U.S., complicating disaster preparation and response. […]
In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals are relying on tests capable of delivering reliable results, minimizing transmission risk and reducing time to treatment in the patients who need it most. Doctors are laser-focused on obtaining and using these tests to identify and treat patients with coronavirus. Yet the emerging risk of co-infections is […]
Originally published in June 1899 Credit: Scientific American Advertisement “Dr. Edward C. Spitzka, of New York, the noted alienist, has recently given several really remarkable instances of the power of mental suggestion. ‘In the graver forms of hysteria,’ says Dr. Spitzka, ‘when loss of sensation occurs in exactly one-half the body, you can lay a […]
The universe is a stupendously vast and puzzling place. Millennia of scientific advances have incrementally increased our understanding of it, but every now and then, scientists still spy something shrouded in almost inexplicable mystery. Now such a puzzle has come in the form of filaments of electromagnetic radiation hundreds of thousands of light-years long—the likes […]
Numerous contenders—from a controversial malaria medication to treatments that regulate the immune system—are now in clinical trials — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Source link
We may be a big step closer to cracking one of the universe’s biggest and most fundamental mysteries. Scientists think that, when the universe was born nearly 14 billion years ago, it contained equal amounts of matter and its bizarro counterpart, antimatter. Antimatter particles have the same mass as their “normal” cousins but opposite electrical charges. […]
The mountains northwest of Oslo are some of Europe’s highest, and they are covered with snow throughout the year. Norwegians call them the Jotunheimen, meaning the home of the jötnar—the giants of Norse mythology. But years of warm weather have now melted much of that snow and ice, revealing a mountain pass that mere mortals […]