Category: Science

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — In a pair of Cape Town warehouses converted into a maze of airlocked sterile rooms, young scientists are assembling and calibrating the equipment needed to reverse engineer a coronavirus vaccine that has yet to reach South Africa and most of the world’s poorest people.The energy in the gleaming labs…

Two new species — the small skink Sciroseps pawhuskai and the pycnodontiform fish Anomoeodus caddoi — that lived during the Early Cretaceous epoch have been identified from fossils found in the Holly Creek Formation in southwest Arkansas. An illustration of Sciroseps pawhuskai. Image credit: Brian Engh. While Arkansas is not traditionally considered a fertile source…

Home » Medicine » VHA Study of 620,000 Shows COVID Vaccine Efficacy Decline There was a Veteran Health Administration Study of 620,000 people that showed the decline in COVID Vaccine effectiveness from February 1 to Mid August, 2021. Overall vaccine protection was down to 53.9% in August 13 from 92% in March. J&J vaccine protection…

Pfizer’s chief executive, Albert Bourla, made a bold promise in June. Standing next to US President Joe Biden at a press conference in St Ives, UK, just before the G7 summit meeting, Bourla said that should the need arise for a new COVID-19 vaccine, his company could get one ready within 100 days. The need…

Environment 24 October 2021 By Adam Vaughan Ed Miliband was the UK’s climate minister at the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009Guy Smallman/Getty Images Around 25,000 delegates will descend on Glasgow, UK, for COP26, a climate conference like no other. As a key player at one of the most important climate summits that preceded it, Ed…

By Sam Wong GMVozd/Getty ImagesSOUFFLÉS have a reputation for being perilous, but they aren’t nearly as challenging as many people will have you believe. In fact, as long as you have a mixture full of air bubbles, the laws of physics dictate that it must rise when it is heated. The relevant principle is described…

Environment | Comment 20 October 2021 By Katharine Hayhoe Michelle D’urbanoCLIMATE change is no longer a future issue or a distant one. It is here now, intensifying extreme weather events, threatening food and water supplies and putting our health at risk. Headlines bombard us with an increasing litany of disasters, from coastlines flooding and ice…

Environment | Comment 20 October 2021 By Graham Lawton Firn/AlamyI WILL be spending a lot of time in northern climes over the next few weeks, and I am preparing myself for a roller coaster of climate emotions. As I write, I am getting ready for a trip to Finland to report on some of the…

By Jacob Aron Getting out won’t be easy when everyone else wants to stay in the loopBethesda IN MY review of The Forgotten City a few months ago, I said that time loop stories are rare in video games. If I could go back in time, I would recant that. This year has seen a veritable…

Photo: Elliott Cowand Jr (Shutterstock)When it comes to dollar stores, there’s a lot to unpack—like their tendency to pop up in food deserts, and their impact on a local economy—but that’s not what we’re talking about today. Because regardless of how you view these discount chains, 80% of Americans shop at dollar stores at least…