Monster swallows monster: Fossil reveals doubly fatal Triassic encounter By: Agencies on August 21, 2020In a warm shallow sea about 240 million years ago in what is now southwestern China, a large dolphin-like marine reptile attacked and swallowed an almost equally big lizard-like marine reptile in a savage encounter that left both beasts dead. Scientists on Thursday described a fossil unearthed in China’s Guizhou Province that reveals this Triassic […]
Stem cell treatment offers new hope for diabetics By: Agencies on August 21, 2020A new technique that grows insulin-producing cells and can protect them from immune attack after they are transplanted may offer new hope for treating some people with diabetes. In type-1 diabetes, the body turns on itself and attacks the so-called beta cells inside clusters in the pancreas called “islets”. These beta cells are responsible for […]
COVID-19 link to type 1 diabetes probed; breathalyzer screening shows promise By: Agencies on August 21, 2020The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. Study suggests possible coronavirus link to type 1 diabetes A small study in Britain suggests researchers should be on the look-out over whether […]
California’s heat wave and lightning storms rooted in same weather pattern By: Agencies on August 21, 2020The atmospheric pattern stoking California’s record-breaking heat wave this week has also played a role in causing extreme lightning storms that have sparked scores of wildfires, weather and fire officials said on Tuesday. The surge in lightning strikes – the most widespread burst of such storms in California since 2008 – has come with very […]
Study links COVID-19 to rise in childhood type 1 diabetes By: Agencies on August 21, 2020Cases of type 1 diabetes among children in a small UK study almost doubled during the peak of Britain’s COVID-19 epidemic, suggesting a possible link between the two diseases that needs more investigation, scientists said on Tuesday. While the study is based on only a handful of cases, it is the first to link COVID-19 […]
Nazi-looted French painting on display in search for rightful owner By: Agencies on August 21, 2020A 19th-century oil painting stolen from occupied France during World War II has gone on display in a bid to trace its rightful owners after being returned by the son of the German soldier who took it on orders from above. After 76 years in Germany, the small untitled artwork by French painter Nicolas Rousseau […]
Children may carry more Covid-19 in systems than previously thought — study By: Agencies on August 21, 2020Children may carry much coronavirus in their system than previously thought, a new study suggests. Infected children were shown to have a significantly higher level of virus in their airways than hospitalised adults in ICUs for Covid-19 treatment, researchers say. As schools plan to reopen, understanding the potential role children play in the spread of […]
Japan museum portrays pandemic life through everyday things By: Agencies on August 21, 2020Takeout menus. Directions for attending a funeral. A leaflet from a local shrine, announcing the cancellation of summer festivals. These humble, everyday artifacts of life in the pandemic have found a home in the Historical Museum of Urahoro, in Hokkaido, northern Japan, a town of just 4,500 residents that lacks a McDonald´s or movie theater. […]
The axe that killed Leon Trotsky now a museum exhibit By: Agencies on August 20, 2020The ice axe that was plunged into Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky’s skull during his gruesome murder in Mexico on August 20, 1940 is today among the prized exhibits at Washington’s International Spy Museum. It took Keith Melton, an espionage historian for the CIA, nearly four decades to find it — as well as to figure […]
Cleaner but not clean: Why scientists say natural gas won’t avert climate disaster By: Agencies on August 20, 2020Natural gas produces half as much carbon dioxide (C02) when burned than coal, but that doesn’t make it harmless. Climate scientists say that rising production of natural gas is emerging as one of the biggest drivers of climate change, and that plans for industry expansion could hobble efforts to stabilize the Earth’s climate. The US […]