Scientists are developing a simple screening process in which a routine eye test could help predict a person’s heart attack risk, an advance that could lead to new personal health tools. The yet-to-be peer-reviewed research, scheduled to be presented at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics on Monday, predicts heart ... Read More »
UFO sightings are so common around US military facilities that a database of encounters has grown to about 400 incidents, up from 143 announced almost a year ago. That’s what US military intelligence officials told lawmakers at the first Congressional hearing on UFOs in more than 50 years. “Since the early 2000s, we have seen ... Read More »
For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by Nasa’s Apollo astronauts. Researchers had no idea if anything would sprout in the harsh moon dirt and wanted to see if it could be used to grow food by a new generation of lunar explorers. The ... Read More »
A “vaccine ceiling” may be approaching for some people who have already received three doses, according to new research, suggesting it may not be necessary to keep getting jabbed against Covid-19 on a rolling basis. Health officials are currently assessing whether to broaden out the UK’s current booster programme beyond over-75s, care home ... Read More »
A new sub-variant of Omicron has been found in UK as the country battles a renewed surge of the coronavirus. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that 4.9 million people in the UK were infected with Covid-19 as of last weekend – a record high during the pandemic. The surge is ... Read More »
Almost three times as many people have died as a result of COVID-19 as the official data show, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report, the most comprehensive look at the true global toll of the pandemic so far. There were 14.9 million excess deaths associated with COVID-19 ... Read More »
The discovery of ice ridges in Greenland similar to those found on Europa suggest water from the Jovian moon’s subsurface ocean could lurk near the surface. In the late 1970s, Nasa’s two Voyager spacecraft flew by Jupiter’s moon Europa and found strong evidence that a global liquid water ocean lurks beneath the moon’s icy shell. ... Read More »
Researchers have rejuvenated a 53-year-old woman’s skin cells so they are the equivalent of a 23-year-old’s. The scientists in Cambridge believe that they can do the same thing with other tissues in the body. The eventual aim is to develop treatments for age-related diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and ... Read More »
Two new studies are reporting on an ongoing long COVID research project investigating the persistent effects of COVID-19 on cognition in the months after acute disease. The University of Cambridge-led research found many long COVID patients are experiencing significant and measurable memory or concentration impairments even after mild illness. “Long ... Read More »
A newly-discovered Covid variant that combines mutations from both Omicron and Delta is “the real thing,” scientists have said. Earlier in the year, concern was raised after a lab in Cyprus claimed to have found evidence of a Delta-Omicron recombination event – when the two variants co-infect a patient and exchange genetic material to produce a new viral ... Read More »
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