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Businesses continue to lay off and furlough workers.
We know that outbreaks like coronavirus will become more common in the future and tackling them is the Apollo programme of our time, according to Professor Marion Koopmans, head of the viroscience department at Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
China's number of coronavirus cases are suspiciously low. Now, a classified White House report sugests that the numbers have been doctored.
While the study focused on the UK, the results point to plankton woes on a global level.
The vaccine injects fragments of the viral spikes that the coronavirus uses to infect people.
Researchers find new species with plastic in its body.
It's a surprising correlation which might offer more insight into why some countries are less vulnerable to the disease.
Updates on the coronavirus situation in Australia.
While many inmates have been forced to self-isolate for years, what will happen when the coronavirus eventually reaches prisons?
Two antibiotics showed more effective results than the current treatment,
Luckily, our measures against COVID-19 works. Sadly, we need to bear through them a bit longer.
Political motivations should not overshadow a political crisis.
The icy continent of Antarctica wasn’t always the barren landscape that we all know today. As early as 90 million years ago, the continent may have been covered in a temperate rainforest, similar to what you’d find in today’s New Zealand, instead of an ice cap. The study was carried out by an international team […]
According to Prof. Bekeredjian-Ding, an approved mRNA coronavirus vaccine would be easier and faster to produce and thus deploy worldwide than a conventional vaccine.
The iconic birds are evolving shorter winds due to higher temperatures.
Cells in the olfactory tissue express genes like those in the respiratory tract, where the coronavirus is most active.
Enough to cover 83 football pitchers every day
A newly-discovered dinosaur species from New Mexico is one of the last raptors to have walked the Earth, researchers report -- and they were feathered.
If you know how to look, the ice can tell some amazing stories.
The coronavirus has all our attention now, but all the other problems in our society are still there.
It could be 12 months or even more, but we will have a vaccine.
It was recorded during the 2019-2020 Arctic summer.
Germany, like most other countries, is in dire need of qualified medical staff to fight COVID-19.
Many people are sharing false information that the new coronavirus is airborne. This is not true.
A new report from the Lancet finds a decrease in rates of death in COVID-19 cases but warns that even the most advanced medical care systems will be overwhelmed during the pandemic without urgent intervention.
A few dogs and cats have tested positive for COVID-19, but there is no evidence that they can transmit the virus to other animals or humans.
Urea could help build hardier, sturdier bases in space.
Thanks to global action on harmful chemicals.
The team is currently working on adapting it for use against the coronavirus.
It's not smooth sailing, and it's not even entirely clear if the numbers will indeed go down. But it's the first encouraging sign.
Things are pretty stressful on Earth right now -- so look at the sky!
After Rudy Giuliani, Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro becomes the latest high-ranking figure to have Tweets removed for misinformation.
Social distancing works. Stay at home!
EPA implements sweeping relaxation of environmental regulations
When humanity meets science.
While the findings are based on a relatively small sample, they do point to the need for a more thorough screening of potential COVID-19 patients.
We're not testing enough as it is, but we need to talk about a new test.
Will this be the right decision? Time will tell. But I do hope it is.
A recent report suggests that the international tourism economy stands to decline by 70% in 2020.
History will likely look back at the handling of the COVID-19 crisis by the UK Government as a tale of bumbling ministers, clerical errors, lame excuses, and a populace failed by a criminally undersupported National Health Service--and that's just the past week in a nutshell.
Rudy Giulani enters the ranks of internet trolls banned for spreading COVID-19 disinformation.
Patients still had the virus for up to eight days after the symptoms went away
It's not just Homo sapiens -- Neanderthals also had a deep relationship with the sea.
It's the biggest donation made by thus far by a tech giant.
As much of the world braces for what will be weeks or months of isolation, here are tip to help keep you healthy and sande.
"More severe infections may have even longer shedding times."
Finally, some good news for the environment!
After calling the coronavirus panic "dumb".
The agency has decided to increase restrictions after an employee tested positive for COVID-19 at its mission control in Darmstadt, Germany.
So far, SpaceX has been putting a lot of effort into insulating itself from the outbreak, but it seems to have caught it in the end.
