According to the New York Times, researchers in Japan and the United States conducted a series of experiments on hamsters and rats with strains of coronavirus and found the reason why the newest omicron strain has an extremely low …
The coronavirus that causes Covid-19 can spread within days from the airways to the heart, brain and almost every organ system in the body, where it may persist for months, a study found. In what they describe as the most comprehensive …
Adult COVID-19 patients with sleep-disordered breathing and related low oxygen levels had a higher risk of hospitalization and death, finds a study in JAMA Network Open. A team led by Cleveland Clinic researchers conducted a …
Moderna Inc said it is developing a single vaccine that combines a booster dose against COVID-19 with its experimental flu shot. The company hopes to eventually add vaccines it is working on for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and …
The European Union's drugs regulator said it was awaiting more data on Russia's Sputnik V and a rival COVID-19 vaccine by China's Sinovac Biotech before it can progress on its rolling reviews of the two shots. "For …
A full moon is on average 14,000 times brighter than the next brightest night-sky object, Venus
People suffered from epidemics caused by the coronavirus tens of thousands of years ago, an international team of scientists came to conclusion, the Queensland University of Technology (QUT, Australia) writes in the journal Current Biology. …
More scientists have grown comfortable discussing publicly: There's no clear evidence either way.
An explosive new study claims that Chinese scientists created COVID-19 in a Wuhan lab, then tried to cover their tracks by reverse-engineering versions of the virus to make it look like it evolved naturally from bats, …
Cyprus scientists from the Nicosia University Medical School conducted a large-scale study to identify the main factors influencing the spread of the new coronavirus, the Cyprus Mail informs. With the help of a computer model that takes …
A team of Boston University researchers—hailing from BU's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) at BU's Medical Campus, and BU's Center for Network Systems …
China plans to share data and samples that the Chang’e 5 probe obtained during its recent mission to the moon, based on international cooperation conventions, deputy head of the country’s space agency Wu Yanhua said on …
According to the latests findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study, the results of which were published in The Lancet medicine journal, the lowest healthy life expectancy in Europe was recorded in Russia. The study relies on the …
People infected with both flu and coronavirus have a sixfold increased risk of death compared with the general population, new research has found, The Week informs. And patients battling both viruses at the same time are twice as likely …
CU Boulder researchers have developed a rapid, portable, saliva-based COVID-19 test able to return results in 45 minutes. Such a test might eventually be deployable in community settings like schools and factories, Medical Express informs. …
In the Zhambyl region of Kazakhstan, the construction of a vaccine production plant began. Among other drugs, vaccines against coronavirus will be produced at the plant. "Prime Minister Askar Mamin launched the construction of a …
New research is challenging the image of a “dry” Moon. Many astronomers believe our lone satellite is devoid of volatile elements such as carbon, which would have burned off in the superheated collision between Earth and a …
The space-rocket complex for launching promising medium and light heavy carrier rockets Soyuz-6 and Soyuz-5 from Baikonur will be named in honor of the first president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Roskosmos reports. The …
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is leaving politics, said today that she was thinking about returning to science after her resignation from the post of the head of the German state. “All universities that awarded me an …
The closing ceremony of the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) was held in Baku today. Russia ranks first in the team competition: four gold medals were won by Russians. The correspondent of Vestnik Kavkaza talked with the participants …
