With new COVID-19 cases continuing to occur, scientists are paying more attention to a variety of short and long-term health effects of the virus. As of now, there are around 30 mutations of the latest variant of COVID-19, and more research is needed to understand the effects of each form. Long COVID-19 has been a […]
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As the primary malaria vector of sub-Saharan Africa, the Anopheles gambiae mosquito is the deadliest animal in the world. In 2022, there were an estimated 249 million malaria cases worldwide. Global malaria cases have increased annually since 2015, with countries in Africa facing the majority of case increases. Recent progress has stalled, and many are
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Do you remember the blood-red skies over Australia in the wake of the 2019-2020 new year fires? The raging wildfires produced post-apocalyptic, Mad Max-esque skylines and looming columns of smoke, dubbing this period the “Black Summer.” These bushfires caused the formation of pyrocumulonimbus clouds (pyroCbs), coined “fire clouds.” This is a fire-atmosphere phenomenon caused by
Wildfire-spawned thunderclouds: How fire-induced clouds are creating their own weather Read More »
A hundred years ago, the idea of having standard operating procedures for transplanting someone’s blood, let alone someone else’s organs, seemed like something society would have achieved by the time there were flying cars. However, modern science and lab studies are moving fast and furiously, and one of the most surprising evidence of their progression
How far has modern science progressed? The world’s first whole-eye transplant Read More »
Picture this: you are about to enter your freshman year of college. Before you are enrolled, you must strip down to nothing so a faculty member can snap a nude photo of you to check your “posture.” Would you still want to enroll? College posture tests were commonplace in the early 20th century, beginning in
Time to make slouching stylish: A retrospective analysis of postural myths Read More »
“RED ALERT! As was promised – the keys to Heaven’s Gate are here again in Ti and Do (The UFO Two) as they were in Jesus and His Father 2000 yrs. Ago,” boldly exclaims the website of Heaven’s Gate, a Christian group specializing in ufology and millenarianism. Ufology is the study of unidentified flying objects
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“No, Mya. I’m not going to the doctor. I don’t need to. I’m fine,” my mother insisted, mitigating my concerns through her inflamed vocal cords. I watched as she grimaced in pain, trying to breathe through what seemed to be one nostril, her voice taking the comical nasal tone of a kazoo. As I began
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It was dinner time on January 24, 2023, and Patrick Clancy had just left his home in Duxbury, MA to pick up some food for his wife and kids. In his 20-minute absence, his wife, Lindsay Clancy, strangled and killed each of their three children with exercise bands before cutting herself with a knife and
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Many people have likely heard that humans are 98% related to chimps, but would you guess that we also share 50 to 60% of our genes with bananas? This surprising overlap is the result of billions of years of evolution from an ancient common ancestor. While humans and bananas have acquired different structures and functions,
Are bananas our long-lost cousins? The secrets genomes hold Read More »