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Proxima Centauri d is relatively close to the Earth and is “within reach of further study and future exploration” A team of astronomers has discovered a new small planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, research published on Thursday in ‘Astronomy and Astrophysics’ reveals. The candidate planet, named Proxima Centauri d, has […]
Deer in US have caught highly transmissible Covid variant White-tailed deer on New York’s Staten Island have become the first known wild animals infected with the Omicron Covid variant, which has already caused a huge wave of infections in humans throughout the world. The news was revealed in a new study conducted by scientists from […]
Astronomers say the black hole is invisible, so they had to study its effects on light traveling through surrounding space Astronomers from the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland have published a study, claiming to have identified a wandering black hole in the Milky Way galaxy for the first time. Kailash Sahu, who led […]
The new variant is said to be more transmissible and dangerous A new highly transmissible and dangerous HIV variant has been discovered in the Netherlands, confirming scientists’ worst expectations. An international collaborative study, led by researchers from the University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute, identified 109 cases of the new ‘virulent subtype B’ (VB) variant […]
Wisconsin man killed and dismembered his parents after they discovered a ‘web of lies’ about his job A Wisconsin man accused of spinning an “amazing web of lies,” including a job offer from Elon Musk’s aerospace firm, has been found guilty of all charges by a jury and now faces a life sentence. The verdict […]
If confirmed, this would be the first ever celestial object of the kind to be discovered Astronomers have identified signals emitted by what they believe could be the first moon to be discovered outside the solar system. The findings are tentative, with the celestial body being too distant to observe it directly. Details of the […]
70 wandering ‘rogue’ planets the size of Jupiter in Milky Way are largest group ever discovered Astronomers have found dozens of ‘rogue’ exoplanets roaming the Milky Way without a parent star to hold them in orbit. At least 70 such cosmic nomads have been confirmed, but the number could be as high as 170, a […]
Scientists have discovered the first ever “true” millipede with more than 1,000 legs 60 meters underground in a mining area in Western Australia, setting the record for the creature with the most legs known to humans. Announcing the discovery in the peer-reviewed Scientific Reports journal, the team of researchers revealed the record-setting new species had […]
A British-American team of scientists claims to have found the “trigger” behind clot formation in certain patients immunized with the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. The researchers discovered that the protein implicated in thrombosis “is capable of forming stable complexes with clinically relevant adenoviruses.” The immune system can confuse blood protein (platelet factor 4) with the virus […]
People infected with the new Omicron strain of Covid-19 present “unusual symptoms” that are somewhat different from those associated with the Delta variant, a South African doctor who was one of the first to spot it has said. Covid patients infected with the new strain started appearing around November 18, Dr. Angelique Coetzee, chair of […]
Researchers have discovered a type of gut bacteria that improves the memory and cognitive function of bumblebees, and believe the findings could be applicable to humans too. The international team – from China, the UK, and Finland – was conducting research into how the gut-brain relationship can enhance memory when the bacterial species Lactobacillus apis […]
A previously unknown virus capable of infecting humans has been discovered by scientists in Japan. Called the Yezo virus, it is related to pathogens causing Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and Nairobi sheep disease. The first reported case involving the new virus was recorded in Japan in 2019. At that time, a 41-year-old man was admitted to […]
Congolese professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the virologist who first discovered Ebola more than 40 years ago, has declared that it has been defeated, marking the end of a decades-long battle against the “deadly disease.” The 79-year-old scientist made the announcement on Thursday during an event to mark the arrival of the Ebola ‘Ebanga’ treatment in the […]