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NEW STUDY SHOWS MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES PREVENT COVID INFECTION
A study in US nursing homes has shown for the first time that monoclonal antibodies, mass-produced in a laboratory, can protect people...

By The Financial District
Jan 27, 20212 min read


ARCHAEOLOGISTS CONFIRM 16TH CENTURY CANNIBALISM IN MEXICO
In 1520, Indigenous people in Zultépec in what is now Mexico captured a Spanish caravan of about 450 people. Over the next eight months...

By The Financial District
Jan 27, 20212 min read


SINO SCIENTISTS DEVELOP GENE THERAPY TO DELAY AGING AMONG MICE
Scientists in Beijing have developed a new gene therapy which can reverse some of the effects of ageing in mice and extend their lifespans.

By The Financial District
Jan 21, 20212 min read


AI TAPPED TO PLAY CUPID IN LOVELORN JAPAN
Artificial intelligence has become an inescapable part of modern life, and the Japanese government is hoping it can help local...

By The Financial District
Jan 19, 20212 min read


EGYPT UNVEILS 3,000-YEARS-OLD COFFINS FOUND IN SAQQARA
Egypt has unveiled a significant new archaeological discovery at the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, including 54 wooden coffins, many...

By The Financial District
Jan 18, 20211 min read


CIA RELEASES ITS UFO FILES, BUT MAKES IT HARD FOR EXPERTS TO READ
Thousands of documents from the CIA on unidentified flying objects were released this week in a document dump that the agency says...

By The Financial District
Jan 16, 20211 min read


CHINESE COVID-19 VACCINE FAR LESS EFFECTIVE THAN CLAIMED IN BRAZIL
A leading Chinese COVID-19 vaccine developed by Sinovac Biotech was just 50.38% effective in late-stage trials in Brazil, significantly...

By The Financial District
Jan 14, 20212 min read


CORN RESIDUE LEFT AFTER HARVEST GOOD FOR WINTER GRAZING: U.S. STUDY
Corn residue left after harvest should be a great source of winter grazing.

By The Financial District
Jan 13, 20212 min read


SCIENTISTS AGOG OVER RADIO SIGNAL FROM NEARBY STAR PROXIMA CENTAURI
Nobody believes it was ET phoning, but radio astronomers admit they do not have an explanation yet for a beam of radio waves that...

By The Financial District
Jan 13, 20212 min read


WILDFIRES PRODUCED HALF OF POLLUTION IN U.S. WEST COAST
Wildfire smoke accounted for up to half of all health-damaging small particle air pollution in the western US in recent years as warming...

By The Financial District
Jan 13, 20212 min read


2 GORILLAS IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA ZOO INFECTED WITH COVID
The surge in COVID-19 cases in California has just gotten even worse, after at least two gorillas at the San Diego Zoo became infected...

By The Financial District
Jan 12, 20211 min read


DINOSAUR FOSSIL SAID TO BE NEW SPECIES
Research by Hokkaido University Museum and other bodies has found that a dinosaur fossil found in this town around 1990 is likely that...

By The Financial District
Jan 9, 20211 min read


SIMPLE COMPOUND COULD HAVE KNITTED DNA, RNA TOGETHER
Chemists at Scripps Research have demonstrated that a simple compound diamidophosphate (DAP}, which was present before life arose on...

By The Financial District
Jan 8, 20212 min read


COVID-19 VACCINES DON’T CAUSE FEMALE INFERTILITY: PFIZER
Pfizer has debunked the claim made by a former company researcher and his German pal that COVID-19 vaccines cause female infertility...

By The Financial District
Jan 6, 20212 min read


MILKY WAY FULL OF DEAD CIVILIZATIONS, SCIENTISTS THEORIZE
Most of the alien civilizations that ever dotted our galaxy have probably killed themselves off already...

By The Financial District
Jan 5, 20212 min read


WELL-PRESERVED ICE AGE WOOLLY RHINO FOUND IN SIBERIA
A well-preserved Ice Age woolly rhino with many of its internal organs still intact has been recovered from permafrost in Russia’s...

By The Financial District
Jan 4, 20211 min read


SAVANT FINDS NEW SPECIES OF MINI SNAKE IN KANSAS LAB
Scientists have discovered a new species of snake that had practically been hiding in plain sight all this while, right at the...

By The Financial District
Dec 31, 20201 min read


GERMAN PILOT MAKES POINT WITH SYRINGE IN THE SKY
German pilot Samy Kramer has traced a giant syringe in the sky, flying 200 kilometers to remind people about the start of the COVID-19...

By The Financial District
Dec 29, 20201 min read


ARCHAEOLOGISTS DIG UP STREET FOOD SHOP IN POMPEII
Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, have made the extraordinary find of a frescoed hot food and...

By The Financial District
Dec 28, 20202 min read


JAPAN SEEKS CARBON NEUTRALITY
The government pledged to promote electric vehicles and offshore wind power generation as part of Japan's efforts to achieve carbon...

By The Financial District
Dec 26, 20202 min read


GALAXY’S SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE CLOSER TO EARTH THAN THOUGHT
The supermassive black hole hiding in the center of our galaxy is much closer to Earth, about 2,000 light-years closer, than scientists...

By The Financial District
Dec 26, 20202 min read


MOTHER NATURE DELIVERS CHRISTMAS SEASON ARCTIC BLAST
The next major winter weathermaker took shape just in time for Christmas, threatening to snarl travel and bring bitterly cold air.

By The Financial District
Dec 26, 20201 min read


NANOPARTICLES IN PFIZER’S COVID VACCINE TRIGGER ALLERGIC REACTIONS
Severe allergy-like reactions in at least eight people who received the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech over the past 2...

By The Financial District
Dec 24, 20202 min read


JUPITER-VENUS CONJUNCTION COULD BE ‘STAR OF BETHLEHEM’
Was the "Star of Bethlehem" that led the magi to the infant Jesus in the Bible the same as the Christmas Star visible last Monday (Dec. 21)?

By The Financial District
Dec 23, 20203 min read
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