An animal model of covid-19 is now available
Jun 11th 2020MICE ARE, as it were, the guinea pigs of science. And these days they are often genetically engineered guinea pigs,…
A plan to turn the atmosphere into one, enormous sensor
Jun 11th 2020WHEN AN EARTHQUAKE rocked Nepal in 2015, geophysicists were surprised to find that they could see its reflection…
Hydroxychloroquine is embroiled in yet more controversy
Jun 13th 2020ONCE PRAISED as a miracle cure for covid-19, an antimalarial drug called hydroxychloroquine has rarely been out of…
The nose, it seems, is protected by bacterial guards
Jun 13th 2020PEOPLE ARE familiar with the idea of probiotic bacteria, which, if consumed as part of someone’s diet, are supposed…
Have Siberian fires been smouldering underground all winter?
Jun 4th 2020SEEN FROM the sky, the northern stretches of Siberia in early May were a splodgy white, their thinning winter snow…
The Crew Dragon mission is a success for SpaceX and for NASA
Jun 4th 2020THE ECHOES were obvious. The first launch of an Apollo spacecraft with a crew took place in 1968, an election year…
The lost instruments of Teotihuacan will soon be heard again
Jun 6th 2020ONE AFTERNOON last December Arnd Adje Both, a researcher at Huddersfield University, in Britain, stood on top of the…
Flying people to the Space Station is SpaceX’s biggest deal yet
May 30th 2020IT WAS ONE of those neat bits of symmetry that history seems to enjoy. On May 30th, at 15.22 local time, Douglas…
Flying people to the Space Station will be SpaceX’s biggest deal yet
May 30th 2020IT WAS ONE of those neat bits of symmetry that history seems to enjoy. On May 30th, at 15.22 local time, Douglas…