Madrid will become the first European capital to head back into lockdown following new coronavirus restrictions imposed by the Spanish government Some 4.8 million residents in the Spanish capital will be barred from leaving the area after the city suffered one of the highest infection rates of any region in Europe, with 850 cases per 100,000 … Read more
Most Americans with coronavirus are infected with a strain that came from Europe – but the strain that shut down Wuhan, China spread on the West Coast, recent research shows. Coronavirus likely came to the US first from Europe, circulating unseen among New Yorkers for weeks before the state’s first case was diagnosed, and even … Read more
Earth was once a ‘waterworld’ just like the one depicted by Hollywood in the Kevin Costner blockbuster, according to new research. A global ocean covered the planet 3.2 billion years ago, when the first primitive microbes were emerging. There would have been hardly any dry land – mirroring the way it looked in Waterworld, the … Read more