Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. More than 3,200 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and over 94,000 have been infected. Here’s what we know so far: What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of … Read more
A video shows an incredible bionic arm moving ‘like a human hand’ controlled by the patient’s thoughts. The modern prosthetic, designed by engineers, gives hope to amputees who have to rely on plastic moulds with barely any dexterity. Scientists created a so-called ‘nerve interface’ which picks up tiny electrical signals coming from the remaining nerves of … Read more
Apes’ inner ears could help scientists reconstruct the early branches of the human family tree and identify the last common ancestor from which we evolved Researchers compared the bony inner ear structures of 27 primate species These included humans and gorillas as well as extinct apes and Australopithecus They found that ear structure similarities indicate evolutionary relationships … Read more
Jessica Biel thanks ‘wonderful human’ Justin Timberlake for throwing her a pajama party for her 38th birthday… and her wedding ring is back on By Heather Waugh For Dailymail.com Published: 17:16 GMT, 3 March 2020 | Updated: 17:22 GMT, 3 March 2020 Jessica Biel’s wedding ring was back on her finger in new snaps she … Read more
The coronavirus could damage people’s kidneys and send their immune systems ‘haywire’ as well as infecting the lungs, according to scientists. More than 90,000 people have now been infected with the disease, which is known to cause serious lung damage and deadly pneumonia. It does this by attaching to and reproducing in tissue inside the … Read more
Human populations in India SURVIVED the Toba ‘super-eruption’ 74,000 years ago that plunged the Earth into a decade-long ‘volcanic winter’ and led to the near-extinction of our species Experts thought humans outside Africa may not have survived Toba event Humans are known to have migrated out of Africa into Eurasia before this time Researchers have … Read more
A massive breakthrough in the search for a cure for diabetes has been made by researchers who have successfully cured diabetes in mice for the first time using converted human cells to keep the disease at bay. The human stem cell strategy functionally cured the disease in mice for at least nine months and in … Read more
‘I hope it was at least his!’ Woman horrifies Facebook users with photos of her ‘beautiful’ promise ring that has a HUMAN TOOTH as the center stone – and came in a coffin-shaped box A Facebook user from Arizona posted photos of the woman wearing the creepy ring and the coffin-shaped box on the group … Read more
Drugmaker Moderna has shipped its first batch of a possible coronavirus vaccine for humans to government researchers for testing, just three months after the virus’s genome was sequenced. Shares of the biotech company soared early Tuesday, a day after the company said it sent vials to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for … Read more