SpaceX and NASA are investigating a parachute problem that occurred in the last two capsule flights. One of the four main parachutes was inflated at a slow speed during the return of four astronauts to Earth last November. The same thing happened last week when the Dragon cargo capsule was ...
Read More »Newly discovered HIV variant exposes myth of “mild” viral evolution
Research led by the University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute has discovered a novel, highly virulent strain of HIV in the Netherlands. The new HIV variant results in a higher viral load and faster disease progression. The evolution of the variant, which originally emerged over two decades ago, demonstrates how ...
Read More »Scientists demonstrated a method to reuse used masks in efficient batteries
Study: As important as face masks are in our current pandemic-battling world, they have a huge impact on the environment. Now scientists have demonstrated a new method for disposing of old masks – using them to make low-cost, flexible, and efficient batteries. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is one of our ...
Read More »Pfizer seeks FDA approval to vaccinate children under 5
The US Food and Drug Administration approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 booster dose for children under the age of 12, last month. The FDA expects to approve the vaccine for young children by the end of February. Pfizer and BioNTech will soon ask US regulators for emergency authorization to provide the COVID-19 ...
Read More »Thermoelectric device wraps around hot pipes to generate electricity
We’ve already heard about hoses that get wrapped around existing hot water pipes, using heat radiated from the pipe to heat water inside the hose. A new wrap-around device, however, uses that same pipe heat to generate electricity. Created via a collaboration between Pennsylvania State University and the National Renewable Energy ...
Read More »Bridge collapse in Pittsburgh USA, 10 injured & 4 hospitalized
A bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania state on Friday, hours before US President Joe Biden’s visit. 10 people were injured in this accident and damage to the gas pipeline led to a gas leak in the area. The special thing is that Biden was about to hold a meeting about ...
Read More »Wuhan Scientists claim about NeoCov; 1 out of every 3 patients will die from this infection
After Omicron, now the new variant of Corona, Neokov, has raised the concern of the world. The scientists of Wuhan have made a big claim about this. They say that this variant has been found in South Africa. Both its infection and death rate are very high. It can kill one out of every ...
Read More »Researchers combine paleontology and fluid physics to uncover Ediacaran nurseries
Knowing how life worked on Earth 550 million years ago can give perspective on how life could evolve on other planets. And geobiologist and assistant professor of Earth and environmental sciences Simon Darroch and postdoctoral researcher Brandt Gibson are working to figure that out. “At the broadest scale, understanding how, ...
Read More »Oledcomm lights the way with Li-Fi-enabled Android tablet
After we wirelessly join a laptop computer to a house router or a smartphone to a streaming speaker, we accomplish that over radio waves. We had been first launched to wi-fi knowledge transmission utilizing gentle again in 2014, and now France’s Oledcomm is trying to deliver the expertise to residential customers ...
Read More »Apple sues Israeli company NSO, accuses it of spying
Tech company Apple has sued the Israeli company NSO, which makes Pegasus, Apple has said that the company is targeting more than one billion iPhones. Apple says that there are 1.65 billion active Apple devices worldwide, of which more than 1 billion are iPhones. There are already many cases going on ...
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