While previous studies suggested that the virus was passed to humans by pangolins, a Canadian team now claims that dogs were actually responsible for passing the virus to humans It’s one of the worst pandemics in history, and now scientists believe they may know how the coronavirus was spread to humans. TheContinue Reading
NASA’s new experimental supersonic X-plane is on a fast track to fly The plane, officially named X-59 QueSST in 2018 and often referred to as just X-59, was greenlit for final assembly during a critical design review in 2019. With this plane, NASA aims to create an ultraquiet craft that can travel over landContinue Reading
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has hit out at “groundless” criticism of its involvement in the UK’s rollout of 5G technology. In an open letter published on Monday, Victor Zhang, the firm’s UK chief, said disrupting Huawei’s participation would do the country a “disservice”. It comes amid efforts by rebel Tory MPs to overturn the government’s approval in January of aContinue Reading
There are some simple steps we can all take that will make a huge difference,’ says Caroline Abrahams at AGE As of 23 March, the government has said the public should be staying at home and leaving the house only for food, medicine, to travel to work as a key worker or toContinue Reading
Our planet is heading towards a global environmental catastrophe and we must stay motivated to make a difference no matter what the future holds, e are living in a unique moment in history. This isn’t like a war or an economic recession, where you know things will probably be badContinue Reading
‘One could say that this planet gets rainy in the evening, except it rains iron’ Researchers have found an extreme, distant planet where it is thought to rain iron. One side of the planet, it is permanently day, and the world is hit by temperatures of up to 2400 degreesContinue Reading
Apps could be key to giving citizens their freedom back, but should not be used as a way to constrain that liberty in other ways, activists warn Phone apps and other technology are proving to be a key way for countries to come out of coronavirus lockdown – but also pose privacy and civil rights threatsContinue Reading
It is quite surreal for us to see this whole situation unfolding on the planet below,’ NASA’s Jessica Meir says Astronauts currently residing aboard the International Space Station have braced for returning to Earth amid the coronavirus pandemic. When speaking to CBS News, astronaut Jessica Meir confessed she expects to feel more isolated upon returning to Earth during theContinue Reading
Contact tracing functionality to be built in as option in both iOS and Android phones in matter of months Apple and Google have announced a partnership to build a system for tracking the spread of the new coronavirus. Users will be able to opt into a system that tracks their location and proximity to others via Bluetooth technology. ThisContinue Reading
Devices ‘being designed and manufactured quickly by firms with little or no healthcare knowledge or manufacturing experience of medical devices’ The rush to create thousands of new ventilators for the NHS during the coronavirus outbreak could cost lives if staff make inadvertent mistakes due to different machine designs, experts haveContinue Reading