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How are we human beings going to be able to kick the butts of Covid creatures infinitesimally smaller than we are? Or are we going to be like Goliath, who fell to the Lilliputian David? It all depends upon whether we embrace science, or continue to denigrate it. The powers …

When US Vice President Kamala Harris’ flight from Singapore to Hanoi was delayed last month due to the sickness of two American officials in the Vietnamese capital, the phrase ‘Havana Syndrome’ once again entered the headlines. Named after it was first noticed in Havana in 2016, the term refers to …

The launch, which took place at Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday afternoon, fired a Proton-M rocket into the sky, carrying the laboratory. Less than ten minutes after takeoff, Proton-M detached from the module, putting it into orbit. It is due to be docked to the Russian section of the ISS on …

The government has been busy briefing friendly journalists that the proposed lifting of restrictions will be delayed for a further month. The government claim that they are concerned about the increase in cases of the Indian – or Delta – variant, which is on the rise across the country. Yesterday, it …

The US decision to task its intelligence services with digging into the origins of coronavirus shows that the country is fixated more on blaming China rather than establishing the truth, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a regular press briefing in Beijing on Friday. “This only suggests that the …

Scientific racism didn’t die off with the fall of Nazism. It’s alive and well in the offices of Nature, a 150-year-old British scientific journal, and the most-cited publication on Google Scholar. The editors at Nature are seeking an intern, but explicitly stated in their advert that only pure-blooded Caucasians may …

A new paper by researchers at Edinburgh University suggests that lockdowns do not help to reduce the death toll from Covid-19, but may simply postpone those deaths. It’s another piece of evidence that suggests that a different strategy to combat the pandemic – one that doesn’t impose blanket restrictions across …

Vallance, who also chairs the government’s expert advisory panel on vaccines, appears to have retained over 43,000 shares in GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) – a UK-based multinational pharmaceutical company – worth £600,000, The Telegraph reported. The shareholding appears to be the legacy of his previous job as the head of research and …

This morning at 7:03 MSK by the carrier rocket “Atlas 5” from the Space center. Kennedy in Florida was launched, a European research spacecraft Solar Orbiter, designed to study the Sun. At 7:55 he has successfully separated from the upper stage “Centaurus” and a few minutes later made contact with …

PhD, editor and mother of Anna Kuleshova at some point have had enough of plagiarism in scientific articles, which she edited. And she spoke to the scientific community, describing the arbitrariness in this sphere and wrong management decisions that entail the emergence of a large number of “junk” articles. The …