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A leading scientist says the world went mad over Covid

Mark Woolhouse is professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, SAGE adviser, and now author of ‘The Year the World Went Mad’, a personal, insider’s view of how the Covid pandemic played out. The book is a very useful review of what happened, even for …

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Chinese scientist pleads guilty over theft of US trade secrets

A Chinese national has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit economic espionage after he was accused of attempting to steal trade secrets from American agrochemical company Monsanto while residing in the US. Xiang Haitao, 44, “conspired to steal a trade secret” from the company “for the purpose of benefiting a …

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Top Russian scientist comments on whether Omicron variant is man-made

Omicron’s mutations are well within the realm of possibility for a natural variant of the virus, according to Alexander Gintsburg, the head of the Gamaleya Institute, which developed Russia’s pioneering Sputnik V vaccine. Speaking to Interfax on Monday, the scientist emphasized that this is especially true given that Omicron originated …

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Moon has enough oxygen for 8 billion people – scientist

In a piece penned this week in The Conversation, John Grant, a lecturer in soil science at Australia’s Southern Cross University explained that the Moon was heavy in minerals that bind tightly with oxygen.  Grant claims that, even if one ignores the oxygen tied up in deep, hard rock, the …

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