SCIENCE

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reported three space objects. An asteroid the size of a school stadium is flying toward Earth, along with two more “friends”. According to the data posted on the official NASA website, all three asteroids are classified as “potentially dangerous”. The largest of them is the size of a school stadium. Its diameter is ...

India has become the first country to successfully isolate and isolate a “British” strain of the coronavirus, RIA Novosti reported, citing the country’s Medical Research Council. “The British variant of the virus with all significant changes has now been successfully isolated and cultured at the National Institute of Virology from clinical specimens collected from those returning from Great Britain. No ...

Complex vitamins are chosen primarily on the basis of the category to which you belong. The main thing is to decide for yourself for what purpose you are going to buy the drug. In addition, you need to pay attention to the symptoms that signal a lack of vitamins. These symptoms include digestive disorders, reduced attention span, increased fatigue, visual ...

On New Year’s Eve, paleontologists told of a prehistoric flower, about a hundred million years old, found in Burmese amber. It was so well-preserved that experts were even able to see the fine veins on its petals. Also in 2020, the fossil resin found the head of the smallest dinosaur in history – though he turned out to be a ...

Scientists working for Unilever investigated the effects of “blue light” on the skin emitted by electronic devices. The results show that harmful rays can lead to premature aging and a number of skin problems. They also found that five days of exposure to blue light for six hours a day can have the same effect on the skin as 25 ...

Some are in trials, others are awaiting approval from authorities As the U.S. vaccination campaign unfolds with COVID-19 vaccines approved for emergency use, another possible vaccine is in clinical trials. Vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are distributed under strict rules, and the emergence of additional options is important to accumulate enough doses nationally and globally. Novavax is recruiting 30,000 ...

Coronavirus mutations will continue, the World Health Organization (WHO) will keep a close eye on new variants, said Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the technical group of the WHO’s emergency disease unit. “Coronavirus. mutations will continue; mutation is a natural process. The virus itself is not particularly affected, but we need to continue to study these variants, including in terms ...

Scientists have found that of all alcoholic beverages, the strongest hangover is caused by whiskey. This was reported on December 26 by the publication Medikforum. Thus, the experts report that the body’s reaction is affected by the intensity of the drink’s color: colorless alcohol is more easily tolerated. One of the factors affecting the deterioration of the human condition called ...

Flight planned for 2023 Canada will send an astronaut to lunar orbit for the first time as part of a U.S. mission planned for 2023, Innovation Minister Navdeep Baines said, announcing a formal agreement with Washington. Earlier this month, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence announced the lineup of an 18-member team that could go to the moon as part of ...

Japanese scientists compared predictions of the situation with the COVID-19 traditional statistical model and Google’s model using artificial intelligence. It turned out that the accuracy of the traditional “manual” model is much higher. The results of the study are published on the medRxiv preprints website. Google (Alphabet Inc.) has been using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the COVID-19 epidemic in ...