The film allegedly shows the autopsy of an extraterrestrial that crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico. A picture is worth a thousand words, but is a single frame of 16-mm film worth $1 million? That’s the opening bid for a negative frame of black-and-white movie footage from 1947, allegedly showing anContinue Reading
In patients with type 1 diabetes, the body’s immune system attacks the beta cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. In a small, early study, a vaccine for type 1 diabetes helped preserve the body’s natural production of insulin, at least in a subset of newly diagnosed patients. In patientsContinue Reading
Hang in there, little guys! NASA is preparing to rocket around 5,000 tardigrades — those adorably pudgy “water bears —” and 128 glow-in-the-dark baby squid into space. The animals are heading to the International Space Station (ISS) next week as part of SpaceX’s 22nd cargo resupply mission. SpaceX is setContinue Reading
An increasingly virulent pathogen is turning hygienic cannibalism on its head. A virus that leaves bees with stubby, useless wings, bloated abdomens and sluggish brains before killing them off takes advantage of one of the pollinators’ nastier habits — a tendency to cannibalize their young, a new study found. TheContinue Reading
The influenza virus that caused the 1918 pandemic mutated into variants, much like the novel coronavirus has done in the current pandemic, century-old virus samples reveal. The discovery could help explain why later waves of the 1918 flu pandemic were worse than the first. And while the results aren’t directlyContinue Reading
A new comparison of measurements finds that some don’t add up. The global warming that has already taken place may be even worse than we thought. That’s the takeaway from a new study that finds satellite measurements have likely been underestimating the warming of the lower levels of the atmosphereContinue Reading
The walrus is now roughly 2,650 miles south of its usual habitat. The Arctic walrus that likely fell asleep on a drifting iceberg and woke up in Ireland, and then turned up weeks later in Tenby, Wales, has now appeared even farther south, in Cornwall, England. The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus),Continue Reading
Testosterone levels may be linked to severity of COVID-19 disease. Men with low testosterone levels may be more likely to have severe COVID-19, a small new study suggests. Previous analyses found that men tend to develop more severe COVID-19 compared with women, but it wasn’t clear why. On average, menContinue Reading
It looks like a mop tangled in seaweed. When a bizarre, white-polka-dotted blob the size of a person’s palm washed ashore in North Carolina last December, rangers at Cape Lookout National Seashore weren’t sure what to make of it. So the rangers turned to the public for identification help, postingContinue Reading
Babies can enter this world in one of two ways: vaginal birth or surgical delivery by cesarean section. Babies can enter this world in one of two ways: a vaginal birth or surgical delivery by cesarean section. The ultimate goal of both methods is to ensure that the baby andContinue Reading
