The syphilitic bunnies at an Edmonton cemetery have been killed off by a very rare rabbit disease. Few, if any, are still alive. “It was a very viral virus that rapidly ran through the colony and killed essentially all the feral domestic rabbits,” Margo Pybus, a wildlife disease expert at the University of Alberta, said …
A uncommon rabbit sickness has wiped out Edmonton’s syphilitic graveyard rabbits. Read More »
The fossil is made up of the bones of a creature called Arthropleura, which lived 326 million years ago. This is more than 100 million years before the Age of Dinosaurs. It shows that Arthropleura was the biggest invertebrate animal ever found. It was bigger than the ancient sea scorpions that were the previous …
President Joe Biden will announce on Tuesday that the government has bought half a billion at-home rapid Covid-19 tests and plans to give them away for free to Americans who request them through a website. This is one of a number of new steps he’ll take as the country faces a potentially crippling surge …
In the beginning, two injections are given one month apart, and then every two months after that. Apretude or oral cabotegravir can be used to see how well patients can take the drug for four weeks. Participants who took Apretude started the study with cabotegravir and a placebo every day for up to five weeks. …
FDA Approves First HIV Pre-Exposure Injectable Treatment Read More »
The Artificial Plant Habitat is like a space terrarium that isn’t much bigger than a microwave. It has red and green peppers that jut out at 45-degree angles. The peppers whirl around their heads until the astronauts catch them and tape them to a piece of paper to take a picture of them. Astronauts …
Challenges of space farming: Growing peppers on the ISS Read More »
Some people thought that when generous unemployment benefits ran out, people would rush back to work. This isn’t true. There has been no rush to get back to work after Republican states cut the $300-a-week Federal benefit and other benefits that were paid by the federal government. Not nearly three-quarters of tech workers and …
Employees don’t want to go back to the office, give it up Read More »
Gel was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, which is the second most common type of blood cancer. It was 12 years ago that Gel was diagnosed. Multiple myeloma is a cancer that can’t be cured and is found in the bone marrow, which is where immature cells grow into new blood cells like red blood …
New cancer treatment breakthrough with experimental therapy in Spain Read More »
Carbon dioxide fills the air, and the surface is hot enough to melt lead. This makes Venus an uninhabitable place where life as we know it would not be able to thrive. As far as we know, no chemical process on Venus can make ammonia, which is a gas that was tentatively detected in …
Acid-neutralizing life forms and the potential for life in Venus’ clouds Read More »
