Michael Lonsdale passed away Monday in his home in Paris at 89 years old. He was known for his roles in Moonraker and The Day of the Jackal. Successful British-French actor Michael Lonsdale passed away at 89 years old. Lonsdale was born on May 21, 1934 in Paris. He was...
Four exoplanets have been discovered around star TOI-1233 by two high schoolers, making them among the youngest people to have ever discovered a celestial body. Sixteen-year-old Kartik Pinglé and 18-year-old Jasmine Wright were participating in the Student Research Mentoring Program (SRMP) at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &...
Quebec’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign is being expanded to include people with chronic conditions as well as people with mental and physical disabilities and their caregivers, Health Minister Christian Dubé announced Thursday. It’s the last priority phase before the campaign moves to the general public, which will likely be at the...
People in Saskatchewan can expect a coronavirus vaccine distribution plan next week, according to Health Minister Paul Merriman. Merriman said his ministry and Saskatchewan Health Authority have been getting ready to deliver vaccines and a detailed presentation is forthcoming. “We do not yet have an exact timeline on when we will...
Some health experts are questioning Canada's decision to accept thousands of doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from a global vaccine-sharing alliance, only to have them sit in freezers in an Ontario warehouse. More than 655,000 doses of AstraZeneca, which most provinces have now decided against using first doses, arrived in...
Thank goodness for the Earth's crust: It is, after all, that solid, outermost layer of our planet that supports everything above it. But much of what happens below that layer remains a mystery, including the fate of sections of crust that vanish back into the Earth. Now, a team of...
Sientists have identified several existing compounds that block the replication of the Covid-19-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus within human cells grown in the laboratory, by targeting a key viral enzyme. University of South Florida Health (USF Health) Morsani College of Medicine scientists recently worked with colleagues at the University of Arizona (UA)...
A never-before-seen extraterrestrial mineral was lurking inside a meteorite found nearly 70 years ago. The meteorite is red and black and deeply scarred from its million-year-plus journey, and certainly looks the part. The mineral it contains has been christened edscottite. The mineral was found after close examination of the Wedderburn...
The synchronized brain waves of non-REM sleep may play a key role in preventing toxins from accumulating in a person's brain. Brain waves that occur during this period — when you're in your deepest resting state — seem to trigger a type of cleaning system. The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that...
University physical scientists synthesize new superconducting material, developing a process that may help ‘break down barriers and open the door to many potential applications.’ Compressing simple molecular solids with hydrogen at extremely high pressures, University of Rochester engineers and physicists have, for the first time, created material that is superconducting...