While Delhi and other parts of the country choke under the pall of severe air pollution, many on the Internet seem to have found an easy target to release their exasperation - Priyanka Chopra. Many would remember the uproar Chopra caused earlier in the year when a photo of her...
At the end of last year, astronauts on board the International Space Station achieved something impressive — they grew radishes in the microgravity environment of space for the first time. Now, they get to enjoy the fruits of their labors, as they were allowed to eat some of the...
British Conservative politician Nadine Dorries has become the first member of Parliament to test positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus. Dorries, who is also a health minister, said she is now quarantined at home and her office has been closed. On Tuesday night, she tweeted her thanks for "so many good...
Among the more than 4,000 known exoplanets, KOI-456.04 is something special: less than twice the size of Earth, it orbits a Sun-like star. And it does so with a star-planet distance that could permit planetary surface temperatures conducive to life. The object was discovered by a team led by the...
Actress Anna Camp took to Instagram on Tuesday and, in a lengthy post, revealed her “very scary” battle with coronavirus. “The panic of contracting a virus that is basically untreatable and is so new that no one knows the long term irreparable damage it does to your immune system is...
Modern Mars is a barren world, drier than any desert on Earth. But geological evidence shows that this wasn’t always the case – in the distant past the Red Planet had flowing water. It’s long been thought that ancient Mars was warm and wet, but a new study has...
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)...
There's a big difference between having an Ebola infection and not having an Ebola infection. A few weeks after returning to Sweden from Burundi, a man has been making headlines around the world, but not in a good way. He showed up at an emergency room in Enköping, Sweden, about...
Alexi Laiho, the acclaimed guitarist and frontman for the Finnish metal outfit Children of Bodom, died at his home in Helsinki, Finland, last week, according to a statement from his management team. He was 41. A cause of death was not given. The statement said Laiho “had suffered from long-term...
T-shirt weather in Antarctica? The continent just measured its hottest temperature on record at a balmy nearly 65 degrees Fahrenheit. The reading was taken by Argentina's National Meteorological Service at the country's Esperanza research station, AFP reported. The thermometer climbed to 18.3 degrees Celsius (approximately 64.9 degrees Fahrenheit) around noon...