WHO unveils team of 10 scientists to trace Covid-19 origins in pandemic’s ground zero of Wuhan

WHO unveils team of 10 scientists to trace Covid-19 origins in pandemic’s ground zero of Wuhan – but warn it is a ‘riddle that can take years to solve’ The WHO has assembled an international team of world-leading virus hunters Included in line up is England’s former deputy chief medical officer John Watson UN agency warned … Read more

WHO unveils team of 10 scientists to trace Covid-19 origins in pandemic’s ground zero of Wuhan

WHO unveils team of 10 scientists to trace Covid-19 origins in pandemic’s ground zero of Wuhan – but warn it is a ‘riddle that can take years to solve’ The WHO has assembled an international team of world-leading virus hunters Included in line up is England’s former deputy chief medical officer John Watson UN agency warned … Read more

Complex life evolved on Earth 100 million years LATER than previously thought, scientists claim

Complex life evolved on Earth 100 million years LATER than previously thought, scientists claim – after discovering 635-million-year-old fossils were produced by algae, NOT animals Researchers recreated chemical traces found in ancient rocks in the laboratory Those rocks contained chemicals similar to those produced by modern sponges  Teams of scientists found they could recreate the … Read more

Prince William congratulates Oxford scientists via Zoom

Prince William has congratulated Oxford researchers during a Zoom call after their Covid-19 vaccine was found to be up to 90 per cent effective. The Duke of Cambridge hailed the team’s ‘amazing achievement’ this morning from Kensington Palace and said: ‘Well done, I’m so pleased for all of you, I really am. ‘I saw it … Read more

Box office films would fail UK junk food advertising rules, scientists say 

Disney, Marvel and James Bond films are among the box office successes featuring junk food that would fail UK advertising rules, scientists say.  US researchers looked at the 250 top-grossing films in the US between 1994 and 2018, which also included Harry Potter, Avatar, Toy Story and adult films such as Pulp Fiction and The … Read more

Champagne and oysters pair so well because of their ‘umami synergy’, scientists claim

They’re a match made in heaven and a mainstay of posh dinner parties and extravagant celebrations.  But the pairing of oysters and champagne actually has a basis in science, a new study claims – rather than just being a shallow display of wealth. Danish researchers say the two pair so well because they both have … Read more

Dog ‘geniuses’ Max and Squall stun scientists by learning the names of multiple different objects

Researchers in Hungary are testing the limits of canine ability – and they have found two new stars in border collies Max and Squall.  Every Wednesday, in a live-streamed online contest, two dogs from different countries are pitted against each other in the ‘Genius Dog Challenge’. The latest contestants, Max in Hungary and Squall in … Read more

Scientists claim to have reversed human AGEING at cellular level

Scientists ‘successfully REVERSE human ageing process’: Oxygen treatment altered elderly people’s bodies at a cellular level to how they were 25 years earlier, researchers claim Breathing pure oxygen may help to reverse the ageing process, scientists claim  Researchers used oxygen therapy to reverse two key indicators of ageing Scientists placed 35 healthy adults aged 64 … Read more

Scientists claim to have reversed human AGEING at cellular level

Scientists ‘successfully REVERSE human ageing process’: Oxygen treatment altered elderly people’s bodies at a cellular level to how they were 25 years earlier, researchers claim Breathing pure oxygen may help to reverse the ageing process, scientists claim  Researchers used oxygen therapy to reverse two key indicators of ageing Scientists placed 35 healthy adults aged 64 … Read more