Mar 21st, 2023 - How does the world look like at the smallest scales? This is a question scientists are trying to answer in particle collider experiments like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. To compare the results of these experiments, theoretical physicists need to provide more and more precise predictions based on our current model for the interactions of fundamental particles, the so called standard model. A key ingredient in these predictions are so called Feynman integrals. Recently, a team of the PRISMA + Cluster of Excellence at Mainz University, consisting of Dr. Sebastian ... [Read More]

Mar 21st, 2023 - The director of the National Reference Centre for Invasive Fungus Infections, Oliver Kurzai, holding in his hands a petri dish that has the yeast Candida auris in a Wuerzburg University laboratory in Wuerzburg, Germany on Jan. 23, 2018. There has been a recent rise of cases of seriously ill patients becoming infected with C. auris. A deadly fungus that is resistant to most drugs is spreading at "an alarming rate" in health care facilities across the county, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week. Candida auris, or C. auris, is an emerging fungus that is considered an ... [Read More]

Mar 21st, 2023 - The Hayabusa2 spacecraft spent a year and a half gathering rock samples from the asteroid Ryugu. Organic compounds essential for life have been discovered in samples collected from a distant asteroid by Japan's Hayabusa2 Spacecraft . The compounds discovered include niacin, which is also known as vitamin B3, and uracil - one of the four nucleobases (nitrogen-containing compounds), that make up RNA , the molecules that contain the instructions of how to build living organisms. "Scientists have previously found nucleobases and vitamins in certain carbon-rich meteorites, but there was always ... [Read More]

Mar 21st, 2023 - Scientists said the coronavirus data included new sequences of the virus and additional genomic data based on samples taken from a live animal market in Wuhan in 2020. Data from the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic has provided crucial information on the outbreak's origins, according to researchers. The virus was first identified in Wuhan in December 2019, with the Huanan live animal market widely suspected to be the source, before it rapidly spread around the world and killed nearly seven million people. This week, scientists published a pre-print report based on their interpretation ... [Read More]

Mar 21st, 2023 - The scrolls were discovered in 1752, but fire damage made them too fragile to unroll. Thanks to artificial intelligence, scientists are finally able to read a cache of scrolls incinerated during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79—but to decipher the entirety of the manuscripts, a team led by University of Kentucky computer scientist Brent Seales is offering $250,000 to anyone who can help complete the arduous task. Seales is the lead researcher on a project that has developed an A.I. system powered by a machine-learning algorithm trained to identify ink on the charred ... [Read More]

Mar 21st, 2023 - The  Coronavirus Resource Center  is continuously updated source where you can find the latest news on COVID-19. Data on vaccination comes from the  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . Here's the latest data, updated on March 21: Positive tests: 103,801,821 Patient deaths: 1,121,512 Total vaccine doses distributed: 969,633,645 Total vaccine administered: 673,012,265 Patients who've received the first dose: 269,743,532 Patients who've received the second dose: 230,211,943 % of population fully vaccinated (both doses, not including boosters): 69.3% % of population with ... [Read More]

Mar 21st, 2023 - Astronomers on Monday warned that the light pollution created by the soaring number of satellites orbiting Earth poses an "unprecedented global threat to nature." The number of satellites in low Earth orbit have more than doubled since 2019, when US company SpaceX launched the first "mega-constellation," which comprise thousands of satellites. An armada of new internet constellations are planned to launch soon, adding thousands more satellites to the already congested area fewer than 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles) above Earth. Each new satellite increases the risk that it will smash into ... [Read More]

Mar 21st, 2023 - Antibodies used to detect the virus can weaken over time, so results may not be reliable You've got a fever, a cough and feel exhausted — symptoms that are common with COVID-19 . You'd like to take an at-home test, but when you go to grab one from your medicine cabinet, you realize it's expired. Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit academic medical center. Advertising on our site helps support our mission. We do not endorse non-Cleveland Clinic products or services. Policy What should you do? Is it OK to still use an expired COVID-19 test? Are expired COVID-19 tests accurate? ... [Read More]