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Lessons from teaching about the pandemic in real-time

May 26, 2021

As head of MIT’s Department of Biology, he was aware of the key role fundamental research would play in the coming months. From RNA viruses and genomic sequencing to antibodies...

You can live to 150? Scientists create app that shows human lifespan could nearly double

May 26, 2021

The instrument, called DOSI, uses artificial intelligence to work out body resilience, the ability to recover from injury or disease. If a person’s trends hold into old age, the app...

DTU-Vent Version 3.0 to Treat Covid-19

May 26, 2021

While the DTU-Vent version 1.0 only offered noninvasive ventilation, the versions 2.0 and 3.0 were designed to allow operation as an invasive ventilator to treat severe cases that need to...

DTU-Vent Version 2.0 for invasive ventilation, priced at less than 50 Million VND

May 26, 2021

DTU-Vent version 2.0, the “2-in-1” ventilatorAlthough the oxygen flow of the version 1.0 ventilator was only noninvasive, version 2.0 is designed to be used invasively, when severe cases need to...

Bitcoin traders using up to 100-to-1 leverage are driving the wild swings in cryptocurrencies

May 25, 2021

The price of cryptocurrencies tanked last week, with bitcoin losing roughly a third of its value in a matter of hours. Brian Kelly, CEO of BKCM, pointed to firms in...

Flint stone sounds suggest a Stone Age settlement in Copenhagen’s Svanemøllen Harbour

May 25, 2021

25 May 2021Flint stone sounds suggest a Stone Age settlement in Copenhagen’s Svanemøllen HarbourArcheology A new method has made it possible for University of Copenhagen researchers to register mysterious sounds...

Gone to the dogs

May 25, 2021

Image credit: Jonathon Turnbull/Chernobyl Guards A guard with the two dogs living at his checkpoint. Image credit: Jonathon Turnbull/Chernobyl GuardsThe dogs’ “wildness” and “territoriality” is discussed by the guards, too,...

Does correcting online falsehoods make matters worse?

May 24, 2021

So, you thought the problem of false information on social media could not be any worse? The study was centered around a Twitter field experiment in which a research team...

Bitcoin's trading action lately is wild even by crypto's standards and the drama is not over yet

May 24, 2021

The last time bitcoin saw a decline of this magnitude was March 2020 at the height of the Covid pandemic. So far this year, there have been 39 days with...

Bitcoin prices tumble 50% from peak and Mark Cuban calls the crypto crash the ‘great unwind’

May 24, 2021

Bitcoin prices on Sunday afternoon were in free fall anew, with the world’s No.1 crypto spiraling down more than 50% from a peak in around the middle of April, amid...