The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China said he was allowed back into his lab after he spent days locked outside, sitting in protest. Zhang Yongzhen wrote in an online post on Wednesday, just past midnight,
The first scientist to publish the COVID-19 virus sequence in China staged a sit-in protest outside his lab after being locked out by authorities. Zhang Yongzhen and his team were reportedly notified of eviction from their lab. The Shanghai Public Health Clinical
This weekend, Christians all over the world are getting ready for Easter. They remember the Bible story of how Jesus came back to life after being crucified. The religious text claims this happened three days after he was buried, but many still
A US scientist has left Brits outraged after saying the perfect cup of tea requires one weird ingredient. Michelle Francl, a professor of chemistry at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, analysed hundreds of research papers and pored over historic texts to create
One of the UK’s top young scientists has tragically died from a rare form of heart cancer originally diagnosed as a pulled muscle. Kirsty Smitten, 29, was a “world leading” scientist set to potentially save tens of millions of lives with her
Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, a key architect in reducing India’s widespread hunger in the late 1960s and 1970s, has died at 98 years old after suffering from an age-related illness. Swaminathan, decorated with one of India’s highest honors in 1967, helped turn the
Ian Wilmut, the cloning pioneer whose work was critical to the creation of Dolly the Sheep in 1996, has died at age 79. The University of Edinburgh in Scotland said Wilmut died Sunday after a long illness with Parkinson’s disease. Wilmut set
Contrary to popular belief, interstellar space – quite literally, the space between the stars – isn’t just empty space. It’s packed full of hydrogen and helium, and, according to an increasing number of scientists, advanced alien civilizations. One of those scientists is
A Russian scientist who worked on Putin’s failed moon mission has been suddenly rushed to the hospital. Mikhail Marov, a top astronomer, has suffered a “sharp deterioration” in his health after the Luna-25 probe smashed into the lunar surface – meaning decades
Known as the Nibiru cataclysm, it is a doomsday scenario in which a large mysterious planet comes crashing into the Earth. It was first proposed in 1995 to happen at some point in the early 21st century. As we get well into