Medicine Antibodies to Common Cold Coronaviruses Do Not Protect Against SARS-CoV-2 (Medicine) 13 Feb 2021 Antibodies that react to both ordinary coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2 are common in the population but don’t neutralize the COVID-19-causing virus Past exposure to seasonal coronaviruses (CoVs), which cause the common…
Neuroscience The Scarred Villain: Study Explores Neurocognitive Basis of Bias Against People Who Look Different (Neuroscience) 13 Feb 2021 Brain Responses and Attitudes Reflect the “Anomalous is Bad” Stereotype, Penn Medicine Research Shows The “scarred villain” is one of the oldest tropes in film and literature, from Scar in…
Medicine Unlocking the Mystery Behind Skeletal Aging (Medicine) 13 Feb 202113 Feb 2021 By identifying the underlying factors leading to bone loss and osteoporosis, UCLA dentist-scientists hope to pave the way to new treatments Researchers from the UCLA School of Dentistry have identified the role…
Astronomy Indian Astronomers Detect Huge Optical Flare In One Of The Oldest Astronomic Objects (Astronomy) 13 Feb 2021 Indian Astronomers have reported one of the strongest flares from a feeding supermassive black hole or blazar called BL Lacertae. Analysis of the flare from this blazar, one of the…
Nature Human Borders Threaten Wildlife As Climate Changes (Nature) 13 Feb 202113 Feb 2021 Human-made borders like the USA-Mexico border wall could make it difficult for almost 700 mammal species to adapt to climate change. Our scientists have identified 32,000km of borders fortified with…
Astronomy… What Are The Effects Of “Extra Matter” and Scalar Field On A Wormhole? (Cosmology) 13 Feb 202113 Feb 2021 Summary: ○ Ewha Womans University researcher Sung-Won Kim described the effects of extra matter and scalar field on the stability and geometry of wormhole in his 1999 paper. ○ There…
Nature Generating Electricity: The Price of Carbon Certificates Must Increase (Nature) 13 Feb 2021 Economist at FAU has calculated which strategy is most effective for reducing CO2 emissions Energy market researchers at FAU, the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria and the…
