Scientists have discovered a new wild coronavirus that closely resembles Covid-19 and is located 1,000 miles from Wuhan. Named TyRo-CoV-162275, this virus has the same cleavage site that Covid-19 has been known for, raising the possibility that Covid-19 originated in the wild and not in a lab. Moreover, researchers also found that this new virus …
The astronauts arrived at the Mars base individually, clad in faded orange spacesuits. Once inside, they passed through a pressurized chamber and removed their helmets, only to be greeted with a decontaminating mist that was sprayed onto their faces. When cyclist Lance Armstrong entered the base, one of his comrades was amazed. Ariel Winter, an …
In the depths of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, conservator Vito Milo carefully worked on conserving a 500-year-old drawing from Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus. Using a gel strip and a scalpel, Milo delicately removed the drawing from its larger paper frame. As I observed, Milo told me about the gel’s ingredients in Italian, and …