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• All the coronavirus antivirals and vaccine research projects being fast-tracked right now

  Just three months after China first notified the World Health Organization about a deadly new coronavirus, studies of numerous antiviral treatments and potential vaccines are already underway. Never has science advanced so much in such a short period of time to combat an epidemic. Many ...

  • The Conversation

• Researchers explain why social distancing is so hard for many of us

  For many people, the most distressing part of the coronavirus pandemic is the idea of social isolation. If we get ill, we quarantine ourselves for the protection of others. But even among the healthy, loneliness may be setting in as we engage with pre-emptive social distancing. There ...

  • The Conversation

• Scientists are working on new ways to recycle chemicals from electronic waste

  Our connected consumer society generates a lot of electronic waste, around 50 million tonnes per year worldwide. It is even currently the waste that shows the strongest growth from one year to the next. The value of the raw materials included in this waste is estimated at 50-60 billion ...

  • The Conversation

• Hubble telescope discovers Galaxy-ripping quasar tsunamis in space

  Quasar tsunamis discovered by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope erupt in the most energetic outflows of material ever seen. This outpouring of energy wrecks havoc with galaxies in which these enigmatic objects reside, altering the evolution of these families of stars. Quasars ...

  • The Cosmic Companion

• Google offers comprehensive coronavirus datasets to researchers for free

  One of the ways scientists and researchers are trying to understand and find a solution for coronavirus is through building ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• COVID-19: All you need to know about testing for this coronavirus

  One of the key factors in tackling the spread of COVID-19 across the globe is testing. In South Korea, for example, mass testing has been used to try and quickly identify and isolate those with the disease. Testing is also vital to calculate accurate infection and survival rates – ...

  • The Conversation

• Labs experiment with new and unproven methods to create COVID-19 vaccine

  The coronavirus has ground social, economic, and educational exchanges to a halt around the world. For now, public health officials are relying on tools like social distancing to minimize the harm of the virus, but in the long term, a COVID-19 vaccine is the best hope of a return ...

  • The Conversation

• What will we do when diseases reach space?

  In an effort to mitigate damage from COVID-19 here on Earth, people worldwide are practicing social distancing, attempting to limit the spread of the disease. However, space is extremely tight on space stations, and the first lunar and Martian colonies are also likely to house occupants ...

  • The Cosmic Companion

• The distorted idea of ‘cool’ brain research is stifling psychotherapy

  ‘There is always a well-known solution to every human problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.’ From Prejudices (1920) ...

  • Aeon

• Comet Atlas could be the brightest comet in decades

  Comet Atlas is racing toward the inner solar system, and it could become the brightest comet seen in the night sky in over ...

  • The Cosmic Companion

• World's smallest dinosaur discovered in a 99-million-year-old piece of amber

  The head of a flying dinosaur that is hardly bigger than a bee hummingbird has been discovered in 99-million-year-old amber. ...

  • The Conversation

• 600 scientists oppose UK's use of behavioral science to fight coronavirus

  The UK government’s handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic has come under serious criticism, not just from citizens, ...

  • The Conversation