Everybody loves Neandertals, those big-brained brutes we supposedly outcompeted and ultimately replaced using our sharp tongues and quick, delicate minds. But did we really, though? Is it mathematically possible that we could yet be them, and they us? By the same token, could not the impossibly singular Mitochondrial Eve, her contemporary Y-chromosome Adam, and even […]
Heinrich Heine is one of Germany’s most famous poets. He is best known for his poem. Over the past several weeks, anyone who has been closely following how Germany has been dealing with the second wave of COVID-19 could see that it wasn’t going well — not very well at all. Winter in Germany, particularly […]
The European office of the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Friday that it expects to see an increase of people struggling with “severe mental health challenges” over the next few months as the toll from the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbated by the winter season. It also urged everyone to “remain at home” even if […]
While the seemingly interminable COVID-19 global pandemic is believed to have started with an endemic disease in bats that was transmitted to humans via a third species of animal, other cases of such zoonotic diseases have become (and are becoming) harder to treat because of mutations within the nuclear structure of the pathogens, according to […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for global solidarity and greater international cooperation, and must be turned into an opportunity for fundamental change, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a keynote address to the Nobel Peace Prize Forum on Friday. The event was held the day after the UN World Food Programme (WFP) officially […]
IN the past 12 years, the US Federal Reserve (the “Fed”) has faced two major financial crises. One started within financial markets (the housing finance collapse of 2007–2009) and one involved an outside shock (the COVID-19 pandemic). The Fed responded in each case with an alphabet soup of new programs, and despite the differences between the two crises, these […]
Extreme global poverty is expected to rise in 2020 for the first time in over 20 years due to the disruption caused by the “extraordinary” coronavirus crisis, the World Bank has warned. According to a new report, the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to push an additional 88 million to 115 million people into extreme poverty this […]
Experts say the safety protocols used to reduce risk during the COVID-19 pandemic can help protect you from colds and flu this fall and winter. They explain that colds, flu, and COVID-19 are all spread by droplet transmission. They say that’s why mask-wearing and physical distancing work against these illnesses. The same precautions taken to […]
The daily death toll from the coronavirus in Iran has risen to a new record with 239 lives lost, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday. Speaking at a daily press conference, Health Ministry’s Spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said 239 coronavirus patients have died across the country over the past 24 hours, the highest single-day toll […]
At least 770 students at Northumbria University in northern England have tested positive for COVID-19, the university confirmed to Euronews. “As of Friday 2 October, we can confirm that we are aware of 770 Northumbria University students who have tested positive for Covid-19 of whom 78 are symptomatic,” a spokesperson from the university said. “These […]
