by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
The drug baricitinib, branded as Olumiant, cut the median recovery time by about a day when added to remdesivir, compared to patients treated with the antiviral alone, Lilly said. Remdesivir was granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) in May af...
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
Telescope observations spy a gas high in the atmosphere of Venus that on Earth is made by microbes.
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
School children across the country had tuned in to see Christa McAuliffe become the first teacher in space. One person watching was Steven Leckart, a space-obsessed elementary school kid. Leckart has returned to that dark day as co-director of the...
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
With interest in the possibility of life at Venus, there's an imperative to get more spacecraft to the planet.
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
Reindeer herders in a Russian Arctic archipelago have found an immaculately preserved carcass of an Ice Age cave bear, researchers said Monday. The find, revealed by the melting permafrost, was discovered on the Lyakhovsky Islands with its teeth and...
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
Here is a look at key facts about the planet Venus, based on information from the U.S. space agency NASA and recent research findings. -- Venus, with a diameter of about 7,500 miles (12,000 km), is slightly smaller than Earth. It is the second plan...
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
Scientists said on Monday they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earth's inhospitable neighbor, a tantalizing sign of potential life beyond Earth. The researchers did not d...
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
Astronomers have found a potential sign of life high in the atmosphere of neighboring Venus: hints there may be bizarre microbes living in the sulfuric acid-laden clouds of the hothouse planet. Two telescopes in Hawaii and Chile spotted in the thick...
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
In today’s episode, we cover vulnerability and curiosity with Guy Raz. Guy is a host and correspondent who has interviewed more than 6,000 people, is the co-creator of How I Built This and the TED Radio Hour, and is now the author of How I Buil...
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
The morning after the world learned that a closely watched clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine had been halted last week over safety concerns, the company's chief executive disclosed that a person given the vaccine had experienced serious neu...
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
The Spalte Glacier in northeast Greenland has split off the Arctic's largest ice shelf and is adrift at sea, after record temperature rises.
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
An enormous chunk of Greenland’s ice cap has broken off in the far northeastern Arctic, a development that scientists say is evidence of rapid climate change. The glacier section that broke off is 110 square kilometers (42.3 square miles). It came...
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
POCONÉ, Brazil (Reuters) - A fire has been burning since mid-July in the remote wetlands of west-central Brazil, leaving in its wake a vast charred desolation bigger than New York City. This massive fire is one of thousands of blazes sweeping the Br...
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
A big chunk of ice breaks away from the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf - 79N, or Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden.
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
The first U.S. flight into Antarctica following months of winter darkness arrived Monday with crews taking extra precautions to keep out the coronavirus. Antarctica is the only continent without the virus, and there is a global effort to make sure i...