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A new strain of swine flu with the potential to become pandemic has recently been identified by scientists in China. While it is not an immediate threat, the new virus has all of the signs of being highly adapted to infect humans, and should be closely monitored. If the virus mutates further, it could set off another global outbreak.

Two white rhinoceroses at the Waterberg Plateau in northern Namibia. Image courtesy of Ikiwaner.The University of Pretoria (UP) is working with international partners to perform in vitro fertilization (IVF) to support dwindling rhinoceros populations. By developing...

SpaceX's Crew Dragon successfully launched on Saturday, May 30 at 15:22 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The historic launch pad has previously hosted Apollo and space shuttle missions. Demo-2 was the first crewed orbital...

Researchers at Edo University (Nigeria) and University of Bening (Nigeria) recently worked together to investigate the electronic and optical properties of nitrogen doped anatase for solar power applications. Anatase is one of the prominent polymorphs of...

Though beam-based lattices have dominated mechanical metamaterials for the past two decades, low structural efficiency limits their performance to fractions of the Hashin-Shtrikman and Suquet upper bounds, i.e. the theoretical stiffness and strength limits...

With the recent and ongoing stay at home orders and social distancing in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more people than ever before are working remotely, participating in e-learning, and binging Netflix. This has created quite a bit of strain on...