Science

Deltacron: New COVID variant or lab mistake?

A researcher in Cyprus claims to have found a new coronavirus variant that combines characteristics of delta and omicron. Other researchers have their doubts. But the Cypriot scientist has doubled down on his discovery.  

James Webb telescope deployed in space

The James Webb Space Telescope has completed its deployment phase and unfolded its final mirror panel. A successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, it is the most powerful telescope ever built to date.  

Coronavirus: Health experts not alarmed by new variant identified in France

Despite its many mutations, experts are not overly concerned about IHU coronavirus variant B.1.640.2, first discovered in a traveler returning from Cameroon to France.  

The risk of dementia in football: A ticking time bomb?

For a long time, links to dementia were widely ignored in professional football. This has now started to change, at least in the English game, where the issue is addressed much more than in Germany.  

200th Birthday

The archaeologist who discovered Troy: Heinrich Schliemann

Born 200 years ago in Germany, the adventurer-archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann was obsessed with finding the kingdom of Troy described in Homer's "Iliad."  

CES Las Vegas

Space tourism, meta experiences and more

With the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas around the corner, market researcher Steve Koenig elaborates on space tech, telemedicine, connected fitness and the metaverse at the world's largest tech trade show.  

How to find the COVID-19 facts in a misinformation pandemic

There's a lot of information out there about the pandemic, COVID-19 and the virus that causes it, but also a lot of mis- and disinformation. To tell one from the other, it helps to understand how science works.  

Richard Leakey

Fossil hunter who helped prove humans evolved in Africa, dies at 77

Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey was the middle son of world-renowned anthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey. He helped uncover evidence to prove humankind evolved in Africa.  

Endemic, epidemic, pandemic: What's the difference?

A lot of people hope that the coronavirus will disappear as quickly as it came. But many virologists assume the virus will become endemic, especially with omicron. This means we'll have to live with it.  

COVID isolation cuts priotizes business over health, say scientists

As the United States cuts isolation time for asymptomatic COVID cases in half, scientists are worried the guidelines support the economy, rather than public health.