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Traditional Japanese dish may be an unexpected weapon in the fight against corona

An extract made from nattō has been shown to inhibit the ability of the coronavirus to infect cells. Nattō is a sticky and strong-smelling traditional...

COVID-19 is easier to eradicate than polio

But then enough people must be vaccinated and the spread of newly emerging variants must be nipped in the bud. Of course we all want...

COVID-19 can just transform into a childhood disease

As adults become immune, the risk of infection will shift to younger, unvaccinated children, researchers predict. What we know so far about the coronavirus seems...

Covid-19 vaccines protect less well against Delta variant

Covid-19 vaccines protect less well against Delta variant, and a third shot certainly seems necessary for vulnerable groups. This is the conclusion of a...

Quarantined in a test tube: these flies underwent it for science

And it turns out that quarantined lone fruit flies sleep too little and eat too much. Recognizable? For many people, the lockdowns introduced have...

One vaccine against all variants and future coronavirus outbreaks: it doesn’t seem impossible

People who have had SARS have been shown to produce antibodies after vaccination with Pfizer that successfully fight not only known corona variants, but...

Major pandemics are much less rare than you think

And the chance that one will break out will also become much greater in the coming decades. The current COVID-19 pandemic is arguably the deadliest...

Where did the pandemic start? If we don’t hurry, we’ll never know

Any delay will make some studies biologically impossible. If we want to find out the origin of the coronavirus, we will have to act...

A large part of seriously ill corona patients still have complaints after 1 year

A large-scale study in China shows this. We know that if you've had COVID-19, it can take quite a while for you to fully recover....

Delta variant doubles the chance of hospitalization

It means that the delta variant is considerably more dangerous for unvaccinated people than the alpha (British) variant. Meanwhile, the original coronavirus has mutated several...

How often were there cousin-cousin parents?

The researchers looked for evidence of parental kinship in DNA obtained from human remains. (Image: MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology) Today it is considered the...

Bushfires as a sea fertilizer

Smoke from the Australian fires over the South Ocean. (Image: Japan's National Institute of Information and Communication Technology) The terrible bush fires in Australia...

With an “intelligent fence” against the wolf

Wolf in Germany (Image: AB Photography / iStock) So far, fences have hardly been of any help against attacks by wolves on grazing animals: electric...

“Exhaust gas” from galaxies analyzed

Side view of a galaxy (white) and the gas it emits (orange). (Image: James Josephides / Swinburne Astronomical Productions) Gas is the raw material...

Milky Way is less homogeneous than expected

Hydrogen gas (magenta) flows into the Milky Way. The section shows the solar neighborhood. (Image: Mark A. Garlick) Our home galaxy consists not...

News from the “dog bone asteroid”

Recordings from different angles enabled the development of a detailed 3D model of the bizarrely shaped asteroid. (Image: ESO / Vernazza, Marchis et...

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