At the time we started working on this briefing, news that a new virus was claiming lives in the Chinese city of Wuhan was just breaking. By the time we completed it, the new coronavirus had spread across most of the world. Entire countries went on lockdown, with businesses shuttering up, and the public retreating…

Curwin Bosch (Gallo Images) Former Springbok Pat Lambie believes Curwin Bosch has made great strides in shaking the stigma attached to his defensive capabilities."There are different ways to skin a cat," says Lambie about the different tackling techniques to help smaller players.Bosch was the leading points scorer in Super Rugby this year (86) and is…

By Jonathan O’Callaghan Comet 153P/Ikeya-Zhang has the longest known tailPEKKA PARVIAINEN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has revealed a record-breaking comet, with a tail that stretched more than seven times the distance between Earth and the sun. Geraint Jones at University College London and his colleagues looked through past data from the mission…

Doctors at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center say the coronavirus appears to be becoming less potent.  Dr Donald Yealy, chair of emergency medicine at UPMC, explained at a press conference on Thursday that people seem to be contracting the virus less easily and cases appear to be less severe then when the pandemic first took…

New York nurses and doctors, hailed as heroes for fighting the coronavirus outbreak, are denouncing racial segregation in the public health system by joining the George Floyd protests.Wearing masks, hospital scrubs and other personal protective equipment such as face visors, about a hundred-something medical workers briefly walked out of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital Thursday to demonstrate…