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The new coronavirus has been found in the semen of infected individuals, according to Chinese researchers, raising the prospect that the virus could be sexually transmitted. The study, other researchers warn, also raises many questions. It doesn’t explain how much viral load was present in the sperm; nor did it examine whether the virus can…

JACINTA BOWLER 6 MAY 2020 For a virus, spreading for a few months and reaching more than 3 million hosts is a long time span to evolve and change.Some viruses - like influenza - mutate a lot, meaning that we need to update vaccines yearly to remain on top of the spread of seasonal flu.…

Potchefstroom police are investigating cases of murder and culpable homicide after the bodies of a man and his wife were found dead in separate locations this week.Police suspect that the husband killed himself by jumping in front of an oncoming truck. They also believe that his wife was strangled.According to police spokesperson Colonel Adéle Myburgh,…

Italy’s first coronavirus patient traveled from Wuhan, China, to Italy in late January and was admitted to the hospital with coronavirus symptoms days later. A recently published report shows that she had detectable traces of the virus in her eyes days after it had cleared from her nose.The report demonstrates that the novel coronavirus can…

By Jonathan O’Callaghan ‘Oumuamua, the first interstellar object found in our solar system, may not be the only oneJPL/NASA/ESA/STScI Two researchers say they have found evidence for 19 objects orbiting our sun that originated around another star, suggesting interstellar objects in our solar system may be more common than thought. Fathi Namouni at the Côte…