Scientists across the world are trying to piece together a perplexing puzzle: how exactly coronavirus affects the body, and how it spreads from person to person.Now researchers in China have found that the coronavirus, or bits of it, may linger in semen. But the paper, published Thursday in JAMA Network Open, an open-access medical journal,…
Environment 28 April 2020 By Michael Le Page Cattle can catch the bluetongue virusRealimage/Alamy Bull semen frozen for several years before being used to inseminate a cow may have sparked an ongoing bluetongue outbreak among farm animals in Europe, according to a genetic analysis of the virus strain. “It’s the most likely explanation,” says Massimo…
4 min read WHEN YOU'RE TELLING a horror story that's based around a family function or family dynamic, it's important to make sure you're getting the parents just right. Ari Aster's Hereditary, which came out in 2018, hit the nail right on the head, casting Toni Collette as the film's lead—and the increasingly unhinged (and
Dietitians regularly talk up the importance of having variety in your diet to make sure you hit your nutritional needs. But new research suggests that’s actually not helpful—at least, not when you’re trying to lose weight. The study, which was published in the journal Health Psychology, makes a strong case for sticking with the same
Can't see the audio player? Listen on: The Host The Trump administration this week missed a deadline to nominate a new director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Without a nominee, current acting Director Jay Bhattacharya — who is also the director of the National Institutes of Health — has to give up