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Two University of Canterbury (UC) mathematicians have been granted $710,000 from Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden, the Marsden Fund, to investigate mathematical models for extinction events in the tree of life. Using a mathematical and algorithmic framework, ...

It is not yet known if current vaccines would be effective against the new variant, though several studies are ongoing to find out.

Through genome analysis, scientists have confirmed extremely rare cases of mothers transmitting their tumors to their fetuses.  The researchers from the National Cancer Center in Tokyos Chuo Ward and other institutes discovered that the children of mothers with cervical cancer developed lung cancer. “It is normally impossible for someone’s cancer cells to spread to another person,” said Hiroyuki Mano, director of the National Cancer Center Research Institute. “The tumors likely grew i...

The US has administered more than 14 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. When its time to get your shot, its important to know where to go.

Scientist calls fossilized assassin bug private parts a rare treat A stunningly well-preserved 50-million-year-old fossil is giving insights into insect history. Listen - 01:28 Found in Colorado, this fossil is a species now called Aphelicophontes danjuddi. A small beetle also appears with the larger assassin bug. Daniel Swanson/Palaeontological Association Perhaps the phrase should be "snug as a bug in...

Elon Musks space company could send nearly 100 satellites to orbit in a single go this week.

Located in the constellation of Virgo, the NGC 4535 galaxy is around 50-million light-years away from Earth. Jan 19, 2021 20:22:00 IST Hubble has released the colours of NGC 4535 in a new image. Taking to Twitter, ESA posted the image, alongside the caption, "This NASA/ESA @HUBBLE_space Telescope image shows barred spiral galaxy NGC 4535: its bright blue-ish spiral arms indicate a greater number of younger hotter stars, the yellower central bulge suggests that this area is home to older and coo...

A genij-botaru firefly (Shunsuke Kimura) Researchers have shed new light on the color of the glow that fireflies gave off about 100 million years ago by re-creating the luminescent enzyme from one the species possess today. The beetles glowed a dark green during the Cretaceous Period, compared with a range of colors from yellow to green emitted by their modern-day counterparts, according to a study by researchers at Chubu University, Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology and other i...

Monday, 18 January 2021, 12:15 pm MetService is forecasting an active front to sweep across Aotearoa this week, bringing heavy rain to western parts of southern and central New Zealand and strong northwest winds to many places. The front is followed by a change to showery southwesterlies, with temperatures forecast to plummet across much of the country, and large waves predicted to affect southern and western coastlines. An unstable northwesterly flow brings showers to southern and western part...

Paddington bear mother, cub spotted wandering around tourist-free Machu Picchu The Andean Spectacled Bear is the only surviving bear species in South America and the last of the short-faced bear subgroup in the world. Jan 18, 2021 16:30:15 IST Two members of South Americas only bear species – a mother and her cub – have been spotted exploring the ruins of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, where tourist numbers have been restricted due to the pandemic. The pair of Spectacled bears, also kno...