Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca anti-coronavirus vaccines have shown roughly the same effectiveness in protecting the oldest people from COVID-19 a few weeks after a single dose. This is the conclusion reached by British researchers, their report was published in the journal The BMJ. The report included data on 156,930 vaccinated participants ≥70 years old who […]
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Voyager 1 heard “light rain noise” 23 billion km from Earth: audio from deep space
Launched 44 years ago, the Voyager 1 probe since August 2012 is no longer flying in the heliosphere of the solar system. With the distance from the Sun, solar disturbances at different frequencies subsided, which allowed the apparatus to register a barely noticeable but steady “hum” of extremely rarefied ionized interstellar gas. Writes about this […]
Coronavirus. What should be the second generation vaccine: the development of American biologists
To maximize protection against coronavirus, the next generation of vaccines should target not only the S-protein of viral particles, but also against the N-protein in which the genetic code of the pathogen is “packed”. The authors of two candidate vaccines write about this in the preprints of preclinical studies. Microbiologists from two universities in […]
Why do animals yawn – and people as well. Scientists decided it was not out of boredom: research
The larger the brain in vertebrates and the more neurons per unit volume, the longer they yawn. Such a study was carried out by an international group of scientists, the results were published yesterday in the journal Nature Biology. 1291 yawns were analyzed in 55 mammalian and 46 bird species. The authors went to […]
Israel clarifies the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech anti-coronavirus vaccine
The vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech a week or more after the second dose is 95.3% effective against coronavirus infection. Updated estimates of the effectiveness of a biological product in the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic in Israel were published by The Lancet. The authors used surveillance data from the first four months of the national […]
How Pfizer-biontech Vaccine Protects Seniors Against Life-threatening COVID-19 Cases – Report
Vaccination with anti-coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna was 94% effective against hospitalization with COVID-19 in fully immunized people ≥65 years of age. This is reported in a press release by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In addition, a single dose of these mRNA vaccines resulted in 64 percent protection […]
Humanity Will Launch Interstellar 1,000 Times Farther Than Record-breaking Voyagers
American and European scientists have developed and intend to assemble the Interstellar interstellar probe. Its task is to go beyond the solar system and transmit information about what is happening at a distance of about 1000 times farther than from the Sun to the Earth, writes the European Union of Earth Sciences. The project […]
The Oldest Dwelling Of Human Ancestors Was Found In AfricA: 3D Panorama, Virtual Tour Of The Cave
Archaeologists have discovered the most ancient dwelling of primitive people: this is the Vanderwerk cave (“Miracle” in Afrikaans, – ed.) in the African Kalahari Desert. The researchers reported the find in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews. Authors from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Toronto claim to have found fragments of […]
J&j Vaccine Protects All Trial Participants From Hospitalization And Death In COVID-19
Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine fully protects against hospitalization and death with COVID-19 approximately one month after administration. This is also true for countries where mutant variants of the coronavirus are common. J&J Chief Scientist Paul Stoffels said this, commenting on the publication of primary data from phase III clinical trials in the New England […]
Colonization Of Mars Is Getting Closer: Oxygen Was Produced For The First Time On The Red Planet
On April 20, an experimental instrument aboard the Perseverance rover successfully produced oxygen on Mars. This was announced by the NASA subsite dedicated to the Mars 2020 mission. The MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-situ Resource Utilization Experiment) instrument at 800 ° C separates oxygen atoms from carbon dioxide molecules, releasing a by-product, carbon monoxide, into […]