Chickens coming home to roost: Scientists and doctors behind Covid origins con face corruption invstigation, Fauci features as perpetrator
After the paper’s publication on March 17, 2020, Collins promoted the paper in the March 2020 edition of the NIH Director’s Blog. And on May 21, 2020, the NIH finalised a $1.88 million grant to Andersen and the Scripps Research Institute relating to pandemic preparedness in West Africa.
Starved of time for love and weighed down by books, how PhD students enjoy snatches of romance
Is lasting love more likely if you date only other scientists? How much should you talk about your research on a first date? Researchers lift the lid on their experiences of when science meets affairs of the heart. When Karen Arellano moved to Spain from Mexico in 2020 to start...
Gold rush: How exposure to mercury, which causes irreversible brain damage and loss of vision, is a disaster in Senegal
A 2018 Duke University-led study found mercury levels in soils, sediments and water near artisanal gold mining villages in southeastern Senegal that exceeded safety thresholds set by the World Health Organization and US Environmental Protection Agency by 10 to 100 times.
Environmental racism and ethnic nepotism in Uganda are outcomes of Museveni’s apartheid-style governance
Ethnic nepotism is integral to racism and, like environmental racism, it promotes apartheid style leadership, governance and lifestyles whereby one ethnic group captures virtually all civic spaces, leadership and governance with other ethnic groups effectively excluded from leadership, governance and business and only act second fiddle to those of the ethnic group in power.
Beauty and the Beast: Kenya battles poisonous cosmetics as women constitute burgeoning market
According to the KEBS website, some of the skin lightening products include Jaribu Skin Lightening Lotion, Amira Skin Lightening Lotion, A3 Cleartouch Complexion Lotion, Fair White Body Clearing Milk and Precieux Treatment Beauty Lotion, Movate, Jaribu, Rico, Miki, Mekako, Tura, Fair lady, and Jambo.
Some 120 vultures die after eating carcass of elephant poisoned by poachers in South Africa’s flagship national park
The Kruger National Park covers approximately 20,000 square kilometres (7,722 square miles) and is nearly twice the size of small countries like Jamaica and Qatar.
Study finds adults exposed to chemicals used in food packaging, cosmetics and printed receipts suffer memory loss and cognitive decline
Using data from nearly 900 US adults with an average age of 69, researchers found that combined exposure to phenols, parabens and especially phthalates (PAEs) was linked to lower scores on standard tests of brain function, particularly among men.
‘A scientist walked outside to have lunch with a girlfriend’ and leaked Covid from lab,’ Trump jokes as he pauses gain-of-function research funding
Critics argue that it has a “dual-use” potential, as the pathogens can be used for bioweapons research and development. The question of Covid-19 origins has largely become a partisan debate that sees it as either a natural spill-over or a lab leak – although other researchers argue it could have been an intentional leak, or that there was no pandemic virus.
Study: Covid vaccination on pregnant women resulted in miscarriage, foetal malformations, premature birth, stillbirth, newborn asphyxia and newborn death
That study “found that among approximately 1.3 million Czech women of ages 18-39, those vaccinated against Covid-19 had approximately 33 per cent fewer successful pregnancies compared to unvaccinated women,” Hulscher said.
Autistic Nigerian teenager sets world painting record with canvas bigger than a soccer field
The artwork, created in November 2024, was unveiled and officially recognised by the Guinness World Record organisers in Nigeria’s capital of Abuja during the World Autism Acceptance Day in April. Nigeria’s art and culture minister Hannatu Musawa said Tagbo-Okeke’s artwork is “a beacon of hope and inspiration” for people with autism.
