Image copyright Getty Images Image caption University College Hospital in London, where the changing virus is being studied The coronavirus that is menacing the world right now is not the same as the coronavirus that first emerged in China. Sars-Cov-2, the official name of the virus that causes the disease Covid-19, and continues to blaze…
This image made by a scanning electron micrograph shows SARS-COV-2 virus particles (colorized pink) from a patient sample. NIAID/NIH hide caption toggle caption NIAID/NIH This image made by a scanning electron micrograph shows SARS-COV-2 virus particles (colorized pink) from a patient sample. NIAID/NIH This week, the question of mutation has been front and center in…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…