ScienceAlert: Ebola May Be Cured With a Pill, Monkey Experiment Suggests
Monkeys infected with Ebola can be cured with a pill, according to a new study out Friday that could pave the way for more practical, affordable treatments in humans.
Easier storage, better/earlier uptake, lower delivery costs — would all be benefits in reducing the human impact of a nasty disease.
ScienceAlert: Looking at Images of Nature Does Something Powerful in The Brain
“Our study is the first to provide evidence from brain scans that this isn’t just a placebo effect,” Steininger said in a statement.
The nature scenes provoked decreased activity in a part of the brain involved in perceiving pain, called nociception. However other areas linked to regulating pain were not significantly affected.
How to Geek: Volkswagen’s New Long-Range Battery Plan Takes Aim Squarely at Tesla
At their recent annual media conference, Volkswagen Group officials unveiled a new battery configuration–not a new battery, but a new way of arranging them. Why does this matter?
The arrangement of batteries in vehicles directly affects their range. By exploring this approach, one already pioneered by China’s BYD, Volkswagen Group, which includes Audi and Porsche, could create cars with impressive range at a significantly lower cost.
USA Today: Starliner astronauts to return with Crew-9 sooner than expected
Weather conditions off the Florida coast, where astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will land with the two members of a mission known as Crew-9, prompted NASA and SpaceX to move up the mission’s return date. Wilmore and Williams are now expected to board a SpaceX Dragon capsule with the Crew-9 team to undock early Tuesday morning from the International Space Station.
The four spacefarers — also including NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov — would then make a water landing Tuesday evening near Florida.
Guardian: ‘It’s a history lesson’: fossil fish up to 16m years old found perfectly preserved in central NSW
Fossils retain microscopic structural features including stomach contents and provide first detailed evidence in Australia for fish called Osmeriformes.
Last Updated: 17.Mar.2025 23:49 EDT
