NASA and ESA find evidence that the first stars and galaxies formed much earlier than researchers thought, beyond the reach of the Hubble Space Telescope Hubble can see the universe back to within 500 million years of the Big Bang Experts used the telescope to determine the age of the first stars and galaxies The … Read more
Britain’s coronavirus death toll could have been halved if stay at home measures were introduced a week earlier, ‘Professor Lockdown’ Neil Ferguson has claimed. Boris Johnson introduced the lockdown on March 23 on the back of the Imperial College London scientist’s grim modelling, which predicted 500,000 people could die if the virus was left unchecked. … Read more
Britain should have gone into lockdown earlier and failing to impose restrictions sooner ‘cost a lot of lives’, says Government science expert Professor John Edmunds is an infectious diseases expert who attends SAGE He said today he believed that Britain ‘should have gone into lockdown earlier’ He warned crisis is ‘definitely not over’ and there … Read more
Exposure to a type of man-made chemicals may cause menopause to occur two years earlier in women, a new study warns. US researchers found that high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in blood samples contributed to an earlier menopause in women. PFAS, which are used as oil and water repellents and coatings for … Read more
Nearly half of Britons have admitted they are drinking earlier in the day, twice as high as nations at the other end of the spectrum. A survey of 40,000 people across the world revealed Britain tops the table among 12 countries on a number of drinking parameters. Nearly 47 per cent of people who drink … Read more
Sir Ian Boyd, a member of Number 10’s SAGE panel, admitted ‘it would have made quite a big difference’ if ministers acted sooner to fight the outbreak Thousands of lives could have been saved from Covid-19 if Britain’s lockdown was imposed just one week earlier, a government scientific adviser has claimed. Sir Ian Boyd, a … Read more
Triggering lockdown a week earlier could have saved the lives of more than 30,000 people in the UK, according to a shock study. The staggering claim was made by a mathematical sciences expert who predicted how different scenarios could have affected the progress of the outbreak in Britain. He suggests that starting the lockdown, which … Read more
Researchers from Stanford University have revised their study of how many people in Santa Clara County have coronavirus antibodies – but say it’s still much higher than previously believed. Last month, their analysis found that between 2.5 and 5.2 percent of residents tested positive for antibodies. That meant the number of infected Americans in the county was … Read more
Killing Eve has announced that series three will drop in the US two weeks earlier than planned on BBC America. The hit thriller took to its Twitter to reveal that the third season will now debut on Sunday April 12 as they unveiled a new explosive trailer. Yet British viewers were left disappointed by the … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more