NASA released the images below which show NO2 levels in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, and 2020. The reduction in NO2 pollution levels is dramatic.
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It’s that time of year again – the Earth is about to drive through the stream of debris that trails the Tempel-Tuttle comet – and that means METEOR SHOWER! The spectacular Leonid meteor shower will steak meteors from a point just below the head of the constellation Leo, the lion (hence the shower’s name -…
Researchers still know very little about how Coronavirus infects the lungs. After all, it’s hard to study the impact of a disease on a person while you’re scrambling to save their life. To work around this, scientists at Cambridge used donated tissue to grow “mini-lungs” in three dimensions to track the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on…
It’s official folks. It takes 247 zeptoseconds, or a trillionth of a billionth of a second, for a particle of light to cross a single molecule of hydrogen marking the shortest interval of time ever recorded. Yep, that’s a 1 written behind 20 zeroes and a decimal point. Blink, blink. It’s gone. The measurement was…
A person’s heart and breathing rates increase and heart rate variability decrease as a viral infection ramps up. All of these are measurable using a modern-day smartwatch. Researchers at Purdue University are starting a study to see if continuously collected biometric smartwatch data could be used to detect early signs of viral infections, including COVID-19.
More than one billion people turn to Google Maps for essential information about how to get from place to place. This week, Google is introducing a new COVID layer in Google Maps, a tool that shows critical information about COVID-19 cases in an area so you can make more informed decisions about where to go…
The Schmidt sting pain index is a pain scale rating the relative pain. Schmidt’s striking descriptions are worthy of the most terror-stricken horror movie. Here are examples of the Schmidt Sting Pain Index with Schmidt’s profoundly eloquent (and cringeworthy) description of the pain caused by the sting.