Early action against Omicron is imperative to avoid devastating consequences | Ewan Birney

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/ That's a lot of mutations. (credit: Stanford) On Friday, the World Health Organization officially named a new version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus a variant of concern, and attached the Greek letter omicron to the designation. The

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What does Omicron mean in Greek?

THE NEW "variant of concern" has been named 'Omicron'. Here's all there

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We Know Almost Nothing About the Omicron Variant

As fall dips into winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the coronavirus has served up the holiday gift that no one, absolutely no one, asked for: a new variant of concern , dubbed Omicron by the World Health Organization on Friday . Omicron, also known as

Communities plant trees along banks of White Volta

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The James Webb space telescope: in search of the secrets of the Milky Way

Billions of dollars over budget and years late, the most expensive, complex telescope to be sent into space will launch next month. What will it learn? In a few weeks, the most ambitious, costly robot probe ever built, the £6.8bn James Webb space telescope,

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The Ministry of Land and Natural Resources (MLNR) ordered the suspension to fast track rehabilitation of all degraded mine sites in forest reserves. “The suspension is therefore seen as a step in the right direction and for that matter highly commendable and

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South Africa today said it should be 'applauded not punished' for detecting the super mutant Omicron Covid variant. The strain makes vaccines at least 40 per cent less effective against transmission than they are against Delta, according to experts, but

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Government urged to invest in Northern Ghana renewable energy potential

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South African Scientists Brace for Wave Propelled by Omicron

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South African doctor who raised alarm about omicron variant says symptoms are ‘unusual but mild’

Joe Biden Voices 'Great Concern' About Omicron Variant that 'Spreads Rapidly'

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New Russian Module Docks with International Space Station

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Scientists used Mars' ambient noise to map the planet's subsurface layers

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Protection offered by booster shot beats ‘natural immunity,’ study suggests

Public health officials have been struggling to persuade eligible Americans to get their COVID-19 booster shots. New research could help them make the case that the extra dose will provide substantially more protection — even if they’ve also recovered from a

Versa Aerospace named commercial operator of VRT300 UAV

(UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM - 27th Nov, 2021) ABU DHABI, 27th November 2021 – The UAE-based Versa Aerospace has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Aeroter – one of the portfolio companies of the Strategic Development Fund (SDF), the

Hubble captures stunning image of star-forming Prawn Nebula

Washington: The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of the Prawn Nebula floating through deep space. The Prawn Nebula is a massive stellar nursery located in the constellation Scorpius, about 6,000 light years from Earth. Though the nebula

How worried should we be about the Omicron variant?

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It’s time to fear the fungi

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Nuclear power is never safe or economical

Win turbines behind a solar farm. The only real sources of clean, renewable energy are wind and solar, not nuclear, a reader writes. | Michael Sohn/AP Photos I hope Sen. Durbin changes his mind about promoting nuclear energy. The real carbon-free sources of

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Archaeologists Pull 1,200-Year-Old Dugout Fishing Canoe From Bottom of Wisconsin Lake

State Archaeologists on Nov. 2 dredged up the oldest water vessel in Wisconsin history from the bottom of Lake Mendota. A dugout canoe

France Says it is Willing to Discuss Autonomy for Guadeloupe

France is willing to discuss autonomy for the French Caribbean territory of Guadeloupe if it is in the interests of the people who live there, government minister Sebastien Lecornu said. Guadeloupe and the nearby French island

Artificial intelligence tool predicts treatment response and survival in small cell lung cancer patients

Researchers at the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) at Case Western Reserve University have used artificial intelligence (AI) to identify patterns on computed tomography (CT) scans that offer new promise for treating

The Simple Arithmetic Of Wind Power

Nations have spent hundreds of billions of dollars hoping to replace coal and natural gas to no avail. Australians and Germans have suffered from the government’s decisions the most. They now have sky-high energy costs and frequent blackouts. Both are

Mystery of ‘high performing’ novel solar cell materials revealed

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have used a suite of correlative, multimodal microscopy methods to visualize, for the first time, why perovskite materials are seemingly so tolerant of defects in their structure. Their findings were published in

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Where are the ‘rapidly warming winters’ this time round? It seems global warming is behaving badly, in parts of the Arctic at least. Shipping firms blame the Russian Met office for a forecast that failed to predict the early ice, says the

Low-Cost Offshore Wind Power Claims Go Up In Smoke

Europe’s great wind drought continues, unabated. Adding to the wind industry’s woes, its claims that offshore wind power is ‘free’ and getting cheaper all the time have been totally torched – again. Over the last two years, Andrew Montford has been keeping a

Bengaluru-Patna flight makes emergency landing in Nagpur due to engine snag

A Patna-bound flight from Bengaluru was forced to make an emergency landing at Nagpur Airport on Saturday afternoon. The Go-Air flight had 139 passengers and crew members when the pilot saw smoke coming out of one of its engines. According to a Nagpur airport

Last solar eclipse of the year: Here’s how, when and where you can watch

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‘Star Trek’ Meme Reminds Us To Be Thankful For Earth Itself

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An IT engineer walks for farmersDilli Chalo

Nagaraj S Kalkutagar was just 100 km outside the New Delhi border, when the news filtered in: the farm laws would be repealed. This was something of an anti-climactic moment for the 40-year-old Geo-Spatial engineer from Bengaluru, who had walked more than

'You can watch 35 movies in Catalan and 93 in Icelandic on Disney+ in Catalonia'

In the last 15 years, the use of Catalan has declined by 500,000 speakers. Plataforma per la Llengua (Platform for the language), a non-governmental lobby for the Catalan language, reported that in 2021 there are only 4,500,000 frequent speakers. One of

Only Alcohol – Not Caffeine, Diet or Lack of Sleep – Might Trigger Heart Rhythm Condition

New research from UC San Francisco that tested possible triggers of a common heart condition, including caffeine, sleep deprivation and sleeping on the left side, found that only alcohol use was consistently associated with more episodes of the heart

Infecting Gut Microbes with CRISPR-loaded Virus Demonstrates Potential for Microbiome Gene Editing

In a first, researchers at the UC San Francisco have successfully used the DNA-editing system, CRISPR to alter the genomes of bacteria living in the guts of mammals, a development which stands to advance our understanding of the microbiome and could eventually

Prenatal, early-life influences on child brain development focus of new study

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are joining scientists at 24 other sites around the country to conduct a comprehensive study aimed at understanding how prenatal factors and early life experiences influence brain development

Ultrashort-pulse lasers kill bacterial superbugs, spores

Life-threatening bacteria are becoming ever more resistant to antibiotics, making the search for alternatives to antibiotics an increasingly urgent challenge. For certain applications, one alternative may be a special type of laser. Researchers at Washington

James Webb Space Telescope launch delayed, again

Space agencies have been planning this thing since 1996, so what’s four more days? The European Space Agency has delayed the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope until December 22 so that it can undergo additional testing following an incident that

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NMSU engineering students explore new technology for the 'New Space Era'

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Since early in the Covid pandemic, the Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa has been monitoring changes in SARS-CoV-2. This was a valuable tool to understand better how the virus spread. In late 2020, the network detected a new virus lineage,

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Catalan is a vibrant, living language with 10 million speakers and a history stretching back to the Middle Ages, but statistics show a decline in use and language

CERN discovered its first neutrinos at LHC

Neutrinos are especially difficult to detect, especially in a LHC-like particle accelerator. However, CERN researchers succeeded in this, paving the way for new scientific horizons. Neutrinos are elementary particles with many notable characteristics. We know

IKK/NF-κB Activation as a Target for Senotherapeutics

The accumulation of senescent cells in later life is a contributing cause of aging. While these errant cells never amount to more than a tiny fraction of all cells in a tissue, their inflammatory signaling is harmful. Researchers here describe an approach to

Guided-TTS: Text-to-Speech with Untranscribed Speech

Neural text-to-speech (TTS) models are successfully used to generate high-quality human-like speech. However, most TTS models can be trained if only the transcribed data of the desired speaker is given. That means that long-form untranscribed data, such as

Scientists Create Genetically Modified E Coli Bacteria for 3D Ink Printing

Drug delivery, environmental clean up, building in space among possible applications. Scientists say they have succeeded in producing programmable 3D printed objects from microbial ink produced by genetically modified E coli (Escherichia coli) bacteria. The

Elixir Foundation commemorates 'World Children's Day 2021' in partnership with UNICEF India at Gujarat Science City

New Delhi , November 27 (ANI/ATK): More than 150 children from across the state celebrated the World Children's Day 2021 event held at Gujarat Science City on 20th November, Saturday. The event was organized by Elixir Foundation, in partnership with the

Bengaluru-Patna Flight Makes Emergency Landing at Nagpur Airport Due to Engine Glitch

A Patna-bound GoAir

Patna-bound GoAir flight makes emergency landing at Nagpur airport due to engine glitch

A Patna-bound GoAir flight with 139 passengers on board made an emergency landing after taking off from Bengaluru on Saturday. The flight�landed at the

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NHS England to test Netflix-style subscriptions for antibiotics

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Bengaluru-Patna GoAir flight makes emergency landing at Nagpur airport citing an engine glitch

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Bengaluru-Patna GoAir flight makes emergency landing at Nagpur airport due to engine glitch

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Patna-bound GoAir flight makes emergency landing in Nagpur after engine glitch

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A competition is offering primary-school-age children a shot at designing the logo that will adorn the sides of rockets launched from UK spaceports next year. The UK Space Agency's contest is open to children all across the country and will run until March 11,

EgoRenderer: Rendering Human Avatars from Egocentric Camera Images

A recent paper on arXiv.org proposes to render full-body avatars with realistic appearance and motion of a person wearing an egocentric fisheye camera from arbitrary external camera viewpoints. It enables new applications in sports performance analysis, health

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Last Solar Eclipse of 2021: When, How to Watch, Visibility

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Film-makers remain innovative but something has gone wrong in the engine room

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Tourists Rush to South Africa Airport After Travel Bans Issued

Anxious-looking travelers thronged Johannesburg international airport and stood in long queues on Friday, desperate to squeeze onto the last flights to countries that had just shut their doors to South Africa. Many cut short their holidays, rushing back from

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Perovskite, a mineral made of lead salts, has emerged as a promising material in creating low cost strong solar cells, as it allows the technology to be 3D printed and to last up to 25 years - and now a new study has uncovered the structure of this 'magical'

Biden Enacts Africa Travel Ban Despite Calling Bans Racist, Xenophobic in 2020

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China launches Zhongxing-1D satellite

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Tianzhou cargo craft to help advance science

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Archaeologists find 800-year old mummy in Peru

LIMA, Nov 26 (Reuters) - A team of experts has found a mummy estimated to be at least 800 years old on Peru's central coast, one of the archaeologists who participated in the excavation said on Friday. The mummified remains were of a person from the

Nobody self-identifies as being anti-science

I don't believe I';ve ever heard anybody fess up to being anti-science. Any yet, so may are. Why is this? Those who follow the scientific method

Blue States Experience Massive Coronavirus Surge in Last Two Weeks

Blue states, some of which had the most restrictive requirements in the country throughout the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, are experiencing massive surges of the virus as the holiday season arrives. ...

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IAEA Concludes Long Term Operational Safety Review at the Atucha Nuclear Power Plant in Argentina

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts today completed a review of long term operational safety at Unit 1 of the Atucha Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Argentina. ...

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StageZero Life Sciences Announces Closing of CAD$4.2 Million Private Placement with Institutional Investors

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Albatross 'Divorces' May Be Climbing Because Of Climate Change

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Florida mom and python hunter save their car from serpent ahead of Thanksgiving

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