JAKARTA – Two 52-million-year-old bat skeletons found at the bottom of an ancient lake in Wyoming, United States are the oldest bat fossils ever found, apart from revealing a new species. Tim Rietbergen, an evolutionary biologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, Netherlands, identified a previously unknown bat species when he began collecting measurements … Read more
Heriot-Watt University researchers have found a way to tackle the mountains of waste created by medical masks using a new method that involves air and electricity. The technique can replace incineration, which is expensive and harmful to the environment, and instead use a cold plasma system that requires only around 200 watts of electricity, equivalent … Read more
Few creatures have pushed anatomy to its limits as much as sauropods. These giant dinosaurs moved on column-like legs that supported their massive bodies, wagging whip-like tails to ward off predators and using their long necks to devour foliage. This entire group of dinosaurs is commonly known as the long-necked dinosaurs, but the Mamenchisaurus, which … Read more
In this third case, it is a man followed in Düsseldorf. As detailed the prestigious journal Nature Medicine, according to the recommendations at the time, the patient started antiretroviral treatment in 2010 which allowed him to control the HIV infection and reduce the amount of virus to undetectable levels in the blood, like most people … Read more
Will a new drug against the virus soon see the light of day? This is what the authors of a study published on Wednesday hope, according to which a single injection of a new antiviral treatment against Covid-19 halved, in clinical trials, the risk of hospitalization in case of of infection. A solution that could … Read more
Related news In today’s agriculture, registered strains of Trichoderma, a microscopic soil-dwelling fungus that associates with plant roots, are marketed as biological control agents against agriculturally important plant pathogens, both for their antagonistic action against them and as plant defense activators, transmitted systemically through a complex network of phytohormones. However, it has been seen that, … Read more