by The Baffled Entrepreneur | Oct 27, 2020 | Sky News
Vampire bats “socially distance” when they are sick, a new study suggests. Dozens of bats were captured from a hollow tree in Belize; some were injected with a substance that mimics the symptoms of a bacterial infection, while the other half got saline...
by The Baffled Entrepreneur | Oct 26, 2020 | Sky News
Hopes that the population will become immune to COVID-19 have been dashed by new research showing antibodies fall rapidly after recovering from the disease. So-called herd immunity has been proposed by some scientists as a better alternative to lockdowns in tackling...
by The Baffled Entrepreneur | Oct 26, 2020 | Sky News
Water could be more common on the moon than previously thought in what would provide “everything that NASA needs” for future lunar missions. Natural supplies of water there would allow astronauts to hydrate themselves and help to provide fuel for other...
by The Baffled Entrepreneur | Oct 26, 2020 | Sky News
The new boss of the contact-tracing app has only taken the job for six months, Sky News has learned, raising concerns about the rapid turnover of executives at the top of the troubled Test and Trace programme. Gaby Appleton, a director of academic publishing company...
by The Baffled Entrepreneur | Oct 25, 2020 | Sky News
Astronauts can lose as much as 10% of bone density during six months in space, according to NASA, because there’s no gravity for their body to push against. To offset the effect, they exercise for two hours a day, at least six days a week. But a London engineer...
