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Spitting cobras may have evolved unique venom to defend from ancient humans
Spitting cobras use their venom for defence. Stu Porter/shutterstock.com Cobras are fascinating and frightening creatures. These snakes are most well known for their characteristic defence mechanism called hooding, when the sides of their neck flare out in a dramatic display. However, hooding isn’t the only defensive behaviour in a cobra’sContinue Reading
Sam Mewis opens up the scoring as USWNT takes early 1-0 lead over Colombia
Watch Sam Mewis of the USWNT score the first goal of the game a to take a 1-0 lead over Colombia.Continue Reading
Growing up in lockdown: young people give their perspectives
Students protest over A-level results, summer 2020. Ilyas Tayfun Salci/Shutterstock Throughout the pandemic, decisions made by adults have had a significant impact on all aspects of young people’s lives, yet some teenagers feel their voice and experiences during the pandemic have not been heard. The political has become personal forContinue Reading
Coronavirus: why combining the Oxford vaccine with Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine could make it more effective
Jim Barber/Shutterstock When the efficacy of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine was announced in late 2020, there was some confusion. The overall efficacy of the vaccine at stopping people developing symptomatic COVID-19, two weeks after the second dose, was 70%. But this wasn’t the whole picture. This figure was based on averagingContinue Reading
Cognitive decline due to ageing can be reversed in mice – here’s what the new study means for humans
Memory declines with age. Robert Kneschke/Shutterstock The ageing global population is the greatest challenge faced by 21st-century healthcare systems. Even COVID-19 is, in a sense, a disease of ageing. The risk of death from the virus roughly doubles for every nine years of life, a pattern that is almost identicalContinue Reading
Gulf blockade: Qatar hugs and makes up with its warring neighbours – but will it last?
Shortly after four Arab countries – Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt – imposed an embargo on Qatar in 2017, I flew into the country’s capital Doha. Hamad airport – usually buzzing with visitors from the Gulf countries (one of every four visitors to Qatar in 2015Continue Reading
Coronavirus variants: why being more transmissible rather than more deadly isn’t good news
Fotomay/Shutterstock Every time the coronavirus replicates, it has a chance to mutate. And given that it is currently rampaging around the world, it has plenty of opportunities to do just that. Many mutations will make little or no difference to the virus’s ability to spread or cause more severe disease.Continue Reading
Bowler Like Lasith Malinga Can Win You Games From Any Situation: Harbhajan Singh | Cricket News
Following Lasith Malinga’s decision to retire from franchise cricket, his former Mumbai Indians teammate Harbhajan Singh on Thursday said a team can win a game from any situation if it has a bowler like Sri Lanka’s pace spearhead. Malinga informed the Mumbai Indians management about his decision earlier this month,Continue Reading
COVID vaccine weekly: why the UK’s ‘lumpy’ rollout shouldn’t be a concern
After an auspicious start to the new year, the UK’s vaccine drive wavered. Since hitting an initial peak of 324,000 first doses delivered on January 15, doses delivered then fell for three straight days – only to bounce back with a new record of 343,000 on January 19. Nadhim Zahawi,Continue Reading
When football clubs are less successful, fans are more loyal to each other
Fans of less successful clubs form more of a bond with each other. Motortion Films/shutterstock.com Football fans tend to be highly loyal to their group, just as the kin groups of our ancestral past would have been. This intense state of belonging, when a person feels as one with theirContinue Reading