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[ad_1] Scientists in China have discovered a new wild coronavirus with the same mutation as animals that are believed to have spread COVID-19, proving that Sars-CoV-2 was not created in a lab, Daily Mail reported. The new bat coronavirus possesses a furin cleavage site — a crucial element in COVID-19's effectiveness — which has been a topic of debate, with some experts claiming it could only have been acquired through lab experiments. The newly discovered TyRo-CoV-162275 virus, which is up to 98% identical to coronaviruses found in pangolins, — the animal long suspected of passing COVID-19 to humans — has been criticised for supporting the “lab leak theory” The theory suggests that COVID-19-like viruses emerge in the wild and pass between species, despite studies showing that wild coronaviruses can acquire the structure naturally. Dr Kristian Andersen, a top Danish infectious disease expert, shared the new study on X, formerly known as Twitter, where he wrote: “The scie...

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Scientists have put forward a theory that dark matter might actually be an alternate universe . In a recent study quoted by Daily Express, Dr Arushi Bodas and his team at the University of Chicago’s Enrico Fermi Institute suggest that dark matter could be seen as a distorted parallel universe that never fully developed. Dark matter has always been a mysterious concept. Despite making up more than 80% of all matter in the universe, scientists have never directly observed it. Its existence is inferred from the behavior of stars, planets, and galaxies , which would be impossible to explain without the presence of dark matter. The problem is that dark matter is completely imperceptible – it emits no light or energy and cannot be detected using conventional sensors and detectors. The composition of dark matter is still speculative. While visible matter, also known as baryonic matter, is made up of subatomic particles called baryons (such as protons, neutrons, an...

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Global warming may uncover an ancient river landscape hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet for a million years, according to a recent study. Although this ancient landscape remains untouched by the massive ice retreat in the region, projected climate warming could expose it in the future, as per a paper published on Tuesday in Nature Communications. The author of the study and who researches ice sheet behavior, long-term, and landscape evolution at Durham University in the UK, Stewart Jamieson , told ABC News that for about 34 million years, ice has covered Antarctica. Before that, the continent had a comparatively warm climate similar to modern-day southern South America, such as the Patagonia region in Argentina and Chile. According to Jamieson, at one time, there was evidence that Antarctica had tropical vegetation, including palm trees. Jamieson said, Scientists have recently found a vast landscape shaped by ancient rivers in Antarctica. This land...