“Voyager 2” has been on the move since 1977, and radio contact has been interrupted for eleven months due to repair work on the ground station. – If space probes were humans, you could say: Voyager 2 is old enough to cope alone for a while. On the other hand, the probe, to put it … Read more
By Klaus Zintz Klaus Zintz (Zz)profile– March 9, 2020 – 5:13 p.m.- The more we know about the new pathogen, the more it becomes clear that it is different from influenza. These are the new findings of the World Health Organization. – The corona virus on the left, right Photo: dpa / Center for Disease … Read more
Knowing symptoms, sneezing properly, finding help: Many of our coronavirus infographics were posted. Now they are available for the fridge, school and bulletin board. – Getting infected with the new Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus in Germany is currently still unlikely. But you have known it for a long time: There are some measures to fundamentally minimize the … Read more
In Italy, more than 130 people have contracted the novel corona virus. Cities are cordoned off, the Venice Carnival canceled. The current developments – –Tourists with protective masks in a gondola in Venice. The picture was taken on January 31st. © Manuel Silvestri / Reuters – In Italy more than 132 people have contracted Covid-19, … Read more
The WHO has given the lung disease caused by the new coronavirus a name: it is now officially called Covid-19. The overview – – © Andrea Verdelli / Getty Images – The novel corona virus has been spreading since the end of last year – starting from the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan. In the meantime, … Read more
The Number of cancers According to a forecast by the World Health Organization (WHO) almost double by 2040. This emerges from the World Cancer Report, which the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) publishes every five years. In 2018, 18.1 million people worldwide contracted cancer, 9.6 million people died of it. In 2040, about … Read more
content Read on one page content page 1 –What we know and what we don’t Page 2 –These findings are considered very likely Page 3 –The number of infected people and the death rate are still unclear page 4 –When and who is infectious is still being researched The new corona virus, which is spreading … Read more
In Germany, the number of diseases due to the novel coronavirus rose to twelve. The Bavarian Ministry of Health confirmed two more infections. The new victims are another employee of the automotive supplier Webasto and the second child of a previously sick employee. In Bavaria ten cases are now known. There are also two sick … Read more
Berlin (dpa / tmn) – Some parents roll their eyes when the children play on the tablet or on the console all day. Others sit down and pick up the controller themselves. The currently best console for this is Nintendo’s Switch – also and above all because the Japanese manufacturer attaches great importance to family-friendliness … Read more
Random finds play a role in research that should not be underestimated. So it was a coincidence when Japanese researchers discovered a mysterious section in the genome of bacteria in 1987. Years later it became clear that the strange genetic motif belongs to a defense system with which bacteria defend themselves against bacteriophages, i.e. viruses … Read more