No one would have believed at the start of 2020 that after half a year a single South American relative of a camel (an Alpaca to be precise) could potentially hold the key to humanity's salvation - A… (View Post)

Believe it or not I occasionally read books and magazines. A couple of weeks ago I bought what is now the previous months issue of New Scientist magazine. In it a couple of statistics stood out for m… (View Post)

That was for last week. I only found out via the newsletter just released. Surely it would have been (at least) nice if we had been reminded of this at the time, on these forums? Here is the relevant… (View Post)

Breaking (BBC News) - Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug. The article explains better than I could. TR (View Post)

They are Opera, Firefox and MS Edge. All three display an exclamation mark at the left end of the address bar instead of the usual padlock. Oddly enough this is only on the front page. As soon as I g… (View Post)