New Coronavirus Vaccine Advances to Phase 2 Human Trials Developing a new vaccine usually takes years, but companies and governments around the world are racing to create one to neutralize the pandemic coronavirus. There is some hope for a relatively quick turnaround today. US-based biotech firm Moderna says its initial …

Unearthed in Australia Paleontologists in Australia have found a fossilized vertebra from an elaphrosaurine theropod dinosaur that walked the Earth 110 million years ago (Cretaceous period). It is the first elaphrosaur known from the Australian continent. Life reconstruction of the first Australian elaphrosaur. Image credit: Ruairidh Duncan. The newly-discovered dinosaur …

Study launched into how startups will return to offices — will WFH continue? A comprehensive study into how startups will work in the future, in the wake of the global COVID-9 pandemic, has been launched by UK non-profit Founders Forum. The initiative comes in the wake of a number of …

Core update is done rolling out The Google May 2020 core update that began rolling out on Monday, May 4, 2020, is now done rolling out. Google announced “the May 2020 Core Update rollout is complete” via Twitter on Monday. The announcement. Here is the tweet from Google at 12:37pm …

FAQ: All about Google Shopping’s free and paid product listings   Google shook up Shopping search in April 2020 by including free listings in Google Shopping results. This new approach is live in the U.S. and will roll out globally by the end of the year. Its a significant change …

Google Discover performance reports data issue Google has posted about a reporting glitch in Google Search Console’s performance reports. This reporting bug is specifically for the Google Discover performance reports and you may notice a “significant drop in Discover reporting,” Google said. What went wrong. Google said there was an …

TSMC Will Build 5nm Chip Foundry in Arizona TSMC has announced it will build a cutting-edge semiconductor foundry in Arizona, with plans to bring the fab online at the 5nm node. There are questions about just how big the factory will be and how central it is to the company’s …

AMD’s Rumored 4700G APU Packs 8 Cores, Boosted Clock Speeds AMD’s Ryzen Mobile CPUs hit the market to some fanfare earlier this year, delivering substantially improved overall performance over previous generation chips and very strong competition for Intel on the whole. It’s been obvious that AMD would bring this APU …

New Antibody Completely Neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus A team of researchers from Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. has isolated a new antibody that completely inhibits the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus virus in cell culture. Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a VERO E6 cell (purple) exhibiting elongated cell projections and signs of apoptosis, after infection with …

Northern High-Altitude Hazes NASA’s Juno orbiter captured a beautiful image during its 25th close flyby of Jupiter in February 2020. This image of Jupiter was taken on February 17, 2020 as Juno performed its 25th close flyby of the gas giant. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft …