Many of us are stuck in the confines of our home, eagerly awaiting development on a treatment for the coronavirus, so that the pandemic may end. Fortunately, some progress is being made, albeit slowly. CanSino Biologics, a Chinese vaccine company, was the first to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus. After 10 weeks, the results […]
Just last year, John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino were awarded the Nobel peace prize in chemistry for the invention of the lithium-ion battery. Now, researchers are already exploring a cheaper, more easily produced alternative, the Sodium-ion battery. The sodium-ion battery has the potential to be especially useful in large-scale energy storage […]
In the midst of COVID-19, researchers have discovered interesting things about a certain bacteria. Researchers found that compared to people with chronic nasal and sinus inflammation, healthy people have more than 10x the amount of Lactobacillus in their noses. Lactobacillus is an anti-inflammatory bacteria that researchers believe may have adapted to the human nose. It […]