Science
Sunlight Inactivates Coronavirus 8 Times Faster Than Predicted. We Need to Know Why – ScienceAlert
A team of scientists is calling for greater research into how sunlight inactivates SARS-CoV-2 after realizing there’s a glaring discrepancy between the most recent…
A team of scientists is calling for greater research into how sunlight inactivates SARS-CoV-2 after realizing there’s a glaring discrepancy between the most recent theory and experimental results.
UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineer Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz and colleagues noticed the virus was inactivated as much as eight times faster in experiments than the most recent theoretical model predicted.
“The theory assumes that inactivation works by having UVB hit the RNA of the virus, damaging it,” explained…
-
Noosa News16 hours agoFlatmates of missing teen Pheobe Bishop, 17, identified
-
Noosa News18 hours agoTully Sugar Mill celebrates 100 years of cane harvesting amid floods and cyclones
-
General15 hours agoPostecoglou’s message touches Blues AFL coach Voss after Spurs’ Europa League win
-
General22 hours agoOne person dead after house fire in Melbourne’s south-east