As the coronavirus outbreak in China continues to spread, having infected over 24,000 people so far, scientists around the world are racing to find a treatment. Most of the people infected with the new coronavirus, dubbed 2019-nCov, have not received a treatment specific to that virus — because there isn't one. In fact, none of the handful of coronaviruses known to infect humans has an approved treatment, and people who are infected typically receive care mainly to help relieve symptoms, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, a handful of...…As the coronavirus outbreak in China continues to spread, having infected over 24,000 people so far, scientists around the world are racing to find a treatment. Most of the people infected with the new coronavirus, dubbed 2019-nCov, have not received a treatment specific to that virus — because there isn't one. In fact, none of the handful of coronaviruses known to infect humans has an approved treatment, and people who are infected typically receive care mainly to help relieve symptoms, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, a handful of...WW…

TrendingLive Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.(Image: © Shutterstock)Huge bacteria-killing viruses lurk in ecosystems around the world from hot springs to freshwater lakes and rivers. Now, a group of researchers has discovered some of these so-called bacteriophages that are so large and so complex that they blur the line between living and nonliving, according to new findings.Bacteriophages, or "phages" for short, are that specifically infect . Phages and other viruses are not considered living organisms...…TrendingLive Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.(Image: © Shutterstock)Huge bacteria-killing viruses lurk in ecosystems around the world from hot springs to freshwater lakes and rivers. Now, a group of researchers has discovered some of these so-called bacteriophages that are so large and so complex that they blur the line between living and nonliving, according to new findings.Bacteriophages, or "phages" for short, are that specifically infect . Phages and other viruses are not considered living organisms...WW…

TrendingLive Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (yellow) among human cells (pink). This virus was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (Color has been added to the image to better show the virus and its environment.)(Image: © NIAID-RML)On Thursday (Feb. 13), the Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases revealed some of the first images of SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that has sickened over 60,000...…TrendingLive Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (yellow) among human cells (pink). This virus was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (Color has been added to the image to better show the virus and its environment.)(Image: © NIAID-RML)On Thursday (Feb. 13), the Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases revealed some of the first images of SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that has sickened over 60,000...WW…

TrendingLive Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.An artist's impression of a newly discovered stellar black hole and its blue star companion.(Image: © YU Jingchuan, Beijing Planetarium, 2019.)Editor's Note: The findings of this study because of a potential error in the analysis of starlight from the companion star. That error would mean the black hole is about the size of our sun, rather than 70 times the mass of our sun.A gigantic stellar 15,000 light-years from Earth is twice as massive as what researchers...…TrendingLive Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.An artist's impression of a newly discovered stellar black hole and its blue star companion.(Image: © YU Jingchuan, Beijing Planetarium, 2019.)Editor's Note: The findings of this study because of a potential error in the analysis of starlight from the companion star. That error would mean the black hole is about the size of our sun, rather than 70 times the mass of our sun.A gigantic stellar 15,000 light-years from Earth is twice as massive as what researchers...WW…

TrendingLive Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.The proposed telescope would be a 1km-diameter wire-mesh that can gaze out into the cosmos without being hindered by the Earth's atmosphere.(Image: © Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay)NASA is funding an early-stage proposal to build a meshed telescope inside a crater on the far side of the moon, .This "dark side" is the face of the moon that is permanently positioned away from , and as such it offers a rare view of the dark cosmos, unhindered by radio interference from...…TrendingLive Science is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.The proposed telescope would be a 1km-diameter wire-mesh that can gaze out into the cosmos without being hindered by the Earth's atmosphere.(Image: © Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay)NASA is funding an early-stage proposal to build a meshed telescope inside a crater on the far side of the moon, .This "dark side" is the face of the moon that is permanently positioned away from , and as such it offers a rare view of the dark cosmos, unhindered by radio interference from...WW…