The new corona virus is significantly reducing economic growth in China. Credit rating agency S&P Global expects the rate of growth of the second largest economy in the world to fall to 5 percent in 2020. Last year the Chinese economy improved by 6.1 percent. That was already the weakest growth in the country in almost three decades. S&P Global, …

Google launches OpenSK. That code should make it easier for other parties to create hardware security keys. With OpenSK, Google is introducing an open-source tool for creating FIDO2-compatible security keys. Such keys enable two-factor authentication. The combination of safe hardware and software in things makes them unique, so that you can only unlock accounts when you have the key. OpenSK …

A telescope in Hawaii made the most detailed solar photo to date. Cells of cooler and hotter plasma are visible. We have never seen the sun so detailed. Wednesday evening the first images were presented that were made with the new Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) on the Hawaiian island of Maui. They give a spectacular impression of the …

The WHO chief praised the Chinese authorities’ actions. It has nevertheless been decided to declare an international emergency: PHEIC for short, the English abbreviation for International Emergency in Public Health. “We don’t know what damage this virus could cause in a country with a weaker health system,” he explained at a press conference. Tedros said to have confidence in China’s …

The new coronavirus has surfaced in Germany, reports the Bavarian Ministry of Health Monday evening. The patient would have been placed in isolation and would be fine. 4,515 people worldwide have now been infected and 106 people have died. The man comes from the Starnberg region in the German state. It was only confirmed on Monday evening that he was …

In 2018, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos received a WhatsApp message from a remarkable sender: a 4.4 MB video from none other than Mohammed Bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince. The result? The iPhone of the richest man on earth rapidly leaked an enormous amount of information. According to the British newspaper The Guardian, the crown prince supposedly sent this. Bezos …

A meteorite that struck fifty years ago first like a big fireball and then in countless lumps in southeast Australia, appears to contain the oldest material ever found on earth. According to experts, this is star dust that is probably between five and seven billion years old. That is older than the earth, the sun and our solar system. The …

The Keukenhof in Lisse, South Holland, needs to plant more bulbs to anticipate the erratic temperature peaks and lows in the winter. The number of planted bulbs has risen by around 30 percent in recent years. More different types of flower bulbs are being planted to guarantee visitors colorful fields between mid-March and mid-May. That tells Keukenhof director Bart Siemerink. …

Scientists from the American Universities Space Research Association (USRA) have determined that volcanoes are active on Venus. As far as we know, it is the first other planet in our solar system where such active natural phenomena still occur, write the researchers Friday night in the journal Science Advances. The discovery was made by analyzing thermal images of volcanoes on …

The American biotechnologist Biogen and his Japanese partner Eisai are making rapid progress with their experimental means for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The new test results for aducanumab drug were labeled as a “milestone” by the research panel at a pharmaceutical conference in the United States. A high dose of aducanumab, taken for a long period of time, could …