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Doctor Who aliens give their name to newly discovered wasps | Science & Tech News
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Fourteen newly discovered species of wasps have been named after the villainous Daleks from Doctor Who. The insects were given the genus by London‘s Natural History Museum to mark the show’s 60th anniversary. Another doctor, the museum’s scientific associate John Noyes, said naming them after the aliens was a “a bit of fun”, having been…
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Bird flu spillover ‘concerning’, doctor warns – as virus in girl who died had mutations making it better adapted to humans | World News
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The bird flu virus isolated from a girl who died from the disease had mutations that made it better adapted to human cells, Sky News has learned. The 11-year-old is believed to have been infected by poultry kept by her family in Prey Veng province, in the south of Cambodia. Her father also tested positive…