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Researchers have developed a silicon surface covered in nanosized spikes that is 96% effective in impaling and destroying a common virus responsible for causing respiratory illnesses, particularly in infants and young children. The technology could be used to safeguard researchers, health workers and patients from viral spread.Of the four strains of human parainfluenza viruses (HPIVs), HPIV-3 is the most virulent and can lead to bronchiolitis, bronchitis, or pneumonia in infants and young children. Yearly, seasonal…

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Chinese EV maker NIO (NIO) is trending after receiving $2.2 billion in funding from Abu-Dhabi’s CYVN Holdings. NIO’s stock is up over 5% Monday following the investment. NIO stock climbs after $2.2 billion investment With the new investment, CYVN will become a major NIO shareholder. The Abu Dhabi-backed investment company is investing $2.2 billion by subscribing to 294 million newly issued shares. The share repurchase price is $7.50, according to the press release. The news comes after NIO…

For her 17th birthday, Jeramie Naya Vives Osorio’s family showered her with gifts: a dozen pink roses, a stack of Beard Papa‘s cream puffs, a Strawberry Sweet cake from the Korean bakery Tous les Jours and a small silver necklace from Tiffany. Michelle Vives knew her middle daughter — Jer to her friends, Mia to her family — would never wear the necklace. But she wanted Mia to have it all the same.“She loves Tiffany, so every birthday I get her something,” Vives said. “This year I bought her the infinity one” — a silver…

To address the issue of wrong-side driving, the BMC has taken the measure of installing spikes on speed breakers in Mumbai. Although residents welcome the move, it has raised concerns regarding safety. The BMC has placed spike speed breakers on B G Kher Marg in Malabar Hill to deter bikers from using the wrong side of the road. While this is the first time such spikes have been employed in Mumbai, similar installations have been seen in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Also read: 10 DC Design cars & how they look in the REAL…

Naturalist Auke-Florian Hiemstra has seen a lot of bird nests, but none were quite like the one he spotted in a photograph from a patient in a Belgian hospital. This nest, high in a sugar maple in the hospital’s courtyard, was massive—and looked like metal. “It just was this very big ball of metallic, nasty bird spikes,” Hiemstra says. On closer inspection, he realized a Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica) had built the two-foot-wide nest with materials that included some 1,500 spikes of the type cities often use to fend off…

Magpies and crows are using anti-bird spikes collected from buildings to build nests.These long metal rods are intended to discourage birds from hanging around, but some crafty urban avians in Europe have found ways to take advantage of the deterrent."It's actually like a joke," says biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra of Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands, "even for me as a nest researcher, these are the craziest bird nests I've ever seen.Ironically, this first-of-its-kind Dutch study on bird nests made almost…

You've no doubt seen the metal spikes that are placed on the outside of buildings to keep birds from roosting. Well, it has been discovered that magpies and crows are actually using those spikes in their nests – appropriately enough, to keep other birds away.The very ironic use of such a nesting material is the subject of a study recently conducted by scientists from the Netherlands' Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the Natural History Museum Rotterdam.It all began when a patient at an Antwerp hospital spotted a large…