Review on mucormycosis – A gloom epoch

German gloom on budget prospects

Thousands of German researchers including five Nobel laureates have signed an open letter of protest against the proposed freeze of research funding. Michael Gross reports.

Primate gloom

The first comprehensive review in five years of the world's more than 600 species of primate found that almost 50 per cent are in danger of becoming extinct, according to the criteria of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Announced at the International Primatology Congress in Edinburgh earlier this month, the report by the world's leading p...

Cosmology , Doom , and Gloom

Mucormycosis: A Lethal Phenomenon in COVID-19 Patients: A Review of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has seriously spread worldwide. One of the problems of COVID-19 patients is co-infection with other microbial infections such as fungal infections that are severely life-threatening. Mucormycosis, one of these opportunistic fungal diseases that is mistakenly known as black fungal disease, has been reported in Iran and the world. This non-systematic review is ...

Australia's bushfire gloom

After ten consecutive years of drought, the last three severe and this current summer breaking almost all records for high temperatures and low rainfall, Australia is suffering bushfires of unprecedented intensity. A fire danger rating of 50 is extreme, 100 uncontrollable: the fire danger rating on February 6 was 180, and some reports have it as high as 400 on the next day, which is being calle...