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Moderna Vaccine: New vaccine breakthrough lifts global hope against pandemic

Concerns of a resurgence also remain in parts of the world that have largely brought their caseloads under control.

Nov 17, 2020

By AFP bureaus

Coronavirus vaccine breakthrough: Moderna's Covid vaccine nearly 95% effective

It is not yet clear how long lasting the protection will be from either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines, nor how well they work for the elderly, the age-group at highest risk from Covid-19.

Nov 17, 2020

By Issam Ahmed

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This image shows some of the hieroglyphs and pictures depicted on the sarcophagus

Mummies discovered in a trove of over 100 sarcophagi in Saqqara, Egypt

Said to be the largest find this year, they were found in three burial shafts at depths reaching down to 12 metres in the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo

Nov 16, 2020

By Nina Siena

Egypt

A mobile base station mounted on the side of a hill

Man allergic to electricity becomes prisoner in his own home

About four percent of Britons claim to suffer from this EMF sensitivity but to this day, the reality of this condition remains on the table for debate.

Nov 16, 2020

By Nina Siena

Study finds cheap daily combo pill that promises to lower heart risk

The pill contains three blood pressure medicines, which include ramipril, atenolol, and hydrochlorothiazide, and statin, a cholesterol-lowering medicine.

Nov 16, 2020

By Snow Digon

Breathe your way out of alcoholism with help of new device

Through safely hyperventilating, the volunteer was able to clear alcohol from his system three times faster than the one who breathed normally.

Nov 16, 2020

By Snow Digon

Back to life! Hiker's heart stops during mountain rescue but experiences amazing recovery

Knapinski died while he was in the emergency room but doctors saw it as an opportunity to bypass his heart and lungs.

Nov 16, 2020

By Snow Digon

Medical staff treats coronavirus patients

COVID-19: Experts attempt to predict spread of SARS-CoV-2 via smartphone location data

It will gather data from approximately 98 million Americans that reside in 10 major cities to analyse which areas are prone to another outbreak.

Nov 16, 2020

By John Diente

SpaceX launches four astronauts to ISS

US President-elect Joe Biden hailed the launch on Twitter as a "testament to the power of science.

Nov 16, 2020

By Issam Ahmed and Ivan Couronne

NASA

Feuding in Downing Street as UK faces Covid, Brexit challenges

Labour shadow health minister Jonathan Ashworth tweeted that as Britain's death toll from coronavirus reached 50,000, "the preoccupation of Boris Johnson is his squabbling spin doctors."

Nov 16, 2020

By AFP News

United Kingdom England

Coronavirus latest: Mexico surpasses 1 million Covid cases

The death toll meanwhile reached 98,259, including 635 registered over the past day.

Nov 15, 2020

By AFP News

Mexico

NBA Covid response: Golden State Warriors submit proposal to open arena to fans

The Warriors have set aside 30 million dollars (22.750 million GBP) to test every fan.

Nov 14, 2020

By Christine Caparras

NASA: Elon Musk to quarantine during SpaceX launch Sunday as he may have Covid-19

There is no news if Elon Musk had been planning to attend the SpaceX NASA launch in Florida on Sunday.

Nov 14, 2020

By Barnali Pal Sinha

NASA Twitter

SpaceX-NASA launch postponed to Sunday due to weather

Sunday's launch begins the first of what the US hopes will become routine missions for SpaceX following a successful test flight in late spring.

Nov 14, 2020

By AFP News

NASA

Trust in vaccines vital to halting pandemic: WHO

Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech announced Monday that their prospective vaccine had proven 90 percent effective in preventing Covid-19 infections.

Nov 14, 2020

By AFP News