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Everything you need to know about ‘Centaurus’ the ‘most resistant’ Covid variant yet
VIRUSES have a magical ability to mutate into different more deadly and more infectious versions of themselves. And Covid is no exception. ? NEXU Science Communication 2020 | No re-sale. No redistribution allowed without prior wr The new strain has the ability to evade the immunity provided by current vaccines[/caption]Continue Reading
Boy B withdraws appeal over Ana Kriegel murder conviction
Boy B, one of two teenagers convicted of murdering 14-year-old Ana Kriegel, has withdrawn an appeal against his conviction. The appeal was scheduled to start on Wednesday morning, but at a brief hearing the boy’s lawyers told the three-judge Court of Appeal that their client no longer wishes to goContinue Reading
Biden attacks GOP abortion policies in speech marking 100 days since Supreme Court overturned Roe
US President Joe Biden addresses the nation at the White House in Washington, DC on June 24, 2022 following the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris highlighted the GOP’s push to rollContinue Reading
Opendoor’s iBuyer Model Is a Canary in the Economic Coal Mine
The company is losing huge sums of money on cookie-cutter homes—suggesting a fundamental weakness in the US housing market.Continue Reading
Queen Elizabeth: what we mean when we say we are mourning her for the values she embodied
The feeling and public expression of grief and sorrow following the death of Queen Elizabeth on September 8, 2022 has caught much of the British population off guard. It was inescapable that, at the age of 96, the Queen was nearing the end of her life. As retired palliative careContinue Reading
Boehly said Chelsea women’s facilities ‘unacceptable’, says Lionesses hero Kirby
CHELSEA owner Todd Boehly blasted the facilities of the women’s team, according to Lionesses hero Fran Kirby. Kirby, 29, was part of the England squad which brought the European Championships home last summer and is currently Chelsea’s all-time leading goalscorer. 2 Fran Kirby celebrates with the Euro 2022 trophy overContinue Reading
The WHO has advised against the use of two antibody therapies against COVID – here’s what that means
Sotrovimab and casirivimab-imdevimab are no longer recommended for patients with COVID. ice_blue/Shutterstock New guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO) strongly advises against using the antibody therapies sotrovimab and casirivimab-imdevimab to treat patients with COVID-19. This guidance, published in the British Medical Journal, replaces previous conditional recommendations for the useContinue Reading
Malaria vaccine: the road has been long and tortuous, but we’re getting there
A vaccine candidate, called R21, has been shown to be up to 80% effective at preventing malaria in young children, according to the latest trial results. This follows from a study published in 2021 from the same team at Oxford University which showed that the three-dose vaccine was up toContinue Reading
A fossil baby helped scientists explain how mammals thrived after the dinosaur extinction – new research
An artist's impression of the _Pantolambda bathmodon_ H Sharpe, Author provided Sixty-two million years ago, a mother gave birth to a baby. Overcoming the shock of birth in a matter of minutes, the baby began to explore the world around it. The baby started to suckle from its mother, aContinue Reading
Ukraine war: with Russia bogged down on the battlefield, trouble has flared up again in the Caucasus
Almost two years ago, what is now referred to as the “Second Karabakh War” broke the uneasy truce which had been in effect between Armenia and Azerbaijan since 1994. After 44 days of intense fighting – with thousands of dead on both sides – it ended in a precarious, Russian-mediatedContinue Reading