Contact tracing is a key strategy for controlling the spread of COVID-19, but a new study finds that delays in COVID-19 testing will significantly hamper this process. The study researchers found that even the best contact-tracing strategy — where all…
The baby girls, Truc Nhi and Dieu Nh, were separated by doctors working at City Children’s Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and are now said to be doing well The twins are very close (Image: Supplied by Sax…
Social media influencers are glamorising the hunting and eating of marmots which carry the highly contagious disease which can kill in 24 hours and is deadlier than coronavirus A 16-year-old boy has been struck down by a suspected new case…
This visualization shows the moon being formed from a collision, which, according to a new study, happened more recently than scientists previously thought. It turns out the moon is a little younger than scientists previously thought — about 85 million…
Recorded specimen of Algyroides nigropunctatus with trifurcated tail. Lizards that lose and regrow their tails can go overboard and grow back more than one tail — and sometimes they sprout as many as six. Those haywire multiple tails appear a…
An experimental COVID-19 vaccine from the biotech company Moderna showed promising results in an early trial of 45 participants, according to the first trial data from the company to be published in a peer-reviewed journal. After receiving two doses of…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued new orders for hospitals to send COVID-19 data straight to the agency, rather than to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which typically compiles the information. The orders,…
More than 30 candidate vaccines for COVID-19 have reached human trials since the pandemic began only months ago. But given that most vaccines take years to develop, how will we know that the first coronavirus vaccine to earn approval is…
Mevlida Lazibi decided to take five-week-old infant Sara during the horror of the Srebrenica massacre 25 years ago – now they’re a family and it was ‘best decision of her life’ Mevlida Lazibi and Sara Hukic have now settled in…
The sickening assault in Bayonee, southwestern France, left 59-year-old Philippe Monguillot with brain damage. He died five days later in hospital on Friday, July 10 Philippe Monguillot’s wife Veronique, pictured with her 58-year-old husband A French bus driver has died…