by admin 1 | Sep 11, 2020 | News
AstraZeneca’s pause of an experimental vaccine for the coronavirus after the illness of a participant is a “wake-up call” but should not discourage researchers, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) chief scientist said on Thursday. “This...
by admin 1 | Sep 11, 2020 | News
Deadly wildfires in heavily populated northwest Oregon were growing, with hundreds of thousands of people told to flee encroaching flames while residents to the south tearfully assessed their losses. People evacuated statewide because of fires had climbed to an...
by admin 1 | Sep 11, 2020 | News
More than a dozen 2,500-year-old sealed Egyptian coffins have been found 10 metres down an ancient burial well. The coffins were found stacked atop one another in the desert necropolis of Saqqara and have been so well preserved the intricate painting on the exteriors...
by admin 1 | Sep 11, 2020 | Food, News
Black Americans are almost three times as likely to be vegan than white Americans. Why is this alternative diet so popular? When Louis Hunter woke up on the morning of 31 May he didn’t know what to do. His hometown of Minneapolis was in disarray after a week of...
by admin 1 | Sep 11, 2020 | News
When firefighters arrived at Austin Parra’s home on January 12, 2017, they could see smoke and the charred remnants of an office chair outside. Parra, then 20, had been transported to the hospital. His mother explained to firefighters that her son’s chair...
by admin 1 | Sep 10, 2020 | Food, News
Four products touted to have slimming effects and sold online have been found to contain “potent ingredients” – including a banned substance and a laxative – which could cause “serious adverse effects” in consumers, the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) said in a...