Private The UK’s foreign secretary Dominic Raab is expected to suspend the country’s extradition treaty with Hong Kong on Monday over China’s moves against the city-state. The extradition treaty means that, if someone in Hong Kong is suspected of a crime in the UK, then the British authorities can ask ... Read More »
British scientists analysing data from a widely-used COVID-19 symptom-tracking app have found there are six distinct types of the disease, each distinguished by a cluster of symptoms. A King’s College London team found that the six types also correlated with levels of severity of infection, and with the likelihood of ... Read More »
Solar Orbiter images shot from between Venus and Mercury orbits show ‘campfires’ in corona The closest ever images of the sun reveal its surface is speckled with “campfires”, miniature versions of the dramatic solar flares visible from Earth. The observations, beamed back from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, which is ... Read More »
A rocket carrying the unmanned probe, known as Al-Amal in Arabic, joins China and US in race to red planet The first Arab space mission to Mars has blasted off aboard a rocket from Japan, with its unmanned probe – called Al-Amal, or Hope – successfully separating about an hour after liftoff. ... Read More »
China has approved an early-stage trial in humans of German firm BioNTech’s experimental coronavirus vaccine, its local partner Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical said on Thursday. The potential vaccine is one of the two most advanced candidates that BioNTech is working on with its partner Pfizer and they received “fast track” status this week from the U.S. Food and Drug ... Read More »
Exclusive: best analysis to date indicates significant increases in infections, hospital admissions and death There is “compelling” evidence that air pollution significantly increases coronavirus infections, hospital admissions and deaths, according to the most detailed and comprehensive analysis to date. The research indicates that a small, single-unit increase in people’s ... Read More »
In the next few weeks, a flotilla of probes will be blasted into space from launch pads round the world and propelled towards one of the solar system’s most mysterious objects: the planet Mars. Within days of each other, spacecraft built by the USA, by China and by the United Arab ... Read More »
Astronomers have spotted strange circular objects, deep in space, through telescopes. The objects “do not seem to correspond to any known type of object”, report the scientists who find them, who do not have any definitive explanation of how they may have formed. So far, four of the objects have ... Read More »
Scientists have found a strange “pulsar” deep in space that could solve some of the universe’s most fundamental mysteries. The discovery could help us understand how dead stars collide and the universe’s expansion, according to the researchers who found it. The pulsar – a neutron star “lighthouse” deep in space ... Read More »
UK neurologists publish details of mildly affected or recovering Covid-19 patients with serious or potentially fatal brain conditions Doctors may be missing signs of serious and potentially fatal brain disorders triggered by coronavirus, as they emerge in mildly affected or recovering patients, scientists have warned. Neurologists are on Wednesday publishing ... Read More »
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