Robin Shattock won’t say it himself – he is a man of modesty, after all – but more people should be paying attention to his vaccine. As the race for a Covid-19 jab intensifies, the team at Imperial College London has somewhat flown under the radar. Headlines have instead been dominated by the fast-moving ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health announced on Monday that 1139 new coronavirus cases were registered in the country during the past 24 hours. The ministry added in its daily report that 10 new deaths were registered in the country, bringing the total number of deaths in Lebanon to 723. LBCI Read More »
Caretaker Information Minister, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, reminded citizens through “Twitter” of the need to abide by the COVID-19 preventive measures, saying: “Attention! Each one of us is exposed to a corona infection without symptoms. The infection can be normal, like 45,000 of cases in Lebanon, but it may ... Read More »
“Congratulations to Lebanon for the creative Waddah Malaeb’s achieving first place in ‘Stars of Science’, the creative scientific program in the Middle East…Let us invest in the capabilities of our youth, our permanent hope in the Lebanon of culture, science, intellect and creativity,” tweeted Caretaker Information Minister, Dr. Manal Abdel ... Read More »
Research on mice taken to the International Space Station (ISS) has found a protein that could help combat ageing and help in the development of drugs to treat age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s and diabetes. A joint study by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) and Tohoku University showed that while the mice were in ... Read More »
Artificial intelligence is able to distinguish between people who have the coronavirus simply by their coughs. The difference between cough from someone with coronavirus and a healthy one is something not discernable to the human ear, but is able to be ‘heard’ by a machine learning algorithm. Researchers from MIT took thousands of samples of ... Read More »
Mysterious, intense blasts of radio energy have been detected from within our own galaxy, astronomers have said. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, last only a fraction of a second but can be 100 million times more powerful than the Sun. Despite their intensity, their origin remains largely unknown. Now astronomers ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday that 1888 new Coronavirus cases were registered in the country during the past 24 hours with 9 more deaths. LBCI Read More »
Tributes paid to fearless reporter described as ‘the greatest journalist of his generation’ Robert Fisk, a veteran Middle East correspondent for The Independent and the most celebrated journalist of his era, has died after an illness. He was 74. Fisk was renowned for his courage in questioning official narratives from governments and ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health announced on Sunday that 1389 new Coronavirus cases were registered in the country during the past 24 hours. The ministry added that 6 new Coronavirus deaths were also registered in Lebanon during the past 24 hours. LBCI Read More »
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