The world is moving a step closer to ending the coronavirus pandemic, the scientist behind Britain’s first vaccine has declared, as Boris Johnson said he hoped the majority of those most at-risk could be immunised by Easter. Successful trial results for the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine, suggesting it could protect up ...

A decade ago, a band of astronomers set out to investigate one of the oldest questions taunting philosophers, scientists, priests, astronomers, mystics and the rest of the human race: how many more Earths are out there, if any? How many far-flung planets exist that could harbour life as we know it? Are there any other ...

A front-runner coronavirus vaccine developed by drug giant Pfizer and German biotechnology firm BioNTech was more than 90 percent effective at protecting people compared with a placebo saline shot, according to an interim analysis by an independent data monitoring committee that met Sunday. The early look at the ongoing trial provides a decisive initial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Caretaker Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, on Monday submitted to the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers a report detailing the incident that took place on October 28 while Télé Liban press team was covering the border negotiations in Naqoura.   It is to note that the said report ...

Water could be used for humans who travel to the Moon and create permanent lunar base there, as Nasa hopes to   Water has been definitively found on the Moon, Nasa has said, and there are a set of “water traps” that could hold it stably. The research suggests that water could be distributed ...

A new IUCN report finds that an estimated 229,000 tonnes of plastic is leaking into the Mediterranean Sea every year, equivalent to over 500 shipping containers each day. Unless significant measures are taken to address mismanaged waste, the main source of the leakage, this will at least double by 2040. Based ...