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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian scientists praised the results of their first clinical trial of a possible coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday, saying it had been shown to be safe and that the volunteers had developed an immune response. FILE PHOTO: A computer image created by Nexu Science Communication in conjunction with …

The technology CEO who was beheaded and dismembered in his Lower East Side apartment was a rising businessman, who loved his adoptive home in New York City. Born in Saudi Arabia to a Bangladeshi family, Fahim Saleh moved before his family finally settled in Rochester, New York, according to a …

Cross section of the still image showing the impact (box) and consequences (main image) of a 3D simulation of a giant planetary impact using 100 million particles, colored by their internal energy, similar to their temperature. Credit: Dr. Jacob Kegerreis, University of Durham. According to new research, the giant impacts …

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the researchers found preliminary evidence suggesting that people’s blood type could be a major risk factor, both from being infected with the virus and becoming dangerously ill. But in recent months, after observing thousands of additional Covid-19 patients, scientists report a much weaker link to …

Another 44,000 people in the country have also used the pandemic as an opportunity to quit smoking, according to the analysis by the organization Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and University College London (UCL), which used a YouGov survey of more than 10,000 people as the basis for their …