A new type of coronavirus, which appears to be more transmissible, has been found in South Africa and is being blamed for a new surge in COVID-19 cases there. Although it has emerged independently, it has shown a similar transformation Found a new variant in the United Kingdom Scientists say …
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LONDON (AP) – Tristan da Cunha, an island with 245 permanent residents, is being built to protect endangered rockhopper penguins, yellow-nosed albatrosses and other wildlife in the South Atlantic, three times the size of the United Kingdom. . The British Foreign Office, which calls itself the most remote island on …
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A two-million-year-old skull of a distant human cousin with huge teeth has been found in archaeological excavations in the South African cave system led by Australian Ndale an Australia. Researchers at La Trobe University say the discovery is the oldest known and most well-preserved example of a small-brained hominin named …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The branches of a well-built plant-eating mammal that inhabited Antarctica 250 million years ago provide the oldest known evidence that animals deployed in winter-like states to survive lean periods such as polar winters. The interpretation of an artist shows the mammalian relative Lystrosaurus during the Triassic period …
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Aug 17 (Reuters) – US drug developer Novavax Inc said on Monday that it is launching a mid-term study of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine in South Africa as the country experiences an increase in coronavirus cases. The Phase 2b trial of NVX-CoV2373 will be performed on approximately 2,665 healthy adults …
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