Month: January 2021

The EU should consider legal means to secure vaccine doses promised by drug companies including AstraZeneca, the president of the European Council has said. Charles Michel made the comments in a letter as Brussels and AstraZeneca are embroiled in an escalating row over the EU’s slow start to its inoculation programme. AstraZeneca announced it would
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Apple and Facebook are on course for a series of clashes as court cases and technological developments pit their business models against each other. The technology industry will be reshaped in the winner’s image. Despite the looming threat of antitrust action from competition regulators in both the European Union and the United States, both companies
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Superstitions about the moon have for centuries inspired humanity to blame it for our moods, sanity, and even natural disasters – but new research has indicated it actually does have an impact on our sleep. According to a scientific paper published in Science Advances, researchers found that human sleep cycles oscillate during the lunar cycle
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Bats that lived in a Cambodian cave in 2010 carried a pathogen that is “nearly identical” to the virus that causes COVID-19, scientists have discovered. Samples the scientists tested have been stored in a freezer at the Pasteur Institute in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, since December 2010 following a study by the Natural History Museum in
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A pop-up urban airport which will showcase so-called “flying cars” and drones is to be opened in Coventry, with government support for programmes that tackle road congestion and pollution. As shown by slick computer generated marketing imagery, the zero-emission hub, called Air One, will be located close to the Ricoh Arena in the north of
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US financial market regulators are to review the extraordinary rallies in the shares of struggling gaming retailer Gamestop, part-driven by participants of an investor forum on Reddit. The Securities and Exchange Commission said it was working with fellow regulators to “assess the situation and review the activities of regulated entities, financial intermediaries, and other market
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A Tory MP who urged anti-vaccination campaigners to keep going with their fight against coronavirus restrictions and told them NHS capacity figures were being “manipulated” is “wrong” and “completely out of order”, a senior minister has said. Michael Gove told Sky News that Sir Desmond Swayne should apologise and retract his comments. However, the Cabinet
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