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Ireland temporarily suspends Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccine

Mar 15, 2021

Three health workers in Norway who had recently received the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine were being treated in hospital for bleeding, blood clots and a low count of blood platelets, its...

Mental health pilot program expands to more primary schools

Mar 15, 2021

Twenty six schools, across metropolitan and regional north and south west Victoria, will have a child mental health and wellbeing co-ordinator embedded in the school to improve care pathways for...

3 Questions: Claude Grunitzky MBA '12 on launching TRUE Africa University

Mar 15, 2021

TRUE Africa was launched as a news and culture website in 2015. The pandemic, which led to the closure of many universities in Africa, gave a sense of urgency to...

Third Covid wave sweeps across EU and forces new restrictions

Mar 14, 2021

A third wave of the Covid pandemic is now advancing swiftly across much of Europe. As a result, many nations – bogged down by sluggish vaccination campaigns – are witnessing...

Astronomers find supermassive black hole on the move

Mar 14, 2021

Scientists have long theorized that supermassive black holes can wander through space — but catching them in the act has proven difficult. Now, researchers at the Center for Astrophysics |...

Yo-yos offer a first foray into manufacturing at scale

Mar 14, 2021

These yo-yos are the creation of mechanical engineering students in class 2.008 (Design and Manufacturing II) . In the class, students learn about the manufacturing processes used for everyday products...

Going interstellar with a sun-skirting probe

Mar 13, 2021

That's the counterintuitive concept at the heart of the Interstellar Probe mission in development at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, in collaboration with NASA. The mission's primary goal is...

Lyme selfies

Mar 13, 2021

His phone is still pinging, but Aucott, director of the Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center, wants to see the photos—because he knows that untreated Lyme disease can portend debilitating...

German COVID cases could revisit December peak in April

Mar 13, 2021

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases predicted that the number of daily reported cases could exceed 30,000 in the 14th week of the year starting April 12. "An...

'Covid is taking over': Brazil plunges into deadliest chapter of its epidemic

Mar 13, 2021

© Provided by The Guardian Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the media in Brasília, Brazil, on 10 March. © Provided by The Guardian Workers bury a person who died with Covid...