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The peer-reviewed work in the Lancet medical journal confirms the vaccine is 'safe and protects'.

Children who come into contact with the law are some of the most vulnerable and marginalised in society. This is why the UK’s low age of criminal responsibility is such a serious concern

Buffy The Vampire Slayer's reboot should explore the relationship between past and present Slayers in order to better represent the problems of today.

Britain first western nation to begin mass vaccinations. Colorado's first gentleman Marlon Reis hospitalized. White House vaccine summit. COVID news.

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As many seniors face down the winter holidays alone, it may be tempting to give them a companion robot as a gift.

The smallest Nissan SUV goes big on both looks and value.

1. Source -- Pittsburgh Steelers LB Robert Spillane expected to miss time with knee injury  ESPN
2. Washington Football Team vs. Steelers Week 13 Highlights | NFL 2020  NFL
3. Two Goods and a Bad: Can the Steelers Simply Stop Running the Ball?  Sports Illustrated
4. Pittsburgh Steelers no longer undefeated after blowing 14-point lead to Washington Football Team  ESPN
5. Apparently savvy clock move by Alex Smith confuses refs, leads to Washington FG in upset of Steelers  Yahoo... Читать дальше...

A video showing a simulation of someone sneezing near to another person wearing a face shield has revealed exactly how much protection such face covers can offer – and the answer is, not much.

1. Biden announces more picks for key cabinet roles - find out who his choices are and why they matter  Sky News
2. Xavier Becerra: right vows to block Joe Biden's health secretary  The Times
3. Biden says he will sign federal mask mandate as he lays out 100-day plan to fight pandemic  The Independent
4. The Biden Opportunity and How to Blow It  The New York Times
5. Sally Pipes: For HHS post Biden taps ObamaCare 's lead defender – don't expect him to be a moderate  Fox News
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Showtime’s limited series “The Good Lord Bird,” based on James McBride‘s period novel of the same name, tells the story of John Brown (Ethan Hawke), a real-life abolitionist who wanted to end slavery at all costs. As costume designer Amy Andrews-Harrell explains to Gold Derby in our TV Costume Designers Panel (watch above), she used […]

The ever-outrageous trike is getting key transmission upgrades, plus a louder stereo and dancing lights. Your neighbors are gonna love you.

Protecting judges is essential to our families, and our democracy.

Hollywood’s blockbusters such as X-men, Gattaca, and Jurassic World have explored the intriguing concept of “germline genome editing” – a biomolecular technique that can alter the DNA of sperm, eggs, or embryos. If you remove a gene that causes a certain disease in an embryo, not only will the baby be free of the disease when born – so will its descendants. The technique is, however, controversial – we can’t be sure how a child with an altered genome will develop over a lifetime. But with the COVID-19... Читать дальше...

Nepal had started re-measuring the height of Everest from 2017 and completed it last year.

OXFORD’S coronavirus vaccine is up to 90 per cent effective when a half dose is given by a full dose, new data has confirmed. Interim results from pooled studies show the vaccine was 70.4 per cent effective, on average, in preventing Covid-19 after two doses were given. For people given two full doses of the […]

KIM STANLEY ROBINSON, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of The Ministry for the Future (Orbit, October 6, 2020) and 20 previous novels, talks with Everett Hamner, whose chapter about Robinson’s fiction just appeared in The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science (2020). ¤ EVERETT HAMNER: The Ministry for the Future imagines […]

Pokémon Go's next big online event will take place on February 20 as the company celebrates the game's fifth anniversary.

Plagued by guilt, anger and regrets, those still alive in the hardest hit place in Italy, and perhaps the world, grapple to understand how the virus has changed them. Every Monday night in the northern ...

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Anthony Joshua will defend his unified heavyweight world titles on Saturday night, with Kubrat Pulev the man tasked with forcing an upset.

Update December 8th, 5:45PM ET: SpaceX counted all the way down to launch on Tuesday afternoon, but at 1.3 seconds to liftoff, the Raptor engines initiated an abort and the Starship prototype didn’t take flight. The company will provide updates about its next launch opportunity on its Twitter account.

1. Dr Hilary Jones warns of Covid-19 third wave on Good Morning Britain ahead of Christmas rules  Chronicle Live
2. As UK prepares to roll out COVID-19 vaccines, scepticism remains  Yahoo News UK
3. First Covid-19 vaccinations begin in Scotland  The Independent
4. No doubt over safety of Covid vaccine, says head of UK regulator  LBC
5. COVID-19: Who are those missing out on the vaccine rollout?  Sky News
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Oxford Covid vaccine hoped to be in use 'shortly' but it's less effective than Pfizer's  Mirror OnlineView Full coverage on Google News

2020 has been quite the tumultuous year, from the COVID-19 pandemic to an unprecedented wildfire and hurricane season and the reckoning for racial justice.

This is one pandemic change that should become permanent.