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A clinic doctor collects sample for coronavirus testing from motorcyclist at a Covid-19 screening facility at Clinic Ajwa near a mural depicting medical frontlines in Shah Alam, Selangor state, Malaysia, on Saturday. Photograph: AP Photo/Vincent Thian
What we know now about where coronavirus came from
  • World
  • December 13, 2020, 14:20

Officials have learned a lot since last winter when a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown origin was reported in China Maria van Kerkhove was (...)

A team of experts at the University of Oxford are working to develop a vaccine that could prevent people from getting Covid-19. Photograph: Sean Elias/PA Wire
Coronavirus: Early vaccines may help but not halt the pandemic

There’s enormous pressure on authorities to solve the Covid-19 pandemic. A vaccine is one potential solution. In July, US president Donald Trump toure(...)

Rupert Murdoch: between them, Trump and Murdoch have helped to make the US the epicentre of the pandemic. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Fintan O’Toole: Rupert Murdoch is a super-spreader of ignorance on coronavirus

The comparison of the coronavirus crisis to a war is worse than useless. But it does prompt a question: if this were a war, who should be put on trial(...)

Research found that only certain foods triggers this snoozing response, with protein-rich foods and salty foods both encouraging a “food coma”, but not sweet foods. Photograph: Getty Images
Scientists discover why we love a snooze after dinner

Fruit flies that eat too much have helped scientists to understand why we tend to fall asleep after a big meal. Millions of people celebrating Thanksg(...)

The flu virus evades treatment because of frequent mutations which render older vaccines obsolete.
Scientists one step closer to single flu vaccination

Scientists have taken a step closer to developing a single influenza vaccination that can protect against any form of the fast changing and dangerous (...)

Paul Kenny: “If you work hard and do good work, then it seems that you are limited only by your own imagination. ”
Dubliner getting ahead with neuroscience in Florida

What makes an addiction so addictive? And could eating junk food light up the same reward pathways in the brain that jump into action when a pe(...)