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Nasa's Perseverance rover is bearing down on Mars

Nasa rover bearing down on Mars

The US space agency\’s Perseverance rover is now just three weeks from arriving at Mars. The robot\’s current distance to the Red Planet is still some 4.5 million km (3 million miles), but that gap is closing at a rapid rate. The biggest, most sophisticated vehicle ever sent to land on another planet, the Nasa robot is

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Pakistan approves Oxford University's AstraZeneca vaccine

AstraZeneca vaccine approved for emergency use in Pakistan

The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) on Saturday authorised the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine shot for emergency use in Pakistan, making it the first vaccine get local approval, dawn.com reported. “Drap granted emergency use authorisation to AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine,” Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Healh Dr Faisal Sultan told Reuters. The country has also pre-booked

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Pandemic could mark ‘turning point’ for Chinese science

Pandemic could mark ‘turning point’ for Chinese science

On 2 Jan 2020, a group of clinician-researchers at the Jinyintan Hospital here, along with colleagues at other institutions, launched a study of 41 patients suffering from a new, atypical pneumonia. The team assembled clinical data, laboratory results, and chest x-rays; tracked the production of immune system molecules called cytokines; and noted the use of

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