On March 18th, 2021 with 130 comments
A digital certificate to kick-start foreign travel should be given to citizens across the EU "without discrimination," officials say. From a report: The aim is...
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On March 17th, 2021 with 340 comments
A whole list of countries -- including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Latvia -- have suspended dosing of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine over reports...
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On December 9th, 2020 with 40 comments
The European Medicines Agency (EMA), the EU regulatory body in charge of approving COVID-19 vaccines, said today it was the victim of a cyber-attack. From a...
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On October 31st, 2020 with 305 comments
Europe "now accounts for 46% of global coronavirus cases," reports ABC News, "and nearly a third of total related deaths."
Dr. Jean-Francois Delfraissy, a...
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On September 19th, 2020 with 15 comments
"Earlier this week, scientists announced the discovery of phosphine on Venus, a potential signature of life. Now, in an amazing coincidence, a European and...
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On August 25th, 2020 with 69 comments
Two patients were reinfected with the coronavirus in Europe, according to local broadcasters who confirmed the incidents with virologists. The Hill reports: ...
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On July 26th, 2020 with 13 comments
"A European and NASA spacecraft has snapped the closest pictures ever taken of the sun," reports the Associated Press, "revealing countless little 'campfires"...
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On July 6th, 2020 with 84 comments
Tesla is building mobile molecule printers to produce a potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed in Germany by CureVac, reports Reuters:
CureVac, an...
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On June 27th, 2020 with 265 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader hankwang writes: The New York Times has an article on how the transmission of Covid-19 by seemingly healthy individuals was...
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On June 27th, 2020 with 382 comments
Sweden's population is not quite twice the size of Norway's — yet Sweden has reported 21 times as many deaths from Covid-19, prompting many countries to...
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On June 21st, 2020 with 256 comments
An anonymous reader quotes The Washington Post:
In the global race for a coronavirus vaccine, more than 100 labs, universities and drug companies have started...
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On June 7th, 2020 with 112 comments
"SpaceX may be best known for revolutionizing rocket launches with its reusable rockets..." writes Digital Trends, but now, "Europe wants to get in on the...
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On May 29th, 2020 with 152 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Greenhouse gas emissions in the EU continued their fall in 2018, the latest year for which comprehensive...
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On May 23rd, 2020 with 389 comments
Sweden's death rate per million (376) "is far in advance of Norway's (44), Denmark's (96) and Finland's (55) — countries with similar welfare systems and...
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On May 10th, 2020 with 14 comments
"France is integrating new AI tools into security cameras in the Paris metro system to check whether passengers are wearing face masks," reports the Verge:
The...
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On May 3rd, 2020 with 324 comments
Global health officials and diplomats are "alarmed" by America's "apparent lack of interest in cooperation" on international efforts for a vaccine against...
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On April 26th, 2020 with 71 comments
"Germany changed course on Sunday over which type of smartphone technology it wanted to use to trace coronavirus infections," reports Reuters, "backing an...
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On March 17th, 2020 with 87 comments
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Tuesday that European Union member nations will close EU's external borders for 30 days to slow the spread of the...
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On March 13th, 2020 with 195 comments
Europe has become the new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic as cases in China slow and the deadly coronavirus runs through Italy and nearby countries, World...
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On January 19th, 2020 with 83 comments
"European researchers are working on a system that can churn out breathable oxygen from simulated samples of moon dust," reports Gizmodo:
"Being able to...
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On November 18th, 2019 with 130 comments
An anonymous reader quotes CNN:
Germany's parliament has voted to make measles vaccinations compulsory for children, with parents who fail to immunize their...
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On September 14th, 2019 with 72 comments
schwit1 shared this article from Space.com (which includes a really cool video):
The European launch provider Arianespace -- best known as the manufacturer of...
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On May 1st, 2019 with 65 comments
Analysis of 30 leading institutions found that just 17% of study results had been posted online as required by EU rules. From a report: Many of Europe's major...
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On September 4th, 2018 with 123 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Science Magazine: Frustrated with the slow transition toward open access (OA) in scientific publishing, 11 national...
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On July 30th, 2018 with 100 comments
Okian Warrior shares a report from Science Magazine: Hopes for an easier regulatory road for genetic engineering in European agriculture were dashed by the...
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On April 27th, 2018 with 130 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The European Union will ban the world's most widely used insecticides from all fields due to the serious...
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On December 10th, 2017 with 71 comments
Part of Einstein's theory of general relativity posits that gravity equals inertial mass -- and for the first time in 10 years, there's new evidence that he's...
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On October 5th, 2017 with 103 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: About three quarters of all honey worldwide is contaminated with pesticides known to harm bees, according...
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On July 31st, 2017 with 177 comments
Remember when NASA visited an asteroid with $10 quintillion worth of minerals? Now the lucrative asteroid-mining industry is being pursued by "the European...
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On June 23rd, 2017 with 49 comments
The European Space Agency has approved the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission designed to study gravitational waves in space. The spacecraft is slated...
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