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A call for a pan-European commitment to a rapid and lasting reduction in the number of SARS-CoV-2 infections was published in The Lancet by a group of scientists from European countries. Experts warn that failure to act will result in new waves of infection.more

Israeli researchers have found that 99.9 percent can be killed with the help of inexpensive ultraviolet LEDs. viral particles. In their opinion, this way it will be possible to disinfect air, water and various surfaces.more

The new coronavirus variant, which was identified last week and appears to be spreading rapidly in parts of England, was not imported from overseas, but is most likely of native origin, British scientists believe.more

Mars likely has less water in the form of brines - water-salt mixtures that are more resistant to boiling, freezing, and evaporation - than previously thought. Or so says a team of researchers at the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences. more

Despite the lies spread on the Internet, I still believe that more than half of Poles will be able to vaccinate COVID-19 - said cardiologist, lipidologist, epidemiologist of heart and vascular diseases prof. Maciej Banach, director of the Institute of the Polish Mother's Health Center in Łódź.more

Snowy winters could become a thing of the past as climate change affects the UK, Met Office analysis suggests.more

A semi-autonomous disinfecting robot to combat COVID-19 was built at the West Pomeranian University of Technology (ZUT) in Szczecin. The radio-controlled device can, inter alia, spray disinfectant indoors.more

Better grades, discipline in lessons and impressive attendance. This does not translate into knowledge - Polish teachers are alarming about gaps in online education in a survey conducted for "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna".more

The UK has become the first country in the world to approve the Covid-19 Pfizer vaccine.more

A woman in Singapore, who contracted the novel coronavirus in March when she was pregnant, has given birth to a baby with antibodies against the virus. Scientists are considering this as a new clue to decipher how the infection transfers from the mother to the child.more

The mutations undergone by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus are spreading around the world, but they don't make it more contagious, according to a study by French and British scientists published yesterday.more

There are grounds to believe that vaccination against the coronavirus will provide at least one year of protection, believes Prof. Andrew Pollard, head of the team at the University of Oxford, who together with AstraZeneca created the British vaccine.more

Lockdown and quarantine due to the pandemic changed the dream of Italians, and often worsened its quality as well - these are the results of research conducted at the University of Parma. There have been changes in the times of getting up and falling asleep. Many people also sleep longer during the day. more

Stanford University, Elsevier publishing house and SciTech Strategies, published a list of 2 percent of scientists whose works are most cited in the scientific literature. This group included 726 scientists from Poland.more

Wearing masks is not a panacea, but if 95 percent people did, lockdowns would not be necessary, said Dr. Henri Kluge, Regional Director of the World Health Organization in Europe. Lockdown should be the "last resort" for governments, he added.more

24-year-old Michał Tarnowski received the Aspen Central Europe Leadership Award 2020. It's the first time a person from Poland was granted this honor.more

A nasal spray purportedly capable of preventing infection from coronavirus, as well as stopping people from infecting others, has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham.more

The Oxford coronavirus vaccine shows a strong immune response in adults in their 60s and 70s, raising hopes that it can protect age groups most at risk from the virus. Researchers say the Lancet phase two findings, based on 560 healthy adult volunteers, are "encouraging". more

According to a new study, immunity to coronavirus might last years or even decades. The data indicates that most people who were infected with the virus and then recovered since the global pandemic started over eight months ago still hold immunity to the virus.more

Those who walk pet dogs may have an increased chance of catching coronavirus by 78%, according to a study.more

The new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is changing up to 100 times less than HIV, which gives hope that effective vaccines will be developed - such information was provided by Maria Rosaria Capobianchi from the Spallanzani infectious disease hospital in Rome.more

Preliminary results of clinical trials of the coronavirus vaccine from the US company Moderna showed an effectiveness of 94.5%. - the giant informed today. There were also no significant concerns regarding the safety of the measure.more

When used to treat depression, fluvoxamine appears to prevent severe COVID-19, which could reduce the burden on doctors and hospitals, reports the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).more

New scientific data show that psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression and insomnia may develop for the first time in some patients after contracting COVID-19.more

Lockdown was announced yesterday by the authors of Collins' dictionary as the word of the year 2020, which is the result of a sharp increase in its use during the coronavirus pandemic. Several other words related to the pandemic are also highlighted.more