It has been one month since Sean Connery died. The “James Bond” icon had been “unwell for some time” before passing away peacefully in his sleep at his Bahamas home on Oct. 31, but a cause of death was not made known at the time. However, TMZ has revealed that Connery...
DARIA NICOLODI - an Italian screenwriter and actress famed for her role in Deep Red - has died at the age of 70. Daria Nicolodi's death was confirmed by her daughter Asia Argento today. The cause of the Italian actress' death has not been disclosed. Fellow actress Asia Argento penned a...
An almost perfectly preserved whale skeleton thought to be between 3,000 and 5,000 years old has been discovered in Thailand. The bones were found in early November some 12km (7.5 miles) off the coast just to the west of Bangkok. More than 80% of the skeleton has been discovered, including a...
Federal health officials say Canada now has purchase agreements with seven COVID-19 vaccine producers. Deputy Chief Public Health Officer Doctor Howard Njoo says most are in the final stages of testing before they can go to Health Canada for approval. Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate could be approved in Canada next month. Canada...
For this proof-of-principle study, researchers at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health (GOS ICH) and the UCL Cancer Institute modified the patient’s own T-cells (a type of immune cell), equipping them to recognise and kill neuroblastoma tumour cells. Twelve children with relapsed or refractory (where the disease...
Provincial health officials say they are working on British Columbia's plan to handle COVID-19 vaccines. Dr. Bonnie Henry, the provincial health officer, says Dr. Ross Brown of Vancouver Coastal Health will join the group working to organize the logistics around the distribution of vaccines. B.C. recorded another 13 deaths and 738...
Nova Scotia is reporting 14 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the province's total active cases to 114. Twelve of the new cases are in the central health zone, with one case each in the northern and western zones. Nova Scotia Health Authority labs completed 2,253 tests Wednesday. An additional 856...
A Cretaceous-age, crow-sized bird from Madagascar would have sliced its way through the air wielding a large, blade-like beak and offers important new insights on the evolution of face and beak shape in the Mesozoic forerunners of modern birds. An international team of researchers led by Ohio University professor...
PlayStation 5 (PS5) has been on sale in the US since 12 November but it didn't take long to sell out due to the number of pre-orders and the expectations generated by the new generation. There are two versions of the new Sony console: a model with a disc-reader...
Ottawa Public Health is reporting that 23 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19, a slight increase over the day before, but still well below the province's hot spots in the GTA. However, four more people in Ottawa have lost their lives to the coronavirus. Health Minister Christine...