NASA has awarded billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s private space company SpaceX a $US2.9 billion ($A3.7 billion) contract to build a spacecraft to take astronauts to the...
The British coronavirus variant first detected in Kent and now dominant in the UK and a number of other countries is more transmissible but does not...
More than half of Australia’s young men are keen to get the COVID-19 jab but young women are wary, researchers have found.The Australian National University has...
The Australian government’s top medical advisory body is set to receive further expert guidance on the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine following investigations into whether it’s linked to...
Medics in Guinea are racing to track down suspected carriers of the Ebola virus after they fled a southeastern town where the country’s first case in...
Up to six cases of a highly transmissible variant of coronavirus first identified in the Brazilian city of Manaus have been detected in Britain for the...
Brazil has surpassed 10 million confirmed coronavirus cases, as a new variant discovered in the Amazon threatens to further ravage a country where inoculations have been...
Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed two new cases of Ebola, including one far from the centre of the outbreak, provincial Health Minister Eugene Nzanzu Salita...
England’s third national COVID-19 lockdown is helping to reduce infections, a study has found, but the prevalence of cases remains high as Prime Minister Boris Johnson...
More than 15 million people in the UK have now had a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed the milestone on Sunday...