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The National Hurricane Center reports that Erin has become a Category 3 hurricane in the Caribbean and is expected to strengthen further later in the day.

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It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently...

The US president had put pressure on the pharmaceutical industry to make drugs cheaper for Americans

mRNA drugs might be able to protect against a huge range of viruses by turning on key parts of our innate defences against infection