December 2020
Health
Dec 18 2020
“Vaccines Are Coming!”
On December 8, Health Canada approved the first vaccine for COVID-19. Canada is the third country to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, after the U.K. and Bahrain.
“It has been a difficult year, and we are not out of this crisis yet,” said Prime Minister Trudeau. “...
Science
Dec 11 2020
Mock Meat Makes Debut in Singapore
Lab-grown meat was approved for sale for the first time this month. Singapore gave its thumbs up to the chicken nuggets produced by Eat Just Inc.
The cultured nuggets may look and taste like chicken, but this meat never had wings or feet or feathers. It doesn’t come...
History
Dec 04 2020
Digging Up the Past
It’s been an exciting and productive autumn for a team of Egyptian archaeologists. On November 14, Mostafa Waziri, the general director of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, unveiled 100 coffins the team found last month. The archaeologists discovered 59 more in...