Compared with adults, children and adolescents are less sensitive to the sweet taste and need 40 percent more sucrose in a solution for them to detect the taste of suga
England recorded the highest level of excess mortality in Europe amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a report Thursday. Albeit not seeing the "highest p
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government Thursday rebutted a report on Hong Kong by the European Union (EU) as unfounded, and called on EU member
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton took his second win of the 2020 Formula 1 season, and also his eighth victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday. With a time of one hour 36 minutes and 12.7473 se
Capturing a direct image of a star with multiple planets is extremely rare, and had never been done with a star like our own.
The discovery of coronae on the surface of the planet could challenge the assumption that Venus is dormant.
Plum, the London and Athens-based fintech that offers a ‘smart’ money management app to help you improve your “financial resilience,” has raised a further $10 million in fundin
China's uncompromising method to tackling the coronavirus pandemic is paying dividends, as a raft of survey information showed last week that financial exercise is gathering momentum in the country,
More than 129,000 people who tested positive for the virus in the US have died - the highest number of fatalities in any country.
05:54 Large gatherings and sporting events that went ahead before lockdown are thought to have caused local spikes in coronavirus infection.However, recent images of busy beaches and B
A nurse treats a COVID-19 patient at an isolation ward in Ditan Hospital in Beijing, capital of China, June 19, 2020.(Xinhua/Peng Ziyang) BEIJING, June 22 (Xinhua) -- C
Zimbabwe’s health minister was expected to appear in court on Saturday to face allegations of illegally awarding a multi-million-dollar contract for COVID-19 testing ki
A new genetic analysis of COVID-19 patients suggests that blood type might influence whether someone develops severe COVID-19, according to a latest study published in The New England Journal of Medi
Most Americans do not trust social media companies to make the right decisions about what should be allowed on their platforms, but trust the government even less to make those choices, according
Two business-to-business marketing companies are teaming up, with Demandbase acquiring Engagio.Both companies focus on account-based marketing (ABM), an approach where marketing and sales coordinate t
People signing a petition in support of the national security legislation pose for a photo at a street stand in Hong Kong, south China, May 29, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Shen)Hong Kong is an inalienable part
A study conducted by the University of California, Berkeley shows that U.S. COVID-19 patients' probabilities of ICU admission, long hospital stay, and mortality were identified to be high.The find