A Chinese scientist linked to the spy balloon that tracked across the United States last week has also played a crucial role in Beijing’s near-space programme. Back in 2017, Wu Zhe launched an airship that reached 65,000ft and two years later he
The world should “calm down” about the possibility of new COVID-19 variants circulating in China, leading Chinese scientist George Gao said. A paper by Gao and colleagues published in the Lancet medical journal on Wednesday showed that no new variants had emerged
Coronavirus cases are set to see another peak in January, epidemiological modelling has indicated. Neuroscientist and epidemiological modelling expert Professor Karl Friston of University College London told Express.co.uk that the peak will be “very substantial” — although not as high as the