Science News Roundup: Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine safe; Hi-tech imaging sheds light on Holy Sepulchre wall crosses and more


Devdiscourse News Desk | Updated: 02-04-2021 18:34 IST | Created: 02-04-2021 18:29 IST
Science News Roundup: Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine safe; Hi-tech imaging sheds light on Holy Sepulchre wall crosses and more
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Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine safe, effective in adolescents; arthritis drug may reduce effect of some vaccines

The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine safe, effective in adolescents Graffiti or homage?

Hi-tech imaging sheds light on Holy Sepulchre wall crosses

Crosses etched in mysterious abundance across the walls of Christianity's most sacred church were long assumed to be graffiti, but they may be the work of mediaeval masons paid to carve them by pilgrims, research suggests. Revered in Christian tradition as the site of Jesus’s crucifixion and burial, Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre usually bustles with worshippers and clergy. That has made the study of the sacred markings difficult.

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