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On Tuesday, the Chief of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issued a statement saying that the Omicron variant is spreading at an unprecedented rate. The Omicron variant was…

Cue in Xenobots 3.0. The world’s first living microbots capable of producing offspring of their own through a method known as “kinetic replication”. Xenobots were first created in 2020 by…

A generation-defining NASA mission allowed us to peek into space effectively than ever before 31 years ago. The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit in February 1990, and…

India cyclone death toll jumps as navy searches for dozens missing By Sam Panthaky Mahuva, India (AFP) May 19, 2021 The number of fatalities from a major cyclone that slammed into India jumped to at least 91 on Wednesday as the navy searched for 49 people still missing, adding to the country’s woes as it…

A Chinese-funded tax-free enclave billed as Sri Lanka’s answer to Dubai and Singapore cleared the final legal hurdle Tuesday as the Supreme Court in Colombo ruled it could go ahead with only minor tweaks. The largest single foreign investment in Sri Lanka is one of several massive Asian infrastructure projects funded by China as Beijing…

Tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea: Why are they increasing? By Glenda KWEK New hi (AFP) May 17, 2021 A powerful cyclonic system, Tauktae, is expected to make landfall in the Indian state of Gujarat late Monday after barrelling up the Arabian Sea in the Indian Ocean. It is the equivalent of a Category 3…

A Bengal tiger last seen a week ago roaming the lawns of suburban Houston and terrifying locals has been found unharmed and was moved Sunday to an animal sanctuary, police said. “We got him, and he’s healthy,” Houston police commander Ron Borza was seen saying in a video. The animal, named India, had been in…

At least 18 elephants are suspected to have been killed by lightning in northeastern India, officials said Thursday as they launched a probe into the incident. Forest officials and a local lawmaker, Jitu Goswami, told AFP they believed the pachyderms died after lightning struck a forest in Nagaon district in central Assam during a storm…

Asian cities face perfect storm of environmental hazards By Marlowe HOOD Paris (AFP) May 13, 2021 Of the 100 cities worldwide most vulnerable to environmental hazards all but one are in Asia, and most are in India or China, according to a risk assessment published Thursday. Across the globe, than 400 large cities with…

Sri Lanka said Monday it had secured a $500 million loan from South Korea, a month after a similar loan from China as the island faced a foreign exchange shortage amid a debt crisis. The government said South Korea agreed to provide the loan at a concessional interest rate of 0.15 to 0.20 percent, repayable…

China will set up a “separation ” on the peak of Mount Everest to avoid possible Covid-19 infections by climbers from virus-hit Nepal, state media reported, after dozens were taken ill from the summit’s base camp. While the virus first emerged in China in late 2019, it has largely been brought under control in the…

The team of scientists and engineers behind NASA’s Curiosity rover has named a hill along the rover’s path on Mars in honour of recently deceased mission scientist Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez. A…

The team identified that front- essential workers should be a vaccination priority along with or shortly after seniors. Prioritising who receives the limited supply of COVID-19 vaccines available can save…

At the same time, new mutated forms of the virus, dubbed variants of concern, began to get noticed—first in the United Kingdom (B.1.1.7), and then in South Africa (B.1351) and…

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At first glance, waves have the makings of an ideal renewable energy source. They’re predictable, constant,…

Mass spectrometry is an importantat tool and has helped win several Nobel Prizes. It provides valuable information about the composition and structure of molecules and has found applications from drug…

While there were no large surges even during the festival season, ICMR’s third serosurvey found only 21.5% of India has been exposed to the virus Six months after India witnessed…

The satellite will also be able to retransmit distress signals from ships, aircraft or people in remote areas as part of the international Cospas-Sarsat satellite-based search and rescue programme, Roscosmos…

Wearing a face mask can protect yourself and others from Covid-19, but the type of material and how many fabric layers used can significantly affect exposure risk, found a new…

“What happens if they need to show that they’ve been vaccinated to get into a grocery store or a pharmacy, and that’s not something that their phone is capable of…

( to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where we aim to take the jargon out of science and put the fun in. Click here.) A colossal dinosaur dug up…

The U.K. reported 25 new cases of rare blood clots possibly linked to AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid-19 vaccine, adding to the numbers that have caused some European countries to adopt precautionary…

The efficacy of vaccines in the real world, updated travel guiines for the inoculated, and yet another rise in cases worldwide. Here’s what you should know: Want to receive this…

Sridhar is a lead system engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California for SuperCam on the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, which is on a mission to search…

During the first wave of COVID-19 infections across India, the mathematical approach, named SUTRA, predicted that the initial surge of infections in August would peak by September and lower in…

It’s finally out, the Snyder cut of Justice League. So, what about that part with Flash? This is not a spoiler, since Flash does this in other situations: He needs…