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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 more 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 …

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 …

Tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea: Why are they increasing? By Glenda KWEK New Delhi (AFP) May 17, 2021 A powerful cyclonic system, Tauktae, is expected to make landfall in …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

China will set up a “separation line” 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 …

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-line 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 …

(Subscribe 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 guidelines 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 …