Patients in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune have been kept in single-room isolation facilities. A total of six samples of the recent U.K. returnees have been found to be positive with …
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No. While mosquitoes can spread some diseases, most notably malaria, experts say COVID-19 is not among them. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it has no data …
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Whichever side of the subjective city-versus-rural debate you’re on, the objective laws of thermodynamics dictate that cities lose on at least one front: They tend to get insufferably hotter, more …
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An asteroid “large enough to cause global effects,” will fly by Earth next month on April 29. According to NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, the asteroid is called 52768 …
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 2021/01/03: People wearing face masks as a preventive measure against the … [+] spread of covid 19 walk in Oxford Circus. (Photo by Pietro Recchia/SOPA Images/LightRocket …
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Here is some of the most interesting research to have appeared in top science journals last week. (Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where we aim to take …
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DUBAI : The United Arab Emirates plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2024, a top Emirati official said on Tuesday, the latest gamble in the stars …
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Laurence Tubiana, France’s top diplomat at the talks, said another key innovation was what she termed “360-degree diplomacy.” That means not just working through the standard government channels, with ministerial …
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured its highest-resolution panorama yet of the Martian surface. The composition has stitched together more than 1,000 images taken during the Thanksgiving break between November 24 …
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Amy Johnson joined the ATA in 1940. By Unknown (The Age newspaper) – [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68865853 On a cold, stormy January night in 1941, an Allied plane plunged into …
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Bethany works closely with NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute to highlight European contributions to the Hubble mission (Subscribe to our Today’s Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of …
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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 …
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Here’s a simple-sounding problem: Imagine a circular fence that encloses one acre of grass. If you tie a goat to the inside of the fence, how long a rope do …
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Tiny waxworms who gorge on plastic can potentially help in combatting pollution, as per a new study. Scientists believe that they are capable of doing this due to their gut bacteria or microbiome. …
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The Earth in orbit around the Sun, with its rotational axis shown. Earth’s axial tilt does not … [+] change appreciably in direction or magnitude over the course of a …
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Research showed Chennai was rainfall dominated and Mithi catchment was storm-tide dominated The C40 Cities report of 2018 notes that by 2050, over 570 low-lying coastal cities will face projected …
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Scientists have developed a method to quickly identify and label mutated versions of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 using information from a global database of testing information, an advance …
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Here’s the wild part, the most 2020 thing about 2020: That schism—that conflict between public health and private well-being, between personal liberties and communal gain—is as old as pandemics. The …
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A new study has revealed that the trees in the world’s largest rainforest are losing their ability to absorb carbon. The study tracked 300,000 trees over 30 years, providing the …
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Depression has risen threefold since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. getty The destruction that Covid-19 has created is immediately evident in the number of cumulative deaths. As I write …
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The COVID-19 pandemic began in January 2020. Italy, France and the U.S. had the novel coronavirus importation in November–December of 2019, but it had remained unrecognised until laboratory test for …
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To address the growing issue of mental health illness during the Covid-19 pandemic across the country, the Mental Health Foundation of India (MHFI) has launched an exclusive web portal for …
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The pandemic sped up the need for such tests. This summer, the FDA authorized two Crispr-based tests, both for detecting SARS-CoV-2. Boston-based Sherlock Biosciences received the green light for its …
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Coronavirus has spread across the globe like wildfire and dozens of new cases are being recorded every day. Also Read: Confirmed coronavirus cases rise to 125 in India By now, everyone …
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Saw The ‘Christmas Star?’ How You Can See A Rare ‘Triple Conjunction’ Of Three Planets This Weekend
This weekend it will be possible to see Mercury form a neat triangle with Jupiter and Saturn. getty Jupiter, Saturn and their exceedingly rare and beautiful “great conjunction” on the …
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The immune responses of people to natural infection can be modified by immune evasion mechanisms of the virus As on January 1, nearly 10.3 million SARS-CoV-2 cases have been reported …