Drugs have been developed by QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute. Researchers have detailed findings in a study published in Nature Cell Discovery on 24 May.
French virologist Luc Montagnier went viral on WhatsApp for apparently saying ‘people who take any Covid vaccine won’t survive’. That’s fake, but he has made many such claims.
A tornado ripped through 24-Parganas and Hooghly districts Tuesday. ThePrint explains the weather phenomenon that has been documented in Bengal since 1838.
Chinese space programme was initiated in 1956, when the country’s first rocket research institution was founded. It launched its first rocket into space on 19 July 1964.
Gain of function research focuses on growing generations of microorganisms under conditions that cause mutations. For years, there has been an ethical debate around it.
A novel coronavirus was isolated from pneumonia patients in Malaysia in 2018. It could be the 8th coronavirus to have entered the human population but poses no pandemic risk yet.
Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.
Lakhs of people were stranded at beach in heat as crowd control measures apparently failed. At least 14 lakh people were in attendance though police had expected around 10 lakh.
How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?
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