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Global fertility rates plummeting? Don’t worry just yet

The doomsday scenario does not recognise that declining fertility often represents positive developments, such as increasing female autonomy and education.

Test pool? Group testing for coronavirus could be the fastest way to increase screening

The US FDA recently issued an emergency-use authorisation to allow a lab testing company to pool samples from up to four patients to test for the coronavirus.

Please sit down — but here’s how to do it correctly

Given that people now spend increasing amounts of time sitting during the day, should we be opting for the floor over a chair in the interest of our health?

Disease route? Bacteria and virus use ‘highways’ of the sky to travel the world

Some scientists have speculated that even the COVID-19 virus may have been carried between countries by a jet stream through the atmosphere.

Covid could have been AI’s moment in sun. But it isn’t as flexible as humans yet

The pandemic has reminded us of just how quickly humans can adapt existing knowledge, skills and behaviours– something that highly-specialised AI systems just can’t do.

An Oxford immunologist breaks down how the university’s vaccine works against Covid-19

Oxford University and AstraZeneca tested its Covid vaccine — ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 543 — on 543 healthy adults. The results are promising. But we may need yearly booster doses.

Here’s how scientists know the coronavirus came from bats and not a lab

Coronaviruses and bats are locked in an evolutionary race in which the viruses are constantly evolving to evade their immune system and bats are evolving to withstand infections.

In pandemic, one supply chain is working as smooth as ever — that of smugglers’

Criminals have had to innovate to keep their supply chains open. A good example is concealing illegal drugs in consignments of face masks or sanitisers.

Kenya and Google join hands to make ‘internet balloons’ — 1,000 users can login from each

A single plastic balloon can provide internet connectivity to an area of about 80 km in diameter and serve about 1,000 users on the ground.

Covid has resurrected single-use plastic. Pandemic is turning clock back

Pre-coronavirus, ‘Bring your own’ tote bags, mugs and other foodware had become part of daily life for many US consumers. Not anymore.

On Camera

The govt’s ‘fix’ to speed up insolvency could add at least a year to the process

The proposed amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code aims to reduce timelines and provide for a mechanism that involves minimal interaction with the court. It fails on both counts.

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.