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India accounts for 26% of Global TB Reported Cases
In accordance with Global Tuberculosis Report 2020, the TB incidence rate in India is 193 per 100,000 population and accounts…
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Tryst with Trust
Credit: Dave Lowe on Unsplash If you are a proud resident of Delhi, you must have seen blue rectangular metro card. If…
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India’s economy is expected to contract by 10.3%, says IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) logo. Source: Deccan Herald While still reeling under tremendous impact from COVID-19, the Indian economy…
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Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel prize in literature
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Louise Glück. Source: Twitter/The Nobel Prize The 2020 Nobel Prize…
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Nobel Prize 2020 in economics awarded to Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
Nobel Prize 2020 in economics awarded to Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson. Source: Twitter/The Nobel Prize The 2020 Nobel prize…
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for genetic scissors
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna. Source: Twitter/The Nobel Prize…
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Did Anne Boleyn really try to speak after being beheaded?
Anne Boleyn (with head in situ). Public domain Adam Taylor, Lancaster University When Jean-Paul Marat’s killer, Charlotte Corday, was executed…
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Donald Trump has COVID-19. How might this affect his chances of re-election?
AAP/Ap/Julio Cortez Timothy J. Lynch, University of Melbourne With just a month left until the November 3 US presidential election,…
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Can robots write? Machine learning produces dazzling results, but some assembly is still required
Shutterstock Alexandra Louise Uitdenbogerd, RMIT University You might have seen a recent article from The Guardian written by “a robot”.…
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CDC says the virus can spread beyond six feet in Indoor air
Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash The novel coronavirus can spread through the air to people who are more than 6 feet away from…
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Avicenna: the Persian polymath who shaped modern science, medicine and philosophy
A miniature of Avicenna. Wikimedia Commons Darius Sepehri, University of Sydney Over a thousand years ago, Nuh ibn Mansur, the…
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“Liking” an article online may mean less time spent reading it
A study finds that when users have option to click “like” on the media article online, they spend less times…
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2 hours of TV a day in late childhood linked to lower test scores later
Shutterstock Lisa Mundy, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and George Patton, University of Melbourne Children aged 8 and 9 who watched…
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Is it too soon to herald the ‘dawn of a new Middle East’? It all depends what the Saudis do next
JIM LO SCALZO/EPA Ben Rich, Curtin University US President Donald Trump heralded nothing short of “the dawn of a new…
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Face masks and facial recognition will both be common in the future. How will they co-exist?
Pixabay, CC BY-SA Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University It’s surprising how quickly public opinion can change. Winding the clocks back…
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