Microsoft Viva – discover what it means in the Digital Age

Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced Microsoft Viva. It is a unique employee experience platform that is aimed to bring engagement, learning, wellbeing, knowledge, and discovery into the workflow. It works within Microsoft Teams. The CEO said that Microsoft had been part of the world largest at scale remote working experiment during the last … Read more

Total FDI inflow of US$ 58.37 billion received during April to November 2020

FDI Inflow in India

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is a major driver of economic growth and an important source of non-debt finance for the economic development of India. It has been the endeavor of the Government to put in place an enabling and investor-friendly FDI policy. The intent all this while has been to make the FDI policy more … Read more

Reconcile rather than compete

Source: https://timeforequality.org/ “बहुत ही बेचैनियां पाली हमने  एक सुकून की तलाश में…” “Bahut hi Bechainiyan pali humne Ek sukun to talash me…” It translates to following: “We have kept palpitations close to our heart in search of just peace. We are in the moment of human evolution when we often hear the words women-empowerment, women-right, … Read more

9 tips to give yourself the best shot at sticking to new year’s resolutions

Photo by Danielle MacInnes on Unsplash Joanne Dickson, Edith Cowan University For many cultures, the dawn of the new year is marked not only with celebration, but also the opportunity for personal reflection and growth. But as the year progresses, our initial drive for self-betterment can falter. The good news is our tendency to give up can be … Read more

A solution from the pain of COVID-19: Men should sit while peeing

Be it sustainability, be it health benefits, or be it peace at home, sitting may have positive impacts; however, the choice is still yours—should you lift or leave the seat resting on the bowl while carrying your business standing, or should the toilet be something we sit on, not aim at!

Australia demands apology from China over ‘repugnant’ slur on Twitter

Australia PM Scott Morrison ( File Photo | AP) Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Prime Minister Scott Morrison has demanded China apologise for – and Twitter remove – a highly offensive tweet depicting an Australian soldier with a knife to the throat of a child. Morrison described the tweet as disgusting and utterly outrageous. Australia … Read more

AstraZeneca’s results signal more good vaccine news — but efficacy is only the beginning of the story

Shutterstock Nicholas Wood, University of Sydney AstraZeneca has become the latest pharmaceutical company to reveal promising results in clinical trials, for its viral vector vaccine developed with the University of Oxford. In a group given two full doses of the vaccine at least one month apart, the vaccine demonstrated 62% efficacy at preventing COVID. Interestingly, … Read more

Pfizer vaccine: what an ‘efficacy rate above 90%’ really means

F8 Studio/Shutterstock Zania Stamataki, University of Birmingham There was – rightfully – a lot of excitement when Pfizer and BioNTech announced interim results from their COVID vaccine trial. The vaccine, called BNT162b2, was reported to have an “efficacy rate above 90%”. This was soon translated in the press to be 90% “effective” at preventing COVID-19. … Read more

How to live in space: what we’ve learned from 20 years of the International Space Station

NASA / Tracy Caldwell Dyson Alice Gorman, Flinders University and Justin St. P. Walsh, Chapman University November 2 marks 20 years since the first residents arrived on the International Space Station (ISS). The orbiting habitat has been continuously occupied ever since. Twenty straight years of life in space makes the ISS the ideal “natural laboratory” … Read more

Hey Google … what movie should I watch today? How AI can affect our decisions

Shutterstock TaeWoo Kim, University of Technology Sydney Social media algorithms, artificial intelligence and our own genetics are among the factors influencing us beyond our awareness. This raises an ancient question: do we have control over our own lives? This article is part of The Conversation’s series on the science of free will. Have you ever … Read more

Coronavirus survives on skin five times longer than flu: Study

CDC says virus can spread beyond six feet in Indoor air

Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash The Covid-19 virus remains active on human skin for nine hours, Japanese researchers have found, in a discovery they said showed the need for frequent hand washing to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. As per study pathogen that causes the flu survives on human skin for approximately 1.8 hours—far lesser in comparison to SARS-CoV-2. Study … Read more

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 reigning prince of the medieval city of Bukhara, fell badly ill. The doctors, unable to do anything for him, were forced to send for a young man named Ibn Sina, who was already renowned, despite … Read more

Is wearing glasses can protect you from COVID-19?

H Shaw on Unsplash A team of researchers in China have found that people who wear glasses appear to be at lower risk of catching COVID-19. The report, published in JAMA Ophthalmology, noticed that since the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan in December 2019, few patients with spectacles were admitted to hospital suffering from COVID-19. To have a deeper … Read more