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The Novavax vaccine, which is easy to store and transport, is expected to play an important role in boosting vaccine supplies in the developing world.

Coronavirus | Novavax claims 90% efficacy for its vaccine

Sriram Lakshman

The company’s study involved nearly 30,000 persons aged 18 and above in the U.S. and Mexico.

Digital divide: With technology-driven solutions to get registered, the gap widens and puts poor, vulnerable, rural and marginalised at the end of vaccine access.

Will 25% vaccines for private hospitals aggravate inequity?

Reconstructed fossil: Bharitalasuchus tapani were approximately the size of an adult male lion and might have been the largest predators in their ecosystems.

Meet Bharitalasuchus tapani, a carnivorous reptile that lived 240 million years ago

Aswathi Pacha The Indian fossil specimen was not studied earlier because it was not as complete as the specimens found in other countries

A molecular view of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus

D. Balasubramanian

How scientists make out the difference between variants of a virus

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People get vaccinated during a vaccination drive at Palavakkam, Chennai on May 18, 2021.

India confirms first death following COVID-19 vaccination

Bindu Shajan Perappadan The causality assessment of 31 reported Serious Adverse Events Following Immunisation (AEFI) cases following COVID-19 vaccination was carried out by the panel.

Bharat Biotech has so far invested over ₹500 crores at risk from its own resources for product development, clinical trials and setting up of manufacturing facilities for Covaxin.

₹150 per Covaxin dose to Centre not sustainable in long run: Bharat Biotech

Special Correspondent “The supply price of Covaxin to the government of India at ₹150 / dose, is a non-competitive price and clearly not sustainable in the long run,” Bharat Biotech said in a statement

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About 10.6 million Indians have registered on the platform to date, falling behind only the U.S.

Machine learning, blockchain emerge as top online courses in India: report

Sowmya Ramasubramanian Digital skills have become important today especially to stay redundant at a time when technology is powering most industries. The pandemic also displaced millions of workers worldwide.

WISA Woodsat is a 10x10x10 cm nano satellite built up from standardised boxes and surface panels made from plywood

World's first wooden satellite to be launched from New Zealand

Abhishek Chatterjee The satellite, designed and built in Finland will orbit at around 500-600 km altitude in a roughly polar Sun-synchronous orbit.

Google opens Workspace for all Gmail users.

Google opens Workspace for all Gmail users

Aditya Saroha Debuted in October last year, Workspace offers Gmail, Docs, Chat, Drive and a few others services.

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Myth or reality? Pogeyan has been reportedly spotted in the high-altitude grasslands of the Anamudi forest.

Tale of a mystery cat echoes on Anamudi hills

Giji K. Raman There is no solid proof, but tribespeople of the hills in the Western Ghats swear by ‘Pogeyan’

Pyrostria laljii has been assessed as ‘Critically Endangered’ based on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List criteria.

15-metre tree discovered in Andaman & Nicobar Islands

Shiv Sahay Singh Pyrostria laljii is new to science, and also the first record of the genus Pyrostria in India.

Union Minister Prakash Javadekar. File

India's contribution to climate change in last 200 years just 3%: Javadekar

PTI Developed nations owe USD 1.1 trillion to developing nations as a part of climate change mitigation under the Paris Agreement, and this was discussed at the G7 Summit, said the Union Environment Minister

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This picture taken on June 2, 2021 shows a mouse on a plastic sheet used as a trap on Terry Fishpool's farm in the New South Wales' agricultural town of Tottenham.

After fire and floods, Aussie farmers suffer devastating mouse plague

AFP The government has announced millions of dollars in support and reached for a more potent poison

A floating bed of degraded water hyacinth being prepared in the Vembanad backwaters for cultivation of marigold at Thanneermukkom panchayat in Alappuzha district.

For Onam, marigolds from a floating raft

K.A. Martin Youngster undertakes farming experiment in Vembanad backwaters

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UK watchdog looking into Apple, Google's dominance of mobile phone systems

Hyundai accelerates 'flying car' efforts, offer services around vehicles - COO

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This yoga mat is an eco-conscious tribute to Deepor Beel in Assam

India to expedite Amazon, Flipkart antitrust probe as tech focus intensifies

PM Modi to deliver keynote address at VivaTech

Machine learning, blockchain emerge as top online courses in India: report

Google, Facebook, Amazon call on SEC to mandate climate reports

To address climate change, the group said it is committed to taking bold steps within their operations, supply chains, products, technology and public engagement.

Amazon announces ML skills development programme in India

The e-commerce giant through its ML Summer School will conduct a three-day course starting in July that will cover a wide range of concepts in ML from fundamentals to advanced and link them to practical industry applications.

First death confirmed due to anaphylaxis following COVID-19 vaccination

Central government says gains outweigh risks, advocates vaccines for all.

House panel on IT summons Twitter

To hear their views on steps taken to prevent misuse of social media and online news

Google opens Workspace for all Gmail users

Debuted in October last year, Workspace offers Gmail, Docs, Chat, Drive and a few others services.

Covaxin supplies at ₹150 to Centre non-competitive price, not sustainable: Bharat Biotech

A higher price in private markets is required to offset part of the costs, says vaccine maker

World's first wooden satellite to be launched from New Zealand

The satellite, designed and built in Finland will orbit at around 500-600 km altitude in a roughly polar Sun-synchronous orbit.

After fire and floods, Aussie farmers suffer devastating mouse plague

The government has announced millions of dollars in support and reached for a more potent poison

Two doses of AstraZeneca vaccine have 92% protection against hospitalisation with delta variant

In the case of Pfizer vaccine, the protection against hospitalisation was 94% after one dose and 96% after two doses.

U.S. Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield personal data

The justices threw out a lower court ruling that had barred LinkedIn from denying hiQ access to the information that LinkedIn members had made publicly available.

Watch | China's wandering elephants

A video on the 500-km journey undertaken by a herd of elephants in China

Samsung enters Europe with Vodafone 5G network deal in Britain

European mobile operators are increasingly considering Samsung to replace China's Huawei as a supplier, with executives from Spain's Telefonica and France's Orange previously telling Reuters they had held talks with the firm.

El Salvador bitcoin transfers soar, but still a fraction of dollar remittances

The Central American country last week became the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, with President Nayib Bukele touting the cryptocurrency's potential as a remittance currency for Salvadorans overseas.

For Onam, marigolds from a floating raft

Youngster undertakes farming experiment in Vembanad backwaters

Reservoirs in Pathanamthitta to host fish farms

New initiative to open such facilities in the reservoir of the Kakki dam

Free day-time power supply to agri feeders from this kharif

‘Nearly ₹1,700 cr. spent on augmenting the infrastructure, says Minister

Farming against odds

In spite of good rain forecast, non-payment of govt. benefits and bank credit in time and COVID-19 situation are not helping the farmers’ cause

India's contribution to climate change in last 200 years just 3%: Javadekar

Developed nations owe USD 1.1 trillion to developing nations as a part of climate change mitigation under the Paris Agreement, and this was discussed at the G7 Summit, said the Union Environment Minister

Toshiba registers new quantum record

The experiment is a positive step towards the future quantum Internet, a global network of quantum computers connected by distance communication lines.

Nigeria's Twitter ban leaves some businesses in the lurch

Scores of small and medium-sized businesses across Africa's most populous nation - and largest economy - are reeling from the indefinite suspension of the social media site

Bitcoin jumps after Musk says Tesla could use it again

Musk has taken issue with the vast computing power required to process bitcoin transactions and in early June posted messages appearing to lament a breakup with bitcoin

Too many apps at work are making employees less productive: report

The findings come at a time when many companies worldwide are shifting to a permanent remote-working set up, making the use of technology more important than ever

Coronavirus | Novavax announces overall efficacy of about 90% for its vaccine in U.S., Mexico study

The company’s study involved nearly 30,000 persons aged 18 and above in the U.S. and Mexico.

The gaming highlights that ruled E3 2021

Mark your calendars, players! The pandemic has not stopped 2021’s biggest video games event, E3, from shelling out some gaming goodness, from Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora to the biggest Forza Horizon game yet

Microsoft working to bring the Xbox experience to more people globally

The Redmond, Washington-based firm is working with TV manufactures for an Xbox app, and building streaming devices that will be compatible with different screens.

Honeywell joins hands with Cambridge Quantum Computing to form a new company

According to Honeywell, the merger will be completed in the third quarter of 2021 and will set the pace for what is projected to become a $1 trillion quantum computing industry over the next three decades.

China's internet watchdog issues notices to 129 mobile apps for illegally collecting personal info

China has intensified efforts against personal information infringements through administrative and legal measures in recent years.

'Divine Vessel' to mark China's first human spaceflight since 2016

China, which aims to become a major space faring power by 2030, in May became the second country to put a rover on Mars,two years after landing the first spacecraft on the far side of the moon.

Google is using AI to design chipsets in just six hours

The new chips are said to be superior or comparable to those produced by humans in all key metrics including power consumption, performance and chip area.

Bills that could force Big Tech breakups unveiled in House

It concluded that the four tech giants have abused their market power by charging excessive fees, imposing tough contract terms and extracting valuable data from individuals and businesses that rely on them.

Globally people spent 86% more time on travel apps; India’s railway booking app among top installs list

The trend indicates the global travel market is witnessing a recovery, with an uptick in vaccinations and eased lockdown restrictions in several parts of the world

Musk says Tesla will accept bitcoin when miners use reasonable clean energy

Tesla will resume allowing Bitcoin transactions when there’s confirmation of reasonable (~50%) clean energy usage by miners.

Tale of a mystery cat echoes on Anamudi hills

There is no solid proof, but tribespeople of the hills in the Western Ghats swear by ‘Pogeyan’

Excess deaths in Hyderabad are 10 times the official COVID-19 toll for Telangana

Figures corroborate Telangana High Court’s concerns with drastic undercounting of COVID deaths.

Can extradite cyber criminals to U.S only on reciprocal basis, says Putin

Biden to raise the issue of ‘cyberattacks’ in meet with Putin.

Coronavirus | No greater risk to children from anticipated third wave: report

‘Mortality rate among hospitalised COVID-positive children below 10 was 2.4%’

15-metre tree discovered in Andaman & Nicobar Islands

Pyrostria laljii is new to science, and also the first record of the genus Pyrostria in India.

India’s investment in research unsatisfactory: UNESCO report

Gross domestic expenditure on research has stayed at 0.7% of the GDP for years

Watch | This man from Kerala grew a mini-forest on his land

A video on Manoj Kumar from Kerala, who grew a forest on one-and-a-half acres

Mouse sperm stored on International Space Station produces healthy offspring

Solar flares from the surface of the Sun generate particles that can have particularly devastating impacts on human health and penetrate current generation spaceships.

The impact of noise on trees

Scientists have long known that noise pollution affects birds and animals. A new study suggests that the detrimental effects have trickled down to plants as well and the risks can be long-term.

Green humour by Rohan Chakravarty

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People get vaccinated during a vaccination drive at Palavakkam, Chennai on May 18, 2021.

101K | First death confirmed due to anaphylaxis following COVID-19 vaccination

Sulabh Srivastava

28K | Uttar Pradesh scribe who expressed threat to life by ‘liquor mafia’, dies in ‘road accident’

Security personnel keep watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during the visit by the World Health Organization (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. File photo.

22K | Chinese scientist at center of coronavirus controvery breaks her silence

Relatives offer flowers and perform rituals at the grave of a person who died of COVID-19 at a crematorium on the outskirts of Hyderabad on May 23, 2021.

21K | Excess deaths in Hyderabad are 10 times the official COVID-19 toll for Telangana

A file photo of shops on S.P. Road closed, during the lockdown, in Bengaluru.

15K | Highlights of COVID-19 restrictions in Bengaluru effective for a week from June 14

Tanks pull back from the banks of Pangong Lake on February 10, 2021.

13K | A year after Galwan clash, China beefing up positions along LAC

A man reacts as he receives a shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 during a mass vaccination for retail workers at a stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, June 15, 2021.

12K | Two doses of AstraZeneca vaccine have 92% protection against hospitalisation with delta variant

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12K | Government report flags ‘lapses’ in Nagaland bat study

Anand took on Aamir, Arijit and Anany Birla, among others, in an online challenge organised by chess.com

11K | Chess fundraiser | Nikhil Kamath admits using computer in his win against Viswanathan Anand