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An Energy Breakthrough Could Store Solar Power for Decades Researchers in Sweden have created a molecule that offers a way to trap heat from the sun. By November 4, 2019, 10:31 AM GMT+5:30 Illustration: Khylin Woodrow for Bloomberg Businessweek For decades, scientists have sought an affordable and effective way of capturing, storing, and releasing solar…
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An illustration shows the position of NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes outside of the heliosphere, a protective bubble created by the sun that extends well past the orbit of Pluto. ILLUSTRATION BY NASA/JPL-CALTECH SCIENCESTARSTRUCK Interstellar space even weirder than expected, NASA probe reveals The spacecraft is just the second ever to venture beyond…
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U.S. Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change, Report Commissioned By Pentagon Says The report says a combination of global starvation, war, disease, drought, and a fragile power grid could have cascading, devastating effects.   By Nafeez Ahmed Oct 24 2019, 6:30pm ShareTweetSnap IMAGE: CALVIN SHEN According to a new U.S. Army report, Americans could…
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      MS TECH Biotechnology / CRISPR The newest gene editor radically improves on CRISPR Researchers have developed “prime editing,” a true search-and-replace function for DNA. by Antonio Regalado Oct 21, 2019 For all its well-earned fame, the gene-editing tool CRISPR is, in reality, pretty hard on the genome. It’s a pair of DNA scissors that cuts…
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China Muslims: Xinjiang schools used to separate children from families By John SudworthBBC News, Xinjiang 4 July 2019 Share this with Facebook   Share this with Messenger   Share this with Twitter   Share this with Email   Share     Media captionThe BBC’s John Sudworth meets Uighur parents in Turkey who say their children…
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Tashpolat Tiyip: The Uighur leading geographer who vanished in China By Andreas IllmerBBC News 11 October 2019 Share this with Facebook   Share this with Messenger   Share this with Twitter   Share this with Email   Share   Image copyrightEPHE Until 2017, Tashpolat Tiyip was a model academic, head of Xinjiang University, globally connected,…
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First Emirati Astronaut Returns to Earth with Russian-US Space Station Crew By Robert Z. Pearlman 13 days ago Spaceflight  UAE astronaut Hazzaa Ali Almansoori spent 8 days in space.           Click here for more Space.com videos…   CLOSE             Volume 0%         The first Emirati astronaut…
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By  Archana Chaudhary September 20, 2019, 2:30 AM GMT+5:30   Government plan has raised privacy, data security concerns   Bids for facial recognition tender to be opened on Oct. 10     Play Video   Face It, You’re Being Watched Unmute       Face It, You’re Being Watched LISTEN TO ARTICLE   5:07 SHARE…
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If India is in crisis, it is because good guys like ex-IAS Kannan Gopinathan rather quit To arrest India’s decline, it is important that the government attract, retain and empower the good guys. Kannan’s leaving is a loss to the government. NITIN PAI Updated: 27 August, 2019 8:59 am IST Kannan Gopinathan | File photo |…
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  “Shouldn’t Kashmir Affect You?”: Kannan Gopinathan On Why He Quit IAS हिंदी में पढ़ें The former bureaucrat had quit the administrative service on August 21 to protest what he claimed was the denial of fundamental rights to lakhs of people in Jammu and Kashmir.     EMAIL PRINT 247COMMENTS   Kannan Gopinathan said life…
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