Nearly 20 million lives were saved by Covid-19 vaccines during their first year, but even more deaths could have been prevented if international targets for the shots had been reached, researchers reported Thursday. On Dec. 8, 2020, a retired shop clerk in England received the first shot in what would become a global…
A team of researchers from Delhi University has discovered 10 dinosaur eggs in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district. Among the mix is a unique egg which indicates that the species in India reproduce like birds. The eggs were discovered in Dinosaur Fossil National Park and belong to a species of titanosaurs, a group of…
Remains of a toothless, two-legged dinosaur species that lived some 70 million years ago have been discovered in Brazil, researchers said Thursday, calling it a “very rare” find. The small dinosaur, which measured about a meter (three feet) long and 80 centimetres (two and a half feet) tall, is a theropod,…
London: Protection against COVID-19 offered by two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech and the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines begins to fade within six months, underscoring the need for booster shots, according to researchers in Britain. After five to six months, the effectiveness of the Pfizer jab at…
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has launched a ‘Centre for Research on Start-Ups and Risk Financing’ (CREST) to provide academic and thought leadership in innovation, entrepreneurship and risk capital. Along with this, the institute also plans to create a unique world-class data repository on Indian…
Gravity has played its role in balancing the situation by distributing the newly formed iron crystals towards the western part of the core. The Earth’s core, composed of Iron and Nickel, is growing lopsided for reasons unknown. The solid iron core is growing faster on one side than the other, which has scientists…