Month: July 2024

What is the ‘responsible quantum technologies’ movement? | Explained

July 8, 2024 admin

The United Nations recently said 2025 will be observed as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ). There are to be many events focusing on quantum science and technology (S&T), including to create awareness of its concepts and explore its benefits for humankind. The applications of quantum mechanics constitute an emerging technology yet…

Science

Curtains on Shiv Sena (UBT)-VBA alliance

July 8, 2024 admin

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and VBA president Prakash Ambedkar. | Photo Credit: ANI Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi chief Prakash Ambedkar on July 7 said the VBA’s alliance with the Shiv Sena led by Uddhav Thackeray is broken. The VBA was part of the INDIA grouping before it walked out of the opposition bloc over disagreement…

Nation

How jumping genes and RNA bridges promise to shake up biomedicine

July 8, 2024 admin

The year was 1948. It had only been about half a century since scientists had rediscovered Gregor Mendel’s work on inheritance in pea plants. This year, a scientist working on the genetics of the maize plant would challenge the then prevailing concept that genes are stable and arranged in an orderly manner on the chromosome….

Science

What is graphene? – The Hindu

July 7, 2024 admin

An artistic representation of a 2D layer of carbon atoms, a.k.a. graphene. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto When the same element is able to exist in different forms, the forms are called allotropes. Graphene, thus, is an allotrope of carbon, along with diamond and graphite. It consists of a single layer of carbon atoms that…

Science

Nobel Laureate Alice Munro’s Daughter Says Her Stepdad Sexually Assaulted Her, And She Knew

July 7, 2024 admin

Alice Munro, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, died at 92 in May Montreal, Canada: Canadian writer Alice Munro’s daughter said Sunday that her stepfather sexually abused her as a child and that her mother was told but stayed with him, in a damning account published after the Nobel laureate’s death. Andrea…

World

Disaster Averted, Emmanuel Macron Still Faces Big Challenge Ahead

July 7, 2024 admin

Emmanuel Macron faces a number of headaches including a left that now believes it has a mandate to govern Paris: President Emmanuel Macron has avoided his nightmare scenario of the far right coming to power in France but still faces an unprecedented challenge steering his country and the remainder of his presidency through an uncertain…

World

Russia says captured another village in east Ukraine

July 7, 2024 admin

Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Russia on Sunday said its forces had captured another village in Ukraine‘s eastern Donetsk region, the latest modest territorial gain for its advancing forces. Russian troops had “liberated the village of Chigari” in the Donetsk region, the Defence Ministry said in a daily briefing posted on social…

World

Kamala Harris’ Husband Doug Emhoff Tests Positive For Covid-19, She Is Negative

July 7, 2024 admin

Doug Emhoff’s office said he is “fully vaccinated and three times boosted” Washington: US Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff recently tested positive for Covid-19, the latter’s office has announced. In a statement on Sunday, Emhoff’s Communications Director Liza Acevedo said the Second Gentleman on Saturday tested positive for Covid-19 after experiencing mild symptoms….

World

Iran-Backed Hezbollah Targets Israeli Mountain Base In “Largest” Air Attack Amid Israel-Hamas War In Gaza

July 7, 2024 admin

The Israeli military said an explosive drone “fell in an open area in the Mount Hermon area” Beirut, Lebanon: Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement said on Sunday it launched its “largest” air operation, sending explosive drones at a mountaintop Israeli military intelligence base in the annexed Golan Heights. It is the latest incident among escalating cross-border exchanges…

World

Seven children among 49 people drowned across Russia on July 6

July 7, 2024 admin

The local emergency services in Russia have fished out all the four bodies of students who drowned in Volkhov river near St. Petersburg, Russia. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Seven children were among 49 people who drowned in waters across Russia on July 6 as scorching heat blankets large swaths of the country, the Ministry…

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