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Comet NEOWISE. Photo: Bob Behnken/Twitter

Comet Neowise swings close to earth, was visible to naked eye

KATHMANDU: Comet Neowise, officially known as C/2020 F3, was seen with the naked eyes as it made its initial approach to the sun. Astronaut Bob Behnken shared several...

KATHMANDU: Comet Neowise, officially known as C/2020 F3, was seen with the naked eyes as it made its...

Mobile & Apps 09 Jul, 2020

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is seen on a screen during a video message at the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China July 9, 2020. Photo: Reuters

Tesla 'very close' to level 5 autonomous driving technology, Musk says

SHANGHAI/BEIJING: US electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc is "very close" to achieving level 5 autonomous driving technology, Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Thursday,...

SHANGHAI/BEIJING: US electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc is "very close" to achieving level 5 autonomous...

Mobile & Apps 09 Jul, 2020

A computer image created by Nexu Science Communication together with Trinity College in Dublin, shows a model structurally representative of a betacoronavirus which is the type of virus linked to COVID-19, better known as the coronavirus linked to the Wuhan outbreak, shared with Reuters on February 18, 2020. Photo: NEXU Science Communication/via Reuters

Serious brain disorders in patients with mild Covid-19 symptoms, warn UK neurologists

KATHMANDU: UK neurologists have warned that serious and potentially deadly brain disorder might be triggered among patients with mild Covid-19 symptoms or recovering...

KATHMANDU: UK neurologists have warned that serious and potentially deadly brain disorder might be...

Mobile & Apps 08 Jul, 2020

Doris Kelly, 57, sits in her home on Monday, June 29, 2020 in Ruffs Dale, Pa. Kelly was one of the first patients in a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center trial for COVID-19. u201cIt felt like someone was sitting on my chest and I couldnu2019t get any air,u201d Kelley said of the disease. Photo: AP

'Desperation science' slows the hunt for coronavirus drugs

Desperate to solve the deadly conundrum of COVID-19, the world is clamoring for fast answers and solutions from a research system not built for haste. The ironic, and...

Desperate to solve the deadly conundrum of COVID-19, the world is clamoring for fast answers and...

Mobile & Apps 08 Jul, 2020

This undated handout picture shows underwater artefacts dated back thousands of years when the sea bed was dry land, found by researchers from Flinders University, University of Western Australia and James Cook University. Image: Videograb of Deep History of Sea Country Project & Flinders University, Maritime Archaeology Program/Handout via Reuters

Australian scientists discover ancient underwater Aboriginal sites

SYDNEY: Australia's first underwater archaeological sites off its west coast dating to more than 7,000 years ago will help with the understanding of the cultural and...

SYDNEY: Australia's first underwater archaeological sites off its west coast dating to more than...

Mobile & Apps 02 Jul, 2020

Locusts used for research are seen inside glass tubes inside a laboratory at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), an international scientific research institute, in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 24, 2020. Photo: Reuters

How�to�rid�East�Africa�of locusts?�Serve�them�in a�kebab�or�drive�them�to�cannibalism

NAIROBI: Eat them, poison them, and use scent to drive them to cannibalism - as a second wave of locusts threatens to devour East Africa's crops, scientists in a...

NAIROBI: Eat them, poison them, and use scent to drive them to cannibalism - as a second wave of...

Mobile & Apps 02 Jul, 2020

Artist's impression showing a Neptune-sized planet orbiting a star located 730 light years from our solar system. Image: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick/Handout via Reuters

Surviving core of ill-fated Jupiter-like planet spotted near distant star

WASHINGTON: A rocky planet 39 times as massive as Earth has been spotted orbiting a distant star at breakneck speed, with astronomers concluding it may be...

WASHINGTON: A rocky planet 39 times as massive as Earth has been spotted orbiting...

Mobile & Apps 02 Jul, 2020

Photo Courtesy: International Space Station/Twitter

NASA TV go live with their ISS spacewalk broadcast

KATHMANDU: NASA is broadcasting live International Space Station (ISS) expedition on a SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, being performed by NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Robert...

KATHMANDU: NASA is broadcasting live International Space Station (ISS) expedition on a SpaceX’s Crew...

Mobile & Apps 01 Jul, 2020

Tentacles on cells may help virus spread to other cells

The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness...

The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and...

Mobile & Apps 30 Jun, 2020

The multiplanetary system of newly discovered super-Earths orbiting nearby red dwarf star Gliese 887 is seen in this artist's impression. Photo: Mark Garlick/Handout via Reuters

Planets around nearby star are intriguing candidates for extraterrestrial life

WASHINGTON: Up to three planets - potentially rocky like Earth - have been spotted around a star located relatively near our solar system - a planetary system offering...

WASHINGTON: Up to three planets - potentially rocky like Earth - have been spotted around a star...

Mobile & Apps 27 Jun, 2020

A view of Jupiter's moon Europa created from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990's, according to NASA, obtained by Reuters May 14, 2018. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute/ Handout via Reuters/File

Subsurface ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa deemed potentially 'habitable'

WASHINGTON: Scientists have figured out how the subsurface ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa may have formed and determined that this vast expanse of water may have been able...

WASHINGTON: Scientists have figured out how the subsurface ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa may have formed...

Mobile & Apps 27 Jun, 2020

Facebook to label all rule-breaking posts - even Trump's

OAKLAND: Facebook said Friday that it will flag all "newsworthy" posts from politicians that break its rules, including those from President Donald Trump. Separately,...

OAKLAND: Facebook said Friday that it will flag all "newsworthy" posts from politicians that break its...

Mobile & Apps 27 Jun, 2020

Project Director Professor Trent Munro, University of Queensland COVID-19 vaccine project. Photo Courtesy: University of Queensland's website

University of Queensland's COVID-19 vaccine project to begin recruitment of participants

University of Queensland's COVID-19 vaccine project to begin recruitment of...

KATHMANDU: University of Queensland (UQ) has made a call for recruitment of healthy participants to sort candidates for testing COVID-19 vaccine. UQ is accelerating its...

KATHMANDU: University of Queensland (UQ) has made a call for recruitment of healthy participants to sort...

Mobile & Apps 19 Jun, 2020

Massive spying on users of Google�s Chrome revealed

SAN FRANCISCO: A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google’s market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at...

SAN FRANCISCO: A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of...

Mobile & Apps 19 Jun, 2020

Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new security weakness

SAN FRANCISCO: A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google's market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at...

SAN FRANCISCO: A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of...

Mobile & Apps 18 Jun, 2020

What's your Covid-19 susceptibility? Try the risk calculator to find out

KATHMANDU: A team of researchers have developed a risk calculator to predict an individual’s risk of testing positive for Covid-19 and their outcomes for the...

KATHMANDU: A team of researchers have developed a risk calculator to predict an individual’s risk of...

Mobile & Apps 17 Jun, 2020

Is Dexamethasone 'the breakthrough' in coronavirus treatment? Research says yes

KATHMANDU: At a time when there is no generally accepted treatment or vaccine for Covid-19, a team of researchers have made a claim that they've found what could be a...

KATHMANDU: At a time when there is no generally accepted treatment or vaccine for Covid-19, a team of...

Mobile & Apps 16 Jun, 2020

A person holds a smartphone with the official 'Corona Warn-App' (Corona Warning Application) in Berlin, Germany, Monday, June 15, 2020. The app will be introduced on Tuesday, June 16 by the German authorities. Photo: AP

Coronavirus tracing app a test for privacy-minded Germany

BERLIN: Germany launched a coronavirus tracing app Tuesday that officials say is so secure even government ministers can use it. Smartphone apps have been touted as a...

BERLIN: Germany launched a coronavirus tracing app Tuesday that officials say is so secure even...

Mobile & Apps 16 Jun, 2020

Does Covid-19 have a bidirectional relation with Diabetes? Let's take a look at what a study has to say

Does Covid-19 have a bidirectional relation with Diabetes? Let's take a look at what...

KATHMANDU: There is a bidirectional relationship between the COVID-19 and diabetes, a UK-based study has suggested. In an article published in the New England Journal of...

KATHMANDU: There is a bidirectional relationship between the COVID-19 and diabetes, a UK-based study has...

Mobile & Apps 14 Jun, 2020

Researchers perform field work in Torres Del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile, in this picture taken February 2020 and provided on June 11, 2020. Felipe Trueba/EPA/Handout via Reuters

Researchers�in�Chile�unearth�74�million-year-old�mammal�teeth

SANTIAGO: Chilean and Argentine researchers have unearthed teeth in far-flung Patagonia belonging to a mammal that lived 74 million years ago, the oldest such...

SANTIAGO: Chilean and Argentine researchers have unearthed teeth in far-flung Patagonia belonging...

Mobile & Apps 12 Jun, 2020

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