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Obese patients infected with the coronavirus may be at higher risk of developing severe disease, doctors tracking the patterns of the infection have said after limited observations and experience with...

India, one of the largest producers of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), has suddenly turned into the world’s saviour. This generic drug is being used to combat the Sars-Cov2 virus an...

The largest computer chips these days would usually fit in the palm of your hand. Some could rest on the tip of your finger. Conventional wisdom says anything bigger would be a problem. Now a Silicon ...

Climate change and rising sea levels may eventually wipe out the tiger population in the Sunderbans in Bangladesh, scientists have warned in a study.The big cats are among the nearly 500,000 land spec...

Your next smartphone may flip open to reveal its screen and fold up when you are ready to put it away — just like the old-school clamshell phones from the 1990s. The question is: Do we even want som...

Nasa has recently introduced two prototype spacesuits to be used during upcoming moon missions.The new spacesuits will offer improvements over existing models, including greater comfort and movement. ...

How Indians survived TobaA gigantic volcanic eruption at Lake Toba in Indonesia 74,000 years ago, is believed to have plunged Earth into a 1,000-year-long chill that snuffed out early humans in Asia a...

If previous outbreaks of coronavirus are any indication, the Wuhan strain that is now spreading may eventually be traced back to bats. Dr Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, who has been wo...

Tired of the usual attention-getting filters you use to make your photos pop with stronger contrast or deeper colour saturation? If you want to make a different type of eye-catching picture, consider ...

Last fall, a pair of historians revealed that yet another Soviet spy, code named Godsend, had infiltrated the Los Alamos laboratory in the US where the world’s first atomic bomb was built. But they ...