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This traditional Japanese breakfast effective against COVID: Researchers
Tokyo: Researchers have found that a fermented soybean dish often served for breakfast in Japan, can prove to be effective against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.
Natto is made by fermenting soybeans with Bacillus subtilis, a…
Google Maps to provide info on crowded travel in 100 countries
New Delhi: Google has expanded the number of cities where Maps offers information about public transport crowding, and would provide transit crowdedness predictions for over 10,000 transit agencies in 100 countries around the world.…
India to be first country to have DNA vaccine: Health Minister
New Delhi: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday said it is not correct to say that the third Covid wave will affect children as in the two waves till now children were relatively less infected.
He said we will soon have…
‘Best day ever’: Jeff Bezos after his space flight
New Delhi: World's richest man Jeff Bezos has landed back on Earth after successfully completing the first-ever unpiloted suborbital flight that made history with the youngest and oldest person to space.
Bezos flew beyond the Karman line…
Autoantibody found in Covid-19 patients sparks ‘firestorm’ of blood clots, inflammation
New York: US researchers have discovered a functional autoantibody in Covid-19 patients that contributes to the disease's development and the "firestorm" of blood clots and inflammation it induces.
A growing body of studies suggests…
Covid antibodies last at least 9 months after infection, reveals study
London: Antibody levels remain high nine months after infection from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, whether symptomatic or asymptomatic, researchers have found.
Researchers from the University of Padua (Italy) and the…
Blue Origin’s first human spaceflight: Here’re details of Jeff Bezos’ trip
New Delhi: Jeff Bezos is all set to fly to the edge of space, beyond the Karman line, on Tuesday, along with three others, aboard his company Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.
The Karman line, 100 km above the ground, is the…
What makes Delta COVID variant so transmissible?
Bhubaneswar: In a recent interview, Dr N K Arora, co-chair, Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), explained what makes the Delta COVID-19 variant so transmissible.
Q. The Delta variant has been in focus as a global concern.…
Apple iPhone 13 likely to feature Wi-Fi 6E; check details
San Francisco: Cupertino-based tech giant Apple is expected to unveil its next-generation smartphone -- iPhone 13 -- with improved Wi-Fi 6E support.
Wi-Fi 6E is an extended version of the Wi-Fi 6 framework with the additional benefit of…
Psychiatric patients at high risk of hospitalisation, death due to Covid-19
London: The odds of dying or being hospitalised following Covid-19 infection in individuals with psychiatric disorders were found to be twice as high in comparison to persons without mental disorders, finds a study.
The study, published…
