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This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. Just when you were wondering why the world’s biggest tech companies weren’t doing more to fight the…
The microbes pulled from the marine organisms inhabiting the waters off Alabama’s coast are believed to boast huge potential, promising that less costly and toxic drugs could be manufactured from them. Researchers who dove 60 feet underwater to examine the…
More than two billion people across the world are now in lockdown, staying at home or adhering to social distancing rules introduced by governments in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. A drastic reduction in global human activity due to…
New Delhi (Sputnik): India has received requests from several countries to lift the ban on the export of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, considered “game changer” in the fight against COVID-19. New Delhi had imposed the ban on the drug and…
According to Roscosmos chief, the market price of a SpaceX launch is about $60 million but NASA pays between 1.5 and 4 times more for it. Russia will slash the price of its space launch services by 30 percent to…
New Delhi (Sputnik): Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign against COVID-19 draws strength from the thousands of sanitation workers. And while Indian society that has shunned them for years – most of them belong to the lower caste and do menial…
