Mano Animations The Glassworker is Pakistan’s first hand-drawn animated feature film Ten years ago, musician Usman Riaz grabbed a pencil and started to sketch. He might have hoped, but didn’t know at the time, that it would start him on a path to making history. That initial drawing became The Glassworker – Pakistan’s first ever … Read more
This artist’s concept shows what the universe might have looked like when it was less than a billion years old, about 7 percent of its current age. Star formation voraciously consumed the primordial hydrogen, churning out multitudes of stars at an unprecedented rate. NASA’s Roman Nancy Grace Space Telescope will look back at the early … Read more
Wes Streeting has called England’s healthcare watchdog “not fit for purpose” after an interim report found significant failings were hampering its ability to identify poor performance at hospitals, care homes and GP practices. The health and social care secretary promised to “grip the crisis” at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) by taking immediate action to … Read more
Sierra Space’s LIFE Habitat after a full-scale final burst pressure test at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama Sierra Space An element of a NASA-funded commercial space station, Orbital Reef, under development by Blue Origin and Sierra Space, recently completed a full-scale final blast pressure test as part of the agency’s efforts for … Read more
NEW DELHI: The INDIA bloc MPs on Wednesday staged a walkout in both Houses of Parliament protesting the alleged discrimination against the Opposition-ruled states in the Union Budget. The Opposition MPs also staged a protest in the Parliament premises over the issue. Lok Sabha Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi called the Budget an “assault” … Read more
The cost of England’s four biggest killer diseases could rise to £86bn a year by 2050, prompting calls for a crackdown on alcohol, junk food and smoking. The ageing population means the annual cost of cancer, heart disease, dementia and stroke combined will go from the £51.9bn recorded in 2018 to £85.6bn in 2050 – … Read more
Intern Lena Young, whose work revolves around DEIA and open science, stands next to a NASA sign at the NASA Earth Information Center in Washington, DC Photo courtesy of Lena Young Students in NASA’s Chief Data Science Office (OCSDO) are working to promote open science during the summer 2024 internship session. Their projects span a … Read more
New Delhi: British foreign secretary David Lammy held wide-ranging talks with external affairs minister S. Jaishankar in the national capital on Wednesday. Later in the evening, it was made public that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UK PM Keir Starmer are launching a new “Technology Security Initiative (TSI) to elevate the strategic partnership between the … Read more
Getty Images By the mid-1990s, the 50 million-strong vulture population in India plummeted to near zero Once upon a time, the vulture was an abundant and ubiquitous bird in India. The scavenging birds hovered over sprawling landfills, looking for cattle carcasses. Sometimes they would alarm pilots by getting sucked into jet engines during airport take-offs. … Read more
Brachiopods were evolving in new directions, but this did not translate into evolutionary success in terms of species numbers, researchers at the University of Bristol, the Open University and the China University of Geosciences have found. The findings, published today in Nature Ecology & Evolution, shed light on several key principles of the evolution of … Read more