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
Earlier this month, the 13th round of the India-Thailand joint military exercise “Maitree”, meaning friendship, was conducted at Fort Vachiraprakan in Thailand. India and Thailand share a maritime boundary in the Andaman Sea. This exercise between the Indian Army, whose contingent was represented mainly by the Ladakh Scouts battalion, and the Royal Thailand Army, shared … Read more
Driver films destruction in Jasper after wildfire blazes through town A huge wildfire may have destroyed up to half of the Canadian town of Jasper, officials have. The fires in Jasper National Park, which were sparked earlier this week, forced about 25,000 people to flee the area earlier this week, officials said on Thursday. Some … Read more
PROVIDENCE, RI [Brown University] – Ilija Nikolov knows better than anyone that a quantum future is coming. In fact, he’s so sure of it that he’s helping one of the world’s biggest investment firms prepare for it. Brown University Ph.D. student is completing an internship with the data science team of the Fidelity Center for … Read more
NEW DELHI: A war of words broke out between the Treasury and the Opposition Benches as the debate on the Union Budget resumed in the Lok Sabha on Thursday. While the Opposition flayed the Budget for being “partisan”, the Treasury Benches asserted that it will spur employment and help India in its march for all-round … Read more
Ed Ram/Getty A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in the north of Ethiopia, driven by drought, crop failure and continued insecurity in the aftermath of a brutal war. With local officials warning that more than two million people are now at risk of starvation, the BBC has gained exclusive access to some of the worst affected … Read more