Hugging tiger wins the wildlife photo award

Sergey Gorshkov’s photograph of a Siberian tiger one of rarest creatures on Earth  taken in the deep forests of ‘Russia’s Far East won him the title of Wild Photographer of the Year. The female tiger is seen embracing a tree, rubbing herself up against the bark to leave her scent and mark territory in Leopard…

Nobel prize for chemistry awarded for discovering genetic editing

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to French researcher Emmanuelle Charpentier and American biochemist Jennifer A Doudna for developing the tools to edit DNA. The duo discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools,  the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors,   a way of making specific and precise changes to the DNA contained in living cells.…

Space butterfly captured by Astronomers

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s  (ESO) gigantic telescopein Northern Chile  shot the picture of NGC 28990 a bubble of  gas resembling a butterfly. The “space butterfly” is localted between 3, 000 to 6, 500 light-years away in the.Southern constellation of Vela. NGC 2899’s vast swathes of gas can reach temperatures of over 10, 000 °C.…

Shakuntala Devi : mathematical genius

Indian biopic movie “Shakuntala Devi’s director Anu Menon narrates through the eyes of Shakuntala’s daughter Anupama Banerjee, how a phenomenon was born at the cost of the mother and wife. Shakuntala Devi is a drama about a mother-daughter relationship and beyond portraying Shakuntala Devi as a flawless genius and a flawed person, highlighting the importance…

Ophiuchus throws Zodiac calendar in to chaos

  Ophiuchus, a new star sign  is a thirteenth-star sign as revealed by NASA throws astrological calendar in a mess Ophiuchus named after the ancient Greek for “ snake bearer” comes into line straddling the celestial equator for 18 days between November 29 and December 17  with Scorpio’s window cut to just seven days. Astrological…

Huwaei 5G kit to be banned from UK by 2027

Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden told the House of Commons of the decision to ban Huawei 5G Kit must be removed from the UK. Mr. Dowden also said, “This has not been an easy decision, but it is the right one for the UK telecoms networks, for our national security and our economy, both now and…

We live in a world that’s more interconnected than ever before

An idea takes off like wildfire, changing our world forever, as a deadly virus suddenly explodes into the population. We live in a world that’s more interconnected than ever before.  Our lives are shaped by outbreaks of disease of misinformation, even of violence that appears, spread, and fade away with bewildering speed. Adam Kucharski, an…

Dexamethasone steroid – a major breakthrough in treating Covid-19

Dexamethasone, a cheap genetic steroid has proven to become the first life-saving drug treatment in the Covid-19 pandemic. The low-dose steroid treatment Dexamethasone is part of the world’s biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus, and found it cut the risk of death by a  third for patients on…

Why we couldn’t stop the virus

A rocket capable of flying passengers from London to Dubai in under 29 minutes, shared flying cars that can be ordered up like we order a Uber and which nanoscale motes will float through our bloodstream collecting data are some of the innovations that await us in the next decade as the technology is accelerating…