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Caught in deadly race with new COVID strain, Britain 'gambles' with mix-and-match vaccine regimen

Scientists have slammed the new guidance which allows for the interchange of vaccines, if the second dose of the vaccine originally received is not available, saying officials have abandoned science and are just trying to 'guess their way out of a mess'

Living Robots: Machines that eat, mutate like living beings built by Cornell engineers

The machine isn't technically 'alive', just closer to it than any other 'living robots in existence.

Alien species could be evolving on some of our nearest exoplanets, reveals study

Life may be evolving on Earth-like planets orbiting in the habitable zone of some of our closest stars.

2018 was the fourth-warmest year on record, next five years to be much hotter

The US temperature in 2018 was the 14th warmest on average, said NOAA climate monitoring chief.

People's perception of food can be altered using virtual reality, reveals study

The purpose here was to develop an easy-to-implement and affordable method for adapting virtual reality.

#MeToo: Trauma of patriarchal terms like 'eve-teasing' shed dominance as 'sexual harassment' takes over

Feminists have long argued about the gendered nature of language and how it furthers patriarchy.

Former CEA Kaushik Basu says lynchings and 'divisive policies' hurting India's goal of becoming economic superpower

Former chief economic advisor Kaushik Basu said a spate of lynchings and divisive policies are hurting India's image and warned the country's political leaders that the negative publicity could hinder its goal of becoming an economic superpower, according to several media reports.

Budget 2018: Fiscal discipline has taken a backseat, says Indian economist of Cornell University

Fiscal discipline has taken a backseat in the latest annual Indian Budget which contains many tinges of populism, noted Indian economist Eswar Prasad said

Newly appointed Infosys CEO Salil S Parekh seen as a soft-spoken yet determined man by analysts

Parekh, was chosen from over two dozen candidates in a search that lasted about 3 months and covered a wide canvas of names both within and outside Infosys.

How smart virtual personal assistants can incubate human empathy

Mobile technology giants have been making it happen, with their Virtual Personal Assistants (VPA) that have been strengthening the human-machine relationship.