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Notes from a pandemic: On the shared experience of COVID-19, and the significance of mundane little pleasures

For the first time in our lifetimes, we have a single reference point that our entire planet’s human inhabitants can relate to

UK signs deals with Pfizer, BioNTech and Valneva to secure 90 million doses of possible COVID-19 vaccines

With no vaccine against COVID-19 developed yet, Britain now has three different types of vaccines under order and a total of 230 million doses potentially available.

UK govt set to roll out speedy finger-prick COVID-19 tests after conducting successful 'secret human trials'

The home tests, developed by a University of Oxford consortium with diagnostics firms, can tell within 20 minutes if a person has ever been exposed to COVID-19.

Preliminary data on Oxford University's potential COVID-19 vaccine likely by end of July: Report

The developers of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine said that they were encouraged by the immune response they had seen in trials so far

Under lockdown in Europe, Indian students go online to protest inequalities back home, keep up with academics

"All of us are fighting a global coronavirus pandemic, along with a failing political economy at the age of 24/25. And at the same time, we are trying to navigate through life — none of us are prepared for that. It is unprecedented,” says an Indian student living under lockdown in Europe

Indian universities fail to make Times Higher Education top 300 World University Rankings 2020; IISc slips down ranks

For the first time since 2012, India does not have any entry in the top 300 in World University Rankings 2020, published by UK-based Times Higher Education

University of Oxford researchers use principles of evolutionary biology to figure out what aliens could look like

The research supports the idea that extra terrestrial life goes through the process of natural selection, and evolve over time to be fitter and stronger.

Researchers create first comprehensive atlas of vertebrate life on Earth

Scientists have created the atlas of life - the first global review and map highlighting the whereabouts of 31,000 vertebrate species on the Earth.

It is impossible that humans are living in a Matrix style simulated universe: Study

Following the popularity of 90s classic The Matrix many have questioned whether our world is a mere simulation and humans are in reality just a "Brain in a Vat".

Arvind Subramanian's term as Chief Economic Advisor extended by one year, says Arun Jaitely

The government will extend the term of Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian by one year till October 2018,