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Scientists find gene preventing bird flu virus from spreading to...
An international team of scientists has identified a gene that is preventing the bird flu viruses from spilling over into humans.
Pets played lifesaving role during Covid pandemic: Study
3 Dec 2020 4:06 PM ISTIn the absence of human-to-human contact, in millions of households worldwide, animals or pets have provided much-needed comfort via cuddles, pats and...
Robots can encourage people to take greater risks
13 Dec 2020 9:07 PM ISTEven as the scale of interaction between humans and technology increases, a new research has shown that people tend to take more risks when prodded by...
Bird flu will not affect humans, says virologist
10 Jan 2021 9:24 AM ISTThe H5N8 bird flu virus that is creating havoc in Kerala affects domestic and wild birds and not humans. However, though there was no evidence of this...
Probe into platypus genome asks if humans are the weird ones
20 Jan 2021 12:47 AM ISTWhen the British zoologist George Shaw first encountered a platypus specimen in 1799, he was so befuddled that he checked for stitches, thinking...
LUNAR EXPLORATION: The quest to get humans to the moon again
4 Feb 2021 12:20 AM ISTA virtual tour of European Service Modules headed for the moon on NASA’s human spaceflight program Artemis is not what it seems. Astronauts will fly...
CYCLE OF EVOLUTION: Humans are animals, and we better get used to the...
25 Feb 2021 6:59 AM ISTIt’s astonishing how relentlessly philosophy has strained to prove we are not squirrels.
SARS-CoV-2 jumped from bats to humans 'without much change'
14 March 2021 10:57 PM ISTA team of researchers has found that the virus SARS-CoV-2 has jumped from bats to humans without much change.