'Healthy' Hong Kong Woman Dies of Coronavirus 6 Days After Developing Symptoms Experts warn younger people not to assume that their Coronavirus infection will be mild. Dec 14, 2020By Bhaswati Guha Majumder Coronavirus
Scientists Discover 20 New Species in Bolivian Andes Including Those Thought to be Extinct The scientists also rediscovered a frog, which was last sighted almost 20 years ago, and a butterfly which was last seen 98 years ago. Dec 14, 2020By Bhaswati Guha Majumder
Water on Mars May Not Be As Abundant As Previously Believed, Suggests Study According to the study, water present on Mars may not be as extensively distributed as previously thought. Dec 14, 2020By Jeevan Biswas Space
Pakistani Doctor in Canada Develops Instant Covid-19 Test Using Smartphone The invention would help in fighting viruses causing tropical diseases like dengue. Dec 14, 2020By Bhaswati Guha Majumder Coronavirus
Christmas Star: Get Ready to Watch Rare Astronomical Event for First Time in Hundreds of Years On December 21 Jupiter and Saturn will come so close to each other that they may appear to be overlapping, creating a kind of 'double planet'. Dec 12, 2020By Bhaswati Guha Majumder Space Nasa
Latvia Installs World's First Vending Machine for Covid-19 Test One vending machines will remove the need for up to five medical workers, healthcare expert says. Dec 12, 2020By Bhaswati Guha Majumder Coronavirus
Peru Halts China's Sinopharm Covid-19 Vaccine Trial After Volunteer Develops Neurological Symptoms The volunteer developed severe neurological side-effects associated with Guillain-Barre syndrome that causes nerve damage and often paralysis Dec 12, 2020By Krishnendu Banerjee Coronavirus
EXCLUSIVE: As Pfizer Vaccine Gets Emergency Approval, Experts Say It's Time to Face Challenges Farhana Nakhooda and Gary Chua spoke to IBTImes Singapore about the challenges ahead and how world governments can solve vaccine-related issues. Dec 12, 2020By Bhaswati Guha Majumder Coronavirus
Solving an Evolutionary Mystery: Pterosaurs Evolved From Small Flightless Ancestors, Says Study According to paleontologists, pterosaurs may have evolved from a group of flightless reptiles known as lagerpetids. Dec 12, 2020By Jeevan Biswas Archaeology
CDC Was Dead Wrong on Covid-19; Ignored Alert in January, Says Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Steve Wozniak says that he thinks the COVID-19 was already in the US in December 2019. Dec 12, 2020By Bhaswati Guha Majumder Coronavirus
Over 35,000 of World's Animal and Plant Species Are at Risk of Extinction The IUCN Red List says 30 percent of the world's species including freshwater dolphins, amphibians are facing extinction threat. Dec 11, 2020By Bhaswati Guha Majumder
TOPSTRETCHING: Online Fitess - The colossal revolutionary stretching app for women developed by German V Gussakovskiy and Dmitriy Kanyuk which is taking the industry by storm The bustling sedentary life that we lead in today's world has imposed a lot of serious health complications and raised the overall obesity stats. Dec 11, 2020By IBT Desk
Indian and Swedish Scientists Find New Drugs that Can Treat Coronavirus Infection The focus of the study by Alagappa University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology was to find drugs that can target vital proteins of the novel Coronavirus. Dec 11, 2020By Bhaswati Guha Majumder Coronavirus
These Animals Are Most Vulnerable to COVID-19 After Humans, Finds New Study A new study found that ducks, rats, mice, pigs and chickens were the least susceptible to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection. Dec 11, 2020By Jeevan Biswas Coronavirus
Key Protein In Replication Process of SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Could Be Its Weakness, Find Scientists According to two studies, a protein known TMEM41B, may serve as a weakness that could potentially be targeted by COVID-19 therapies Dec 11, 2020By Jeevan Biswas Coronavirus