Fall out with Google: Huawei determined to fightback with HarmonyOS
In 2019, the US had updated Entity List, a blacklist that restricts US companies from engaging in trade with any foreign company or an individual,...
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Novavax’s vaccine shows 89% efficacy in UK trials
LONDON, UK: A new coronavirus vaccine is 89.3% effective in large-scale UK trials. The Novavax jab is the first to show it is effective against...
What the rat? Rats drive cars to collect food
RICHMOND, USA: Researchers at Richmond University have taught rats to drive cars to collect food, relaxing them in the process. The experiment was conducted by...
Over the moon: NASA to send a mobile robot to hunt water
WASHINGTON D.C., USA: The US space agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has planned to send a mobile robot to the South Pole of...
Heat camera at tourist attraction spots woman’s breast cancer
EDINBURGH, Scotland: Heat Camera helped a tourist spot a thermal anomaly, later diagnosed as breast cancer, during a family visit to the attraction site in...
Cyber sleuths win National Missing Persons Hackathon with nearly 100 new leads
CANBERRA, Australia: A group of cyber sleuths from Adelaide has won the National Missing Persons Hackathon, finding nearly 100 new pieces of information for police...
Australia’s national science agency and takeaway tycoon to make ‘fake-meat’ fast food
CANBERRA, Australia: Australia’s national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), has teamed up with the Australian billionaire fast food chain to...
‘Minutes of life lost’ counter on cigarettes to help quit smoking
QUEENSLAND, Australia: University researchers have found ‘minutes of life lost’ counter on cigarettes more effective and impactful than packet warnings. Queensland’s James Cook University research...
315 billion-tonne iceberg breaks off Antarctica
AMERY, Antarctica: An iceberg, the size of urban Sydney, has broken off an ice shelf in Antarctica. The Amery Ice Shelf, the third largest ice...
Water discovered on ‘potentially habitable’ exoplanet
WASHINGTON, USA: Astronomers discover water for the first time ever in the atmosphere of an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star....