From early humans rubbing sticks together to make fire, to the fossil fuels that drove the industrial revolution, energy has played a central role in our development as a species. But the way we power our societies has also created humanity\’s biggest challenge. It\’s one that will take all our ingenuity to solve. Energy is […]
Today, Mars is a frigid desert. But dried up deltas and riverbanks reveal that water once flowed over the plant’s surface. Where did it all go? Scientists have been trying to answer this question for decades, hoping to understand how Mars became an arid wasteland while its neighbor, Earth, kept hold of its water and
By Muhammad Amin The word Nawroz has been derived from the Persian words, Naw and Roz`. Naw means new and Roz means day, respectively. As a whole, Nawroz means new day of the year. The tradition marks the first day of the spring or equinox and the beginning of the New Year in the Persian
Denmark and Norway have temporarily halted use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as a precaution, after Danish reports of some people having blood clots after vaccination and one death, BBC reported. The EU medicines agency has emphasized there is no indication the vaccine had caused blood clots. It said the number of cases in vaccinated people
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Retreating glaciers in the Himalayas are not only dangerously filling up glacial lakes but they are also causing other hazards that are not being monitored, scientists have warned. The recent flash flood disaster in India\’s Uttarakhand state, they say, is the latest example of such a perilous knowledge gap. The Himalayas have the largest number
