NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has said the US space agency possesses images of unexplained phenomena captured during space missions, but stressed that they should not be interpreted as evidence of extraterrestrial life. Read More: NASA announces Moon base mission plans Speaking on a podcast with Jack Gordon, Isaacman said NASA has collected imagery that scientists have […]
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Sindh’s Science Teacher Initiative
While sitting at the dining table recently, I was watching Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. In one memorable scene, Cooper reflects on humanity’s determination to confront extraordinary challenges: “We’ve always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible.” The statement captures the spirit of scientific progress. Humanity has confronted disease, hunger, environmental threats and technological limitations […]
Sindh CM urges seminaries to focus on science, skills
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, addressing the annual convention of Jamia Tur Rasheed, praised the institution’s progressive approach of integrating religious (Deeni) and contemporary (Asri) education. The CM expressed his gratitude for the invitation and called it an honour to address the future scholars. He warmly welcomed the convention’s objectives, which he noted […]
Apple launches new dashboard full screen: check out
According to a new report, people drive an average of 29 miles a day in the US. They have phones. They’re going to want to use their phones while they’re driving. The question is, how can they do it safely, free from the distraction of the distraction-stuffed devices in their pockets? For more than a […]
Serbia fumes over Croatia’s plan to put Tesla on euro coins
Croatia’s plan to put famous inventor Nikola Tesla on its euro coins has sparked criticism in Serbia, whose central bank said Monday it would take the issue to the EU. Tesla, an ethnic Serb born in present-day Croatia in 1856 when the country was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, is a source of pride in […]
Key UN climate science talks open amid floods, fires
Nearly 200 nations start online negotiations Monday to validate a UN science report that will anchor autumn summits charged with preventing climate catastrophe on a planetary scale. Record-smashing heatwaves, floods and drought across three continents in recent weeks, all amplified by global warming, make the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment more than timely. […]
OPEC and allies set for another crude output increase
The OPEC group of oil-producing countries and its allies look set to keep boosting production when they meet Tuesday, as pandemic-hit demand for crude recovers. The OPEC+ alliance, consisting of 23 countries, implemented sharp output cuts to support prices after the coronavirus pandemic crushed the global economy last year. But since early May the cartel […]
China limits travel in most populous province over Covid-19 cases
Chinese authorities imposed fresh travel limits, cancelled flights and tested thousands of residents in Guangdong Monday after the Indian variant of the coronavirus was reported in the country’s most populous province. Travellers leaving Guangzhou — the capital of the southern province home to 100 million people — must show negative Covid-19 test results from the […]
Coronavirus sweeps through Thailand’s overcrowded prisons
A coronavirus surge sweeping through Thailand’s prisons has thrown the spotlight on the kingdom’s overcrowded penal system, where some inmates have less space to sleep than the inside of a coffin. More than 22,000 people have tested positive inside jails, where inmates living cheek by jowl have been encouraged to keep wearing their masks even […]
Australia’s Covid success under threat as Melbourne goes into lockdown
Five million weary Melbourne residents were put back under lockdown on Friday, straining local resolve and testing Australia’s “zero-Covid” strategy of smothering outbreaks however small. As authorities said a cluster of positive cases had grown to 39, streets in Australia’s second city emptied out for the fourth time since the pandemic began. “It’s just very […]