Buzz Aldrin, the former astronaut and the second person to walk on the moon, was in stable condition after being evacuated from the South Pole to a New Zealand hospital because of a medical problem, a U.S. agency and his tour company said. Aldrin.
E-Mail
BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, February 24, 2021 - Travel bans have been key to efforts by many countries to control the spread of COVID-19. But new research aimed at providing a decision support system to Italian policy makers, recently published in the
Journal of the Royal Society Interface, suggests that reducing individual activity (i.e., social distancing, closure of non-essential business, etc.) is far superior in controlling the dissemination of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
The research, which has implications for the United States and other countries, found that limiting personal mobility through travel restrictions and similar tactics is effective only
By Sanjay Kumar2021-02-23T14:30:00+00:00
In an ambitious initiative, India is aiming to rejuvenate and transform its research ecosystem. The centrepiece of this will be a new funding body – the National Research Foundation (NRF) – taking inspiration from the US National Science Foundation and UK Research and Innovation. For this, the government has announced a mammoth budget of INR500 billion (£4.9 billion) spread over next five years.
Historically, the vast majority of universities and colleges in India’s provincial states have been starved of funds, while central government funded universities have fared better and national laboratories have received generous funding.
‘The research conditions, manpower recruitment and laboratory facilities in our state universities and colleges – especially in rural areas – have simply been pathetic,’ complains a chemistry professor from Devi Ahilya University in Indore, Madhya Pradesh state in central India, who wishes to remain
Newswise BROOKLYN, New York, Tuesday, February 23, 2021 Debra Laefer, Professor in the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and Rae Zimmerman, Professor Emerita of Planning and Public Administration at NYU Wagner, are awardees of the Civic Innovation Challenge, a national competition to drive research and collaborative action in urban resiliency and smart and connected communities.
Their project, Unification for Underground Resilience Measures (UNUM), supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), aims to bolster the ability of first New York City and, ultimately, of cities nationwide to prepare for and respond to crises and disasters by making critical information on community infrastructure robust, open, transparent, and easy for key stakeholders to share and act upon.
E-Mail
IMAGE: Smoking gun: After the supermassive black hole tore the star apart, roughly half of the star debris was flung back out into space, while the remainder formed a glowing accretion. view more
Credit: Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab
Tracing back a ghostly particle to a shredded star, scientists have uncovered a gigantic cosmic particle accelerator. The subatomic particle, called a neutrino, was hurled towards Earth after the doomed star came too close to the supermassive black hole at the centre of its home galaxy and was ripped apart by the black hole s colossal gravity. It is the first particle that can be traced back to such a tidal disruption event (TDE) and provides evidence that these little understood cosmic catastrophes can be powerful natural particle accelerators, as the team led by DESY scientist Robert Stein reports in the journal