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Easy as pi: Scientists calculate pi to a new record of 62.8 TRILLION figures and it only took them 108 days – 3.5 times...

Pi has been calculated to an astonishing 62.8 trillion figures by a team of Swiss scientists who spent 108 days working it up -...

Japan to oblige businesses to reduce 12 disposable plastic items

The move is based on legislation that was enacted in June to cut down on plastic waste at restaurants and retail stores. Business operators...

Tokyo Paralympics: Cyclist Paige Greco smashes her own world record in in the women’s pursuit C3 3000m

Greco, 24, broke her own world record by more than seven seconds when she finished with an amazing time of 3:52.283 to top the...

YouTube adds video chapter previews, auto-translates captions in new search functions

Timestamp previews and auto-play snippets added to mobile. “These time-stamped images detail the different topics covered in videos and let you better evaluate the...

Tokyo 2020 sets the record for most athletes and women at a Paralympic Games

Tokyo 2020 will be the biggest Paralympic Games ever with a record number of athletes set to take part.  In addition, more female athletes...

Samsung overtakes Intel to become the largest semiconductor supplier in 2021

This is the 10% increase in the corresponding indicators, surpassing the usual leader in this category, Intel. Note that these components are indispensable in...

Facebook is the latest to copy TikTok with Reels in the United States

Social network Facebook is the latest to borrow from TikTok, with Facebook Reels now being tested in a handful of countries. Now live in India,...

Rain falls on peak of Greenland ice cap for first time on record

Rain has fallen on the summit of Greenland’s huge ice cap for the first time on record. Temperatures are normally well below freezing on the...

Paleontologists discover 3 new species of primitive ungulates

The new species lived within a few hundred thousand years after a mass extinction event roiled the globe and killed off non-avian dinosaurs 66...

India gives world’s first COVID-19 DNA vaccine approval for emergency use

World’s first and India’s indigenously developed DNA based ZyCoV-D vaccine developed by Zydus Cadila for COVID-19 to be administered in humans including children and adults 12 years and...

Simple genetic modification aims to stop mosquitoes spreading malaria

Altering a mosquito's gut genes to make them spread antimalarial genes to the next generation of their species shows promise as an approach to...

China approves emergency use of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 3-17

A COVID-19 vaccine developed and produced by Sinopharm's institute in Wuhan has been approved for emergency use on children aged between 3 and 17...

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