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Globalisation is no longer business as usual. Coronavirus has changed how the world works ǀ View Cold War

Globalisation is no longer business as usual. Coronavirus has changed how the world works ǀ View

COVID-19 is the new guy in town, or rather the whole world. It is not even an electronic virus that would devastate computer servers wreaking havoc on social media and financial networks, defence systems and telecommunications. It is a “traditional” virus, which apparently originated in animals and is now spreading…
bubmag
March 24, 2020
U.N. seeks total ceasefire in Syria, prisoner releases, to combat coronavirus Syria

U.N. seeks total ceasefire in Syria, prisoner releases, to combat coronavirus

FILE PHOTO: United Nations Special Envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen speaks during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (not pictured), in Moscow, Russia January 24, 2020. REUTERS/Evgenia NovozheninaGENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Special Envoy for Syria called on Tuesday for an immediate nationwide ceasefire across Syria to enable…
bubmag
March 24, 2020
Scientists Find Amounts of Superconducting Material Inside Meteorite Pieces Space Debris

Scientists Find Amounts of Superconducting Material Inside Meteorite Pieces

Superconductivity in nature is extremely rare on Earth, but that might not be the case for the rest of the universe. March 24, 2020 A group of scientists has discovered a number of superconducting materials inside two different meteorites. These two are home to superconductive grains, embedded deep inside them. This discovery…
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March 24, 2020
Press Information Bureau (PIB) IAS UPSC – 15th March to 23rd March – 2020 IDEX

Press Information Bureau (PIB) IAS UPSC – 15th March to 23rd March – 2020

ARCHIVES Central Sanskrit Universities Bill, 2020 stands passed in Parliament  (Topic: Society, Culture) This bill will convert  (i) Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi (ii) Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, New Delhi (iii) Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Tirupati into Central Sanskrit Universities The Central University status awarded to these 3…
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March 24, 2020
Small horses got smaller, big tapirs got bigger 47 million years ago Brown Coal

Small horses got smaller, big tapirs got bigger 47 million years ago

Window into the 47 million year old ecosystem of the Geiseltal fossil locality with the small-sized horse-ancestor Propalaeotherium on the left, the ancient tapir Lophiodon in the middle, and a young terrestrial crocodile Bergisuchus in the background. Credit: Márton Szabó The former coalfield of Geiseltal in eastern Germany has yielded…
bubmag
March 24, 2020
Forte recruits 5 more high-end game studios to make blockchain-based games Blockchain

Forte recruits 5 more high-end game studios to make blockchain-based games

Forte has established partnerships with five more game studios to make blockchain-based games that are integrated with Forte’s technology. These studios will also benefit from grants from Forte’s partnership with cryptocurrency Ripple to create a $100 million fund to invest in blockchain games. The game studios include Hi-Rez Studios, maker…
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March 24, 2020