Year: 2021

Oliver Zipse, CEO of German luxury carmaker BMW poses with a mask after BMW donated protection masks and gloves to the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW), as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Munich, Germany, April 8, 2020. Reuters/Andreas Gebert

CDC Study Finds Two Masks Are Better Than One for COVID-19

Wearing double masks blocked 95% of coronavirus sized particles...

A volunteer receives an injection from a medical worker during the country's first human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against the novel coronavirus, at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa. Photo:Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

Can Scientists Who Conduct Vaccine Trials Negotiate for Post-Trial Access?

Keymanthri Moodley and Theresa Rossouw 11/02/2021

Post-trial access and benefit sharing should extend to the...

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Bhopal Hospital’s Serious Breach of Covaxin Trial Protocols Could Prove Costly

The Wire Staff 11/02/2021

Serious protocol violations jeopardise Bharat Biotech's assessment of the...

Maxar's satellite image shows an overview of NTPC's under-construction Tapovan Vishnugad Hydropower plant project along the Dhauliganga River in the Uttarakhand region of India before glacial collapse and flash flood

The Science and the Political Economy of the Rishi Ganga Flood

R. Sreedhar 11/02/2021

The damages being wrought on the third pole are...

Untreated sewage from a residential area flows into the Ganges river in Mirzapur, India. Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui

Lockdown Reduced Heavy Metal Levels in Ganga by 50%: IIT Kanpur Study

The Wire Staff 11/02/2021

Levels of dissolved heavy elements in Ganga River decreased...

A microbiologist processes coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tests in a lab at the Government Medical College in Kochi, India. Photo:Reuters/Sivaram V

Protein Behind Lesser Spread of Coronavirus Variant in Asia Than Europe, North America: Study

Researchers from National Institute of Biomedical Genomics(NIBMG) find that...

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Policy Memo: How Can We Improve the Prospects of India’s Women in STEM?

Shruti Muralidhar and Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan 11/02/2021

It's not a trivial matter that half of our...