Social media is abuzz with the claims made by Dutch researcher Frank Hoogerbeets that a 7-magnitude earthquake might hit Pakistan and surrounding regions in the coming days. The researcher at Netherlands-based Solar System Geometry Survey (SSGEOS) had, three days before the devastating quake that ...

Last month, while most of the world focused on the war in Ukraine and worried that a beleaguered Russian leadership might resort to nuclear weapons, thus escalating the conflict into a direct war with the U.S.-led NATO nuclear-armed alliance, a nearly tragic accident involving India and Pakistan ...

KARACHI - The Sino-Pakistan Joint Research Center for Nutrition and Health was launched in Beijing and Karachi, respectively, during a virtual ceremony on the sideline of the 2021 Sino-Pakistan Conference on Research and Application of Food and Medicinal Resources. The Institute of Food Science ...

A Pakistani researcher Dr Mubashir Rehmani has been ranked among the top one per cent researchers in the field of computer science by Clarivate for the second year. Dr Rehmani is an assistant lecturer at Department of Computer Science, Munster Technological University (MTU). MTU, in a tweet, ...

islamabad - Study shows sending microbes to Earth’s stratosphere, to test their endurance to Martian conditions, can reveal their potential use and threats to space travel. Some microbes on Earth could temporarily survive on the surface of Mars, finds a new study by NASA and German Aerospace ...

Researchers from Quaid-i-Azam University have identified critical changes in coronavirus during its local transmissions in different countries including Pakistan. Published in a prestigious journal 'Genes and Immunity' by 'Nature', the research found that those specific changes had improved the ...

A study has found plastic face shields don’t protect against Covid-19 if an infected person wearing no mask sneezes nearby. Researchers revealed “vortex rings” produced by the sneeze carry infectious particles to the face shield in less than a second and stick to the edges of the plastic. ...

BEIJING - A Chinese enterprise in collaboration with a Pakistani partner will market its products as well as set up a gene and cell research and transformation center in Pakistan. “Initially, Shenyang Biotech and Biomedicine Group will be marketing its products in Pakistan through Dynamic ...

Researchers at the US National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have claimed that Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, mRNA-1273, produces potent antibodies that last over three months. NIAID researchers have made this claim after studying the immune response of 34 adults who had ...

BEIJING – Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences are now saying that the coronavirus originated in India in July-August 2019 when an unbearable heat wave forced animals and humans from multiple areas of the country to share the same water sources. From there it traveled to Wuhan, ...