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Covid restrictions on air travel drives major airports to scale back renov
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 9 (ANI): As the coronavirus pandemic stifles air travel, major airports around the world are rethinking plans to spend billions of dollars on renovation projects such as building new terminals, runways and hotel chains that could remain empty if demand doesn't ret
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Study develops ways to trace spread of major plant disease
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 5 (ANI): A team of scientists has found potential ways to prevent the spread of a disease-causing bacterium that harms more than a hundred plant species worldwide, an advance that could save the nursery industry billions of dollars a year.
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Nissan and Renault prepare billions of dollars in cuts
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 25 (ANI): Multinational automobile manufacturers Nissan and Renault have planned to disclose billions of dollars in cost cuts this week and slash capacity by an additional million vehicles in view of the coronavirus shutdowns, people familiar with the companies'
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Lex Sportel brings you the first-ever LIVE cricket under lockdown conditio
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI/NewsVoir): 1SPORTS brings the first ever live cricket during the global COVID-19 pandemic shutdown for the benefit of billions of diehard cricket fans waiting to watch their favorite sport live!
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Here's why finding a COVID-19 vaccine won't be enough to end the pandemic
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 13 (ANI): Medical experts have warned that the volume of vaccine available to fight the coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2 in coming years is expected to fall far short of global demand, despite an unprecedented effort to manufacture billions of doses.
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'Elegant' solution reveals how universe got its structure
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 28 (ANI): The universe is full of billions of galaxies -- but their distribution across space is far from uniform. Why do we see so much structure in the universe today, and how did it all form and grow?
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Interstellar asteroids found hiding in plain sight
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 23 (ANI): A new study has identified the first known permanent population of asteroids originating from outside our Solar System. The objects are believed to have been captured from other stars billions of years ago and have been orbiting our Sun in disguise ever
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US: Missouri AG sues China over COVID-19 pandemic, demands billions as dam
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], April 22 (ANI): Missouri's Attorney General Eric S Schmitt on Tuesday (local time) announced that he has filed a lawsuit in a District Court against China, holding it responsible for the coronavirus pandemic, besides demanding repayment of 'billions of dollars' the state
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Milky Way could be catapulting stars into its outer halo
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
California [USA], April 20 (ANI): Astronomers have shown that clusters of supernovas can cause the birth of scattered, eccentrically orbiting suns in outer stellar halos of Milky Way, upending commonly held notions of how star systems have formed and evolved over billions of years.
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Need of the hour docu-film 'Coronavirus: How to Isolate Yourself' Premiere
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 13 (ANI/NewsVoir): As the war against the novel coronavirus deepens with billions of people across the world facing a period of self-isolation to help contain the spread, Sony BBC Earth is bringing to India a critical docu-film 'Coronavirus: How to Isolate
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Researchers develop crypto ID tag to spot counterfeits
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Massachusetts [USA], Feb 22 (ANI): Supply chain counterfeiting costs companies billions of dollars annually. Now, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a cryptographic ID tag that can identify a product's authenticity without being bulky.
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Coronavirus outbreak can cripple global box office collections
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], Jan 30 (ANI): The coronavirus outbreak has closed the shutter on almost the entire movie theatre business in China, which could push the global box office into losses worth billions of dollars.
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