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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Editor's note: Here’s something to chew on during a pandemic. Forget bat viruses, if alien viruses from outer space existed, could they infect us? Viruses on Earth are parasites that can infect living hosts and hijack their resources to make new viruses because “Earth-hosts” are compatible. This is because all life evolved on the planet from common ancestors using variations of the same chemistry. But if there were alien parasites adapted to different alien hosts, they might be so different from Earth life that they’d be completely mismatched to it. We have not yet discovered life outside of Earth, of course. But aided by recent technological advances and audacious thinking, researchers in the field of synthetic biology are redesigning both the molecules that life is made of and life itself. And in turn, they’re in the process of creating aspects of life that are “alien” to life itself. But before we get to that, we need to know what life is. In his new book What is Life?, Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Paul Nurse laid out three principles shared by all life forms. …
Editor's note: Here’s something to chew on during a pandemic. Forget bat viruses, if alien viruses from outer space existed, could they infect us? Viruses on Earth are parasites that can infect living hosts and hijack their resources to make new viruses because “Earth-hosts” are compatible. This is because all life evolved on the planet from common ancestors using variations of the same chemistry. But if there were alien parasites adapted to different alien hosts, they might be so different from Earth life that they’d be completely mismatched to it. We have not yet discovered life outside of Earth, of course. But aided by recent technological advances and audacious thinking, researchers in the field of synthetic biology are redesigning both the molecules that life is made of and life itself. And in turn, they’re in the process of creating aspects of life that are “alien” to life itself. But before we get to that, we need to know what life is. In his new book What is Life?, Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Paul Nurse laid out three principles shared by all life forms. …
For a country aspiring to be a superpower, with more than 250 million children in schools, India’s reluctance to participate in an international student assessment study is confounding.
Indian youngsters are experimenting with newer D2C brands like never before. Bewakoof’s early success and its 2022 acquisition by retail giant Aditya Birla Fashion should have given it the edge, but the company has been left behind.
The earnings of India’s oil refiners and other Nifty 50 companies have taken a hit. But IPO premiums suggest that investors seem unfazed.
For a country aspiring to be a superpower, with more than 250 million children in schools, India’s reluctance to participate in an international student assessment study is confounding.
Indian youngsters are experimenting with newer D2C brands like never before. Bewakoof’s early success and its 2022 acquisition by retail giant Aditya Birla Fashion should have given it the edge, but the company has been left behind.
The earnings of India’s oil refiners and other Nifty 50 companies have taken a hit. But IPO premiums suggest that investors seem unfazed.
