As we usher in a new year, the trends that shaped cities in 2018 are bound to have a ripple effect on the innovations that bloom in 2019.Now that dockless vehicles are a common offering in most metropolitan areas across the U.S.,.....Read more
The Cabinet on Friday cleared the human spaceflight programme (Gaganyaan) being planned by ISRO for a decade. The space research organisation plans to send three astronauts to orbit around the earth for seven days. The mission cost is approximately Rs 10,000 crore and will be executed in 2022. In space technology terms, that’s a very tight deadline. ET explains the finer details of the mission.......Read more
indings from a new study by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) show that patients treated with chemotherapy for most solid tumors during 2000–2014 experienced an increased risk of therapy-related myelodysplastic syndrome/acute myeloid leukemia (tMDS/AML)........Read more
The impacts of climate change are being felt everywhere and are having very real consequences on people’s lives. Climate change is disrupting national economies, costing us dearly today and even more tomorrow. But there is a growing recognition that affordable, scalable solutions are available now that will enable us all to leapfrog to cleaner, more resilient economies......Read more
Excess body weight is responsible for an estimated 544,300 cancers, which is about 3.9% of all cancers in the world, according to research by the American Cancer Society, Imperial College London, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The report uses data from 2012, the latest year information is available........Read more
Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that helps your immune system fight cancer. The immune system helps your body fight infections and other diseases. It is made up of white blood cells and organs and tissues of the lymph system.Immunotherapy is a type of biological therapy. Biological therapy is a type of treatment that uses substances made from living organisms to treat cancer.......Read more
Is your chemotherapy or cancer treatment plan working in the way you hoped for? This is a question that patients and their loved ones have asked each other during the course of treatment. Unfortunately, when patients ask this question of doctors using the traditional model of cancer treatment, the answer they give is almost always “Let's wait and see.”.....Read more
Most of us know about vaccines given to healthy people to help prevent infections, such as measles and chicken pox. These vaccines use weakened or killed germs like viruses or bacteria to start an immune response in the body. Getting the immune system ready to defend against these germs helps keep people from getting infections......Read more
The way we move through the world is undergoing a deep tectonic shift. Ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft have come to dominate a new market, where people pay for miles instead of buying vehicles, and the same model is now, controversially, being applied to scooters.......Read more
Virgin Hyperloop One, a DP World-backed company developing the futuristic transportation concept inspired by Elon Musk, signed an agreement with the Indian State of Maharashtra to build the world’s first hyperloop route between Pune and Mumbai – shrinking the time taken to travel between the two cities from three hours to 25 minutes......Read more
The alarm on your smart phone went off 10 minutes earlier than usual this morning.Parts of the city are closed off in preparation for a popular end of summer event, so congestion is expected to be worse than usual.You’ll need to catch an earlier bus to make it to work on time.....Read more
Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed new details about his futuristic tunnel-boring project during his TED talk on Friday.The Boring Company, Musk's latest venture being led by SpaceX engineer Steve Davis, is working on building a....Read more
Cities have a way to go before they can be considered geniuses. But they’re getting smart pretty fast.In just the past few years, mayors and other officials in cities across the country have begun to draw on....Read more
Hyperloop One is facing some potential competition from its former co-founder and CEO Brogan BamBrogan.BamBrogan and three other former Hyperloop One employees launched a Hyperloop startup , Arrivo, last week. The move....Read more