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This 14 YO Indian American may have just discovered potential Covid treatment

Anika Chebrolu, a 14-year-old from Texas, has won the 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge for her work on a potential drug to treat COVID-19. The seventh grader would receive $25,000 (approximately Rs 18,61,000) as prize money.  Anika found a molecule that can attach to a protein on the new coronavirus. This could stop the virus […]
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Movie Review: Over The Moon is full of warmth and hope

Science is logical. Science is facts. But science is also the hard truth, and sometimes truth hurts. Where science fails, faith creates magic. Over The Moon is the story of faith, imagination and love.  The story follows a smart, determined girl named Fei Fei. As she struggles to come to terms with the loss of […]
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Listings: Have a fun weekend ahead

Kids, make this weekend a happy and productive one with some fun classes and activities… Magic Beans: Diwali Camp Till November 20 Online Streaming  Let your child have a blast this Diwali at our specially curated online Diwali Camp! This 5-day camp has something new every day from interactive Storytelling to fun No-Fire Cooking, Art […]
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Bria Goeller: The artist and the storyteller

Bria Goeller is an artist from the Bay Area in California, USA. She is an artist, designer, and creator. She believes in the power of storytelling to encourage vulnerability and empathy. Bria maintains her own art practice, teaches and designs unique and sustainable ways of communicating through creative content – like graphics, portraits, custom art, […]
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Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenia-Azerbaijan sign peace deal

After weeks of conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia brokered peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan. More than 1,200 people have lost their lives as per the Nagorno-Karabakh authorities, while thousands have been displaced in the conflict. The peace deal, which was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia’s prime minister Nikol Pashinyan, […]
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Joe Biden is America’s new President

After days of waiting and counting still going on, the Democrat candidate and two time vice-president Joe Biden has been projected as America’s 46th president.  Biden’s Republican opponent and US president Donald Trump, however, has refused to concede, saying the “election is far from over” and that he will not “rest until the American People […]
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Jupiter and Saturn to come closest next month

The year might have been gloomy but 2020 has proved pretty exciting for skygazers. After witnessing a lot of amazing space phenomena, the year will end with the party of a decade. And there would be two planets involved.  Jupiter and Saturn will appear to be shining as one bright star in the night sky […]
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A young artist with a vision

“The world needs artists and designers as much as it does doctors and engineers, because designers have the ability to make life easier and better for the society.” ~ Tamara Divina Esmeralda Borges Tamara is a shy girl when you see her but once you see her art work, there is so much power in […]
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Now you can visit this 129-year-old tunnel in Pakistan

Sometimes you can find treasure in the trash. That’s what happened in Pakistan when people were digging a pit for some plantation in Ayubia National Park. A 100-year-old British-era tunnel was found from a trash mound.  The historic ’Moto Tunnel’ was built 1891 and would still have been buried in a garbage dump and neglect […]
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US Elections: Biden is leading but Trump would not step down so easily

It would be a nail biting finish for the US Presidential race. The Democrat nominee Joe Biden is leading with only a few states remaining to finish the count. But those in the know say that President Donald Trump would not hang his boots so easily.  Trump has said several times how he would not […]