CDC director Susan Monarez is out after less than a month on the job and other agency leaders resignSusan Monarez is no longer the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Several top agency leaders have resigned. Monare...
28 Aug, 2025, 06.17 AM IST
Trump admin moves to fire hundreds of government scientistsThe Trump administration is planning significant staff reductions at the EPA, targeting over 1,500 scientists in its research arm. This mov...
18 Mar, 2025, 11.43 PM IST
Nobody can ban Bitcoin: Vladimir Putin's comment that fulfilled Bitcoin's $100K dreamBitcoin's rise past the $100,000 mark has drawn global attention, with many attributing the rally to geopolitical shifts and high-profile e...
05 Dec, 2024, 03.53 PM IST
Is Biden-Harris admin risking national security and playing woke games with NASA, here's what scientists sayNASA and other federal agencies are debating the Biden-Harris administration's DEI policies. Opponents contend that emphasizing diversity o...
27 Aug, 2024, 01.24 AM IST
India on top for trust in businesses, NGOs; 4th for media, 5th in governmentThe 24th annual survey, which covered over 32,000 respondents across 28 countries, showed developing countries having a lead over developed...
15 Jan, 2024, 06.48 PM IST
China pushes back at WHO criticism over delayed Wuhan Covid dataAt the heart of the spat among officials between the WHO and China is a new set of data on specimens collected three years ago at the marke...
09 Apr, 2023, 11.27 PM IST
China lashes out at latest US export controls on chipsChinese foreign ministry's spokeswoman Mao Ning said that the U.S. "weaponization and politicization" of science and technology as well as ...
08 Oct, 2022, 03.50 PM IST
China declines WHO Covid 'lab leak' theory, calls it a 'lie'China Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian has rejected accusations that China had not fully cooperated with WHO investigators. And su...
10 Jun, 2022, 03.47 PM IST
American spy agencies say origins of COVID-19 may never be knownSome U.S. spy agencies had strongly favored the explanation that the virus originated in nature. But there has been little corroboration an...
30 Oct, 2021, 11.49 AM IST
China, US diplomats clash over human rights, pandemic originSenior Chinese foreign policy adviser Yang Jiechi and Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a phone call Friday that revealed wide divisio...
12 Jun, 2021, 12.33 PM IST
China brands COVID-19 lab-leak theory as 'absurd,' Blinken urges transparencyYang, China's top diplomat, expressed Beijing's serious concern to Blinken that some people in the United States were spreading the "absurd...
11 Jun, 2021, 10.23 PM IST
Politicizing COVID-19 origin tracing hinders investigations: Chinese embassy in U.S."Lately, some people have played the old trick of political hype on the origin tracing of COVID-19 in the world. Smear campaign and blame-s...
27 May, 2021, 12.31 PM IST
As 2020 campaign enters home stretch, Fauci pulled into frayJust weeks before election day, the Trump campaign released an ad portraying Fauci as praising his actions on the pandemic. This prompted t...
15 Oct, 2020, 01.34 PM IST
At U.N., Xi Jinping says no intention to fight 'a Cold War or hot one' with any countryLong-simmering tensions between the United States and China hit boiling point over the pandemic, spotlighting Beijing's bid for greater mul...
22 Sep, 2020, 09.26 PM IST
Hydroxychloroquine has become highly politicised in US but India uses it widely: White House officialWhite House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Director Peter Navarro told reporters that "the idea that this is a dangerous drug is ...
08 Jul, 2020, 08.26 AM IST
90% of students expelled from IIT-Roorkee belong to reserved categoriesAlmost 90 per cent of the students expelled from IIT-Roorkee for poor academic performance belong to the reserved category, ET has learnt f...
13 Jul, 2015, 10.45 PM IST
- Growing number of US scientists are mobilizing for public office
Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. Now he's he...
10 May, 2008, 06.17 AM IST