PETALING JAYA: Faced with the deadly Covid-19 virus, the government implemented the movement control order (MCO) as a lesser measure to contain the pandemic. The MCO was favoured to a full lockdown as the latter might cause deep inconvenience to the people. While the move, as a preliminary measure to counter the spread of the…
During its 63rd session, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) accepted all recommendations from the 42nd meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD). This effectively brings twelve psychoactive substances, including eleven New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) and one medicine, under international control. Given the potential for dependence or abuse and known adverse…
Human motor control has always been efficient at executing complex movements naturally, efficiently, and without much thought involved. This is because of the existence of motor synergy in the central nervous system (CNS). Motor synergy allows the CNS to use a smaller set of variables to control a large group of muscles; thereby simplifying the…
The growing sense of urgency around development of fusion technology for energy production in the United States got another boost this week with the release of a community consensus report by a diverse group of researchers from academia, government labs, and industry. High among its recommendations is development of a pilot fusion power plant, an…
Scania, part of Volkswagen’s Traton group, said Wednesday it was halting most of its European truck production following disruptions in the supply chain as a result of the coronavirus. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-scania-halt-europe-truck-production.html Views: 0
The 2020 Abel prize was awarded to mathematicians Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis for their use of probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics Read More https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237832-mathematicians-who-revealed-the-power-of-random-walks-win-abel-prize/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home Views: 0
The email is from someone you think is a co-worker in another department at your company, who like you, has suddenly found herself teleworking from home without the usual group of colleagues to help review things. She’s asking your advice on a document attached to the email. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-cyber-hygiene-email-safe-virtual.html Views: 0
It is somewhat incredible to think that Facebook only recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. Before Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004, the concepts of “news feeds,” “status updates,” and “sharing” were limited to relatively rudimentary platforms like MySpace, Friendster, group emails and early blogging. Just 10 years later, Facebook — and social media in general…
Austria Airlines, a subsidiary of the Lufthansa group, said Monday that it will suspend all of its regular flights from Thursday owing to a sharp drop in demand stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-austrian-airlines-flights-thursday-coronavirus.html Views: 0
German airline group Lufthansa on Monday said it was slashing its long-haul capacity by 90 percent as the industry grapples with the devastating fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-lufthansa-slash-long-haul-capacity-virus.html Views: 0