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NASA has come up with a new mission who the organization has named as SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment) with an aim to do extensive research and study the solar storms on the Sun. The sole purpose to be is able to reach to a point where it would be able to predict the solar storms which would be used to shield astronauts and space equipment on space trips of long durations to Mars or the Moon. The latest mission from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is built up with six CubeSats which would function as a large single radio telescope. With a deadline set to July 1, 2023, NASA has put in an investment of whopping a total of 62.6 million dollars for the design, built and launch of this SunRISE mission. This SunRISE mission is led by Justin Kasper at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and is being managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Pasadena region in California. Scientists at NASA have designed the mission to s

The question now is whether the world can learn lessons from China's apparent success and whether the authoritarian government's massive lockouts and electronic surveillance would work in other countries. If you're in business for 20 or 30 years, you can't try to change tactics, "said Dr. Michael O'Brien, a Canadian epidemiologist who led the international team and briefed reporters in Beijing and Geneva last week on its findings. Pic Credit: The Wall Street Journal The report comes at a time when many epidemiologists now consider the coronavirus to be a pandemic, and there are also questions about what the virus known as SARS-CoV-2 will do once the country inevitably lifts its strict control measures and relaunches its economy. While Europe and the United States are locked in a fight against COVID-19, caused by another coronavirus, some of the countries that were affected early on by this virus have done a better job of fighting it back than China.

The world's financial markets had their worst week since it became clear that a six-month pandemic could slash expected global GDP growth by $1.1 trillion. As the virus has spread to every continent except Antarctica, and the number of new cases in China continues to grow faster, five trillion dollars could be wiped out in just a few months. Consumers will spend less, people will not be able to work, travel and tourism will fall sharply, and investment will fall, according to the firm, which bases its analysis on previous outbreaks, including SARS and swine flu, based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While global financial markets largely ignored COVID-19 before it spread to China, they reacted sharply as the virus spread around the world, fueling fears of a global pandemic.  While a recession in the global economy may be a foregone conclusion, the COVID 19 risk has priced in what some fear - the worst-case scenario for the US economy in t

China now seems to have survived the worst coronavirus epidemic, as the number of new cases has fallen sharply and life has returned to normal. But China has also used propaganda to gloss over its role in the pandemic. The State Department last week confirmed a conspiracy theory that the virus was brought to China by U.S. soldiers visiting Wuhan in October. The Chinese government has also claimed to have worked hard to contain the disease as soon as it learned of its existence, although there is evidence that Beijing knew of the disease as early as December and did nothing to warn citizens or prevent its spread. Journalists and diplomats have conscientiously reported that China's propaganda agencies have become exuberant in an effort to shift responsibility for the viruses to the US, with China's systems touted as more effective in containing the epidemic than the West's, and China portrayed as the world's savior.   The coronavirus may have inadvertently emer