IPL Points Table: SRH climbed to No. 5 after defeating RR by eight wickets.© BCCI/IPL SunRisers Hyderabad beat Rajasthan Royals by eight wickets to keep their play-off hopes alive in Dubai on Thursday. After a three-wicket haul from Jason Holder in his first match of the season helped SRH restrictContinue Reading
IPL 2020, RR vs SRH: Manish Pandey remained unbeaten on 83, Vijay Shankar on 52.© Twitter SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) skipper David Warner was full of praise for batsmen Manish Pandey and Vijay Shankar, who stitched an unbeaten partnership of 140 runs against Rajasthan Royals (RR) on Thursday. The stand helpedContinue Reading
giuseppelombardo/Shutterstock After a fairly relaxed summer, more and more places are bringing back tighter restrictions in response to rising COVID-19 cases, with some even returning to full or near-full lockdowns. We all know that social distancing makes sense: the fewer people we meet (and the further away from them weContinue Reading
RR vs SRH IPL 2020 Score: Jason Holder picked three wickets, while conceding 33 runs.© BCCI/IPL SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) have been handed a target of 155 runs by Rajasthan Royals (RR), who finished with a total of 154 runs for the loss of six wickets. Sanju Samson was the highestContinue Reading
EPA/Larry W Smith As election day approaches in the US, journalists around the world are working in the most challenging environment of their lifetimes. This will be no ordinary election, not only because COVID-19 has changed the way Americans vote, with 45 million ballots already cast by mail, but alsoContinue Reading
microstock3D/Shutterstock For those of us who insist on seeing the glass half full, even when the miserable brigade point out that it’s also half empty, COVID-19 poses particular challenges. In regular times, our relentless optimism wins us friends and provides us with a host of benefits including higher levels ofContinue Reading
Even before Donald Trump was elected US president in 2016, researchers who study democratic backsliding, the rise of authoritarian regimes and their policies, feared his “America first” agenda would pose a serious threat to democratic norms and the rule of law. In office, the president repeatedly refused to commit toContinue Reading
PongMoji/Shutterstock Donald Trump’s brief stay in hospital in early October raised awareness – once again – of the variety of treatments being investigated for COVID-19. Some therapies the president received have been on the radar for a long time, others are new to the list of potential treatments. Notably, drugsContinue Reading
Artist's conception of the Milky Way galaxy, which should contain dark matter haloes. Nick Risinger/NASA The search for dark matter – an unknown and invisible substance thought to make up the vast majority of matter in the universe – is at a crossroads. Although it was proposed nearly 70 yearsContinue Reading
Hybrid parrots in Costa Rica. Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock How did some animals form wings to fly? – Year Five class, London, UK Perhaps the first thing you notice when you see a bird is its amazing ability to fly. Modern birds fly using their “arms”, which have feathers and very strongContinue Reading
