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A new generation of fear entrepreneurs in the IT industry are promoting anxieties and fatalism about the threat quantum computing poses to the future of encrypted data, cyber-security and our way of life dubbed Quantum Apocalypse.

During a first-of-its-kind COVID-19 human-challenge trial, healthy young individuals who were purposely subjected to the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 had minor symptoms, if any at all. This kind of trials offer a once-in-a-lifetime chance to research viral infections from beginning to end, but they are contentious due to the hazards they entail to patients. The study verifies findings from previous COVID-19 investigations.

When American journalist Celia Farber courageously published, in Harper’s Magazine (March 2006) the article “Out of control—AIDS and the corruption of medical science,” some readers probably attempted to reassure themselves that this “corruption” was an isolated case. This is very far from the truth. It is only the tip of the iceberg. Corruption of research is a widespread phenomenon currently found in many major, supposedly contagious health problems.

Tata Steel is set to face a criminal probe in Netherlands over the release of ‘hazardous’ pollutants. Tata said it will comply with the prosecutor's office and is looking forward to the investigation's findings.

Serbia has cancelled a huge deal with Rio Tinto, an Australian firm, following the deportation of Novak Djokovic from Australia.

A therapist from Florida has expressed her worries over facemasks being related to speech delays within young children. Her claims have been backed up by quite alarming statistics.

There has been a fair bit of ruckus surrounding Nancy Pelosi's son who has gotten himself exposed quite recently. Concerns have been raised over his connections to the criminal underworld.

A simulation of a theory based catastrophe of bankers collapsing the financial system was conducted fairly recently. There was a striking similarity between this event and the infamous "Event 201" that was held in late 2019.

In 1999, a young PhD candidate in philosophy named Nick Bostrom published an article in Mind entitled “The Doomsday Argument is Alive and Kicking.” The article asked whether probabilistic attempts to predict when the last human being would be born were reasonable. (They were, it argued.) The title, however, signaled something far more significant: the end of post–Cold War optimism. Human extinction was back on the menu.

According to sources, Bharat Biotech is picking up unused stocks of Covid-19 vaccine, Covaxin, and updating the expiry date on the labels.