This week, new estimates for the depths of the world’s lakes, a video game that could help kids be safer bike riders, and teaching autonomous cars to read road signs with Online News Editor David Grimm. And Ariana Orvell joins Sarah Crespi to discuss her study of how the word “you” is used when people recount meaningful experiences. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: VisualCommunications/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

The Polarstern research vessel will spend 1 year locked in an Arctic ice floe. Aboard the ship and on the nearby ice, researchers will take measurements of the ice, air, water, and more in an effort to understand this pristine place. Science journalist Shannon Hall joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about her time aboard the Polarstern and how difficult these measurements are, when the researchers’ temporary Arctic home is the noisiest, smokiest, brightest thing around. After that icy start, Sarah talks also with Tanmoy Samanta, a postdoctoral researcher at Peking University in Beijing, about the source of the extreme temperature of the Sun’s corona, which can be up to 1 million K hotter than the surface of the Sun. His team’s careful measurements of spicules—small, plentiful, short-lived spikes of plasma that constantly ruffle the Sun’s surface—and the magnetic networks that seem to generate these spikes, suggest a solution to the long-standing problem of how spicules arise and, at the same time, their likely role in the heating of the corona. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Ads on this week’s show: Bayer Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image: Shannon Hall; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

On this week’s show, Contributing Correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt talks with host Sarah Crespi about modeling coronavirus spread and the role of forecasts in national lockdowns and other pandemic policies. They also talk about the launch of a global trial of promising treatments. See all of our News coverage of the pandemic here. See all of our Research and Editorials here. Also this week, Nadine Gogolla, research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, talks with Sarah about linking the facial expressions of mice to their emotional states using machine learning. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF)

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Around 20 cases are being registered and at least two people are losing their lives almost every minute due to coronavirus across the globe.

The US, Italy and Spain together share almost half the total Covid-19 cases across the globe

The world is adding over 70,000 cases everyday while the daily recoveries are still sub-15,000 on an average in the last three days.

The US remains the most affected country with over 340,000 cases and the death toll at over 11,000

Germany, where 40 per cent of all infected persons are recovering, is doing the best by that metric among the five worst-affected nations

While North America and Europe account for the bulk of all coronavirus cases globally, half of new cases reported in India have come from Delhi, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu alone

Country's death toll consistently rising too, taking just two days to add the last 50 fatalities to the total.

International instances back higher tax liabilities for the rich at times of exigencies.

Several sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, university endowments, limited partners, corporate investors and high net worth individuals have reached out to FPIs and PE fund managers in the last few weeks to convey their decision to partially or fully defer their commitments, people in the know said.

On April 17, the AIIB had doubled its initial COVID-19 Crisis Recovery Facility to $10 billion from $5 billion earlier, which made funds available to its members for urgent economic, financial and public health pressures and quick recovery from the crisis.

Govt will borrow Rs 6L cr from the market via gilts through the remaining part of the first half of the year.

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From manufacturing to selling, change is in the works, says Steffen Knapp of Volkswagen Passenger Cars India

The United States Food and Drug Administration said it was acting against companies and individuals exploiting or taking advantage of widespread fear

There was a time when a ventilator made in India was not considered a ventilator, says Ashok Patel, Managing Director, AB Industries. About 90 per cen

The FCC has clarified that nothing in its rules prohibits remote amateur radio testing, and no prior approval is needed to conduct remote exam sessions.

“The Commission provides flexibility to volunteer examiners and coordinators who wish to develop remote testing methods or to increase remote testing programs already in place,” the FCC said in an April 30 news release. “We recognize that some v...

A senior government official said Cadila Pharmaceuticals closed its Ahmedabad plant as five employees tested positive last week, and 21 this week.

Priyanka Gandhi asked the Uttar Pradesh government to provide insurance cover for journalists.

Their children – a three-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter – survived.

Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced the formation of the China Task Force to investigate the country’s role in the spread of the pandemic.

Karnataka Revenue Minister R Ashok said the government was awaiting consent from other states to send the migrant workers home.

The exams had to be abruptly postponed in March due to a nationwide shutdown to combat the coronavirus outbreak.

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region is the worst-affected region in the country, with over 10,000 reported cases.

The Supreme Court stayed the order after the Centre said it was ‘unworkable’ and passed without consultation.

The trials will be conducted in 21 hospitals across Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, TN, Madhya Pradesh, UP, Punjab, Karnataka, Telangana and Chandigarh.

Iqbal Singh Chahal will now take over Praveen Pardeshi’s post.

The court noted that there was a “blatant violation” of its guidelines regulating the sale of liquor.

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The 22-year-old’s injury had been diagnosed during tests at the club’s medical centre, but didn’t say how long they expect him to be out of action.

‘If we need more forces, we will ask for central forces in order to give some rest to our police,’ he said.

While there is an urgent need for data, false information can be worse than none at all.