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Study reveals that the small-sized dragonflies manage to migrate from India to Africa with the help of body fat and favourable winds

Dragonflies fly from India to Africa, "fuelled" by body fat and favourable winds

S.Ravi 2 min read

Representational image. Peat extraction in Estonia. Scientists in that country are studying methods of using peat for making cheaper batteries for electric vehicles

Can decomposed peat be used for making cheap Electric Vehicle batteries?

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Latest study of chimpanzees in Africa's Guinea-Bissau and Ivory Coast has revealed incidence of leprosy among some of them

Leprosy, mankind’s age-old scourge affects chimpanzees too, reveals an international study

S.Ravi 3 min read

Representational image. Bhopal buses will run on bio-CNG fuel produced by using waste collected in the city soon as the municipal authorities have signed a MoU with NTPC and Bhopal RNG Private Limited

Bhopal's go-green drive takes wings with new waste-to-fuel facility

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Considered to be solitary, a recent study found jaguars to hunt and play together in Brazil (Pic. Courtesy Twitter/@LoroParque)

Study reveals a new facet of jaguars' personality as they hunt and play together

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The hatchling, which has two heads and three legs on each side, came from Barnstable protected nesting (Pic. Courtesy bostonglobe.com)

Conjoined turtles with two heads learn how to swim and survive

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The charred tobacco seeds discovered by archaeologists which are 12,300-year-old, in the mudflats of Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert have changed the timeline of tobacco use by humans (Pic. Courtesy smithsonianmag.com)

Use of tobacco goes back more than 12,000 years, says new study

S.Ravi 3 min read

Indian scientists use tea & banana waste to make non-toxic activated carbon

In a first, Indian scientists use tea & banana waste to make non-toxic activated carbon

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The analysis of DNA of dog pups thousands of years ago shows that there was interbreeding between the local species of Siberia and those from Europe and the Near East (Pic. Courtesy American Kennel Club)

Siberian dogs reveal secret of ancient trade links between snowy Arctic and the Caspian Sea

S.Ravi 2 min read

Vinisha Umashankar who has made it to the finalists of Prince William's Earthshot Prize, with her Iron Max, a solar-power ironing cart

School girl and climate activist from India figure in finalists for Prince William’s Earthshot Prize

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Half of the world's estimated 100 million parrots are in captivity, with a majority of them in private homes while more than 40 per cent of those in the wild are threatened or near threatened

Brainy parrots may need psychological help when kept captive

S.Ravi 4 min read

Orangutans were the first species to diverge from the ape lineage and also the only ones to use consonant and vowel like sounds, that too in a complex style and manner and thus providing a parallel with human speech

How Orangutan's can communicate loud and clear despite thick forest cover and distance

S.Ravi 4 min read

This image of “Kodiak” – one remnant of the fan-shaped deposit of sediments inside Mars’ Jezero Crater known as the delta – was taken by Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z instrument (Pic. Courtesy NASA)

NASA mission sheds more light on Mars crater’s river link

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Phobys is an augmented reality based app which helps people to get over their mortal fear of spiders (Pic. Courtesy smithsonianmag.com)

Augmented Reality Helps People To Overcome The Fear Of Spiders!

S.Ravi 3 min read

Power Grid Corporation of India has commissioned the transmission lines to carry solar power from Rajasthan to Delhi. (Representational Image)

Transmission lines to carry solar power from Rajasthan to Delhi, other states commissioned for use

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Syukuro Manabe is one of three scientists who will receive this year's Nobel Prize for Physics

Three scientists share the Nobel Prize for Physics for pioneering research on climate change

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The domestic cat hunt due to their predatory instinct and not for food according to a study (Pic. Courtesy Twitter/@ Mammal_Society)

Domestic Cats Hunt To Satisfy Their Killer Instinct And Not For Food

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Shri Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare launches i-Drone

Drones start delivering vaccines in North East states to reach last-mile Indian

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An image of Mercury taken by the BepiColombo spacecraft. Image tweeted by @esaoperations

Europe’s BepiColombo mission to Mercury sends back first photos of planet

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A new study at the Center for Neuroscience at the University of California, Davis on brain imaging reflects that the brain's storyteller is the hippocampus as it connects and joins separate and even distant events to give them the shape of a single narrative (Pic. Courtesy wikimedia commons)

Research identifies hippocampus as brain’s storyteller

S.Ravi 3 min read

Molnupiravir, a new Covid-19 drug, reduces the risk of hospitalization and death. (Photo: Reuters)

Pharma giant Merck’s new pill can be game-changer in war on Covid, 5 Indian firms to produce drug too

Sushant Maji 2 min read

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