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‘Stupid’ extinct bird dodo may walk again after 300 years thanks to scientific breakthroughColossal Biosciences is making strides in de-extinction, successfully growing pigeon germ cells, a crucial step towards resurrecting the do...
18 Sep, 2025, 11.45 AM IST
Quirky vegetable sculpture contest features squash Trump, papal 'Cornclave'The Lambeth Country Show in London showcased creative vegetable sculptures. Likenesses of Donald Trump, Dolly Parton, and others were on di...
08 Jun, 2025, 12.49 AM IST
When euphemisms get tasty: How people have used words to combat food taboosFood euphemisms help with marketing too. Patagonian toothfish is delicious, but was never going to look good on menus; as Chilean sea bass,...
21 Jul, 2024, 03.38 PM IST
Curtain call: From 'Friends' star Matthew Perry to Lisa Marie Presley, influential people who passed away in '23A list of celebs who left us in 2023.
04 Dec, 2023, 11.35 PM IST
Snout as easy as it looks. That pigs can play video games is remarkable - try doing so with a noseOperating a joystick with a snout and yet keeping an eye on the screen is a pretty tall order.
17 Feb, 2021, 08.40 AM IST
Here's the list of some of the famous living creatures that were patentedThe Roslin Institute researchers who did the cloning tried to patent Dolly, her offspring, and the process of cloning her.
06 Aug, 2017, 12.39 AM IST
Animals seem to get ranked according to human associationsThis year we have been reminded about the contribution of at least one member of the caprid species, deciding in favour of sheep would be a...
24 Feb, 2015, 01.24 AM IST
- Animal health and welfare is experts' focus at Bangalore event
Scientists from Scotland's research university will play a key role at an event aimed at improving animal health and welfare in India.
17 Feb, 2014, 07.24 PM IST
The cloning controversyThe birth of Dolly the cloned sheep reminded bioethicist Leon Kass of William Blake's poem. Like all her fluffy predecessors, Dolly had the...
27 Oct, 2010, 12.00 AM IST
On what's sacred and what's notPlaying God is something science has to deal with all the time. So how should we, the people supposedly out of its ambit yet enjoying the b...
17 Mar, 2009, 03.12 AM IST
- Asia Pacific hot zone for pharma
A third of Asia’s drugmakers want to buy other pharmaceutical companies as they seek a bigger share of the $643 billion global market, a ne...
09 Aug, 2007, 04.34 AM IST