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A museum rock was forgotten for 30 years in a drawer in Japan. Now, its hidden bones may uncover a new 66-million-year-old sea monsterResearchers in Japan have identified four previously overlooked mosasaur bones from rock samples collected in the early 1990s. One bone is ...
Neanderthals disappeared about 40,000 years ago, but their DNA may now be helping some modern humans build more muscleA genetic variant inherited from Neanderthals boosts muscle mass in certain modern humans. This variant impacts the signaling of growth hor...
India aims to reach 155 GW of installed wind energy capacity by 2035: Union minister JoshiIndia is targeting 100 gigawatts of wind energy by 2030 and 155 gigawatts by 2035. A new digital portal, WT-MARUT, has been launched to str...
Enormous octopuses dominated Earth's prehistoric seas over 100 million years agoAncient oceans were once ruled by enormous octopus relatives. New research reveals these early creatures were massive, dominant hunters. Fo...
How the ‘Cretaceous Kraken’ hunted 100 million years ago: Inside the deadly feeding style of the 62-foot giant octopusGiant octopus Cretaceous Kraken: Ancient giant octopuses, Nanaimoteuthis, with arms up to 19 meters, were apex predators in the Late Cretac...
Sustainable future needs critical minerals, but even more, it needs global cooperationCritical minerals will play a critical role in shaping a sustainable future economy provided there is strong global political cooperation.
Argentina and Chile new economic superpowers? Vicuña mineral discovery marks largest copper, gold, and silver findA major mineral deposit discovered in the Andes Mountains along the Argentina-Chile border contains significant quantities of copper, gold,...
Japan discovers game-changing metal that boosts Hydrogen output by 1,000%—world closer to fossil-free futureJapanese researchers at the RIKEN Institute have discovered a cost-effective and sustainable method for producing green hydrogen. They modi...
Natural Hydrogen could change the world, if we understood itA rising trend of wildcatters finding seeps of natural hydrogen is challenging the conventional wisdom that pure hydrogen is rare in nature...
Nobel-winning lithium battery inventor John Goodenough dies at 100John Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the lithium-ion battery that revolutionized modern life, has d...
Sudan reflects the grave dangers of mismanaging resources — climate change has only deepened its economic schisms: Harry Verhoeven"Consider agriculture in Sudan — this was also dominated by the small elite and policies made around it, instead of seeking to feed the cou...
Is EV the new IT in India?It is projected that the EV industry in India will lead to ten million new jobs in the next seven years. It just might be the next great op...
2019: More bird mysteries unravelled as warming hit avian flightRevelations that bird species across the world are shrinking in size, and that the North American continent has lost a quarter of its avian...
For climate's sake: Green energy eyes $200 billion investment to add 175 GW by 2022A 'YieldCo' is a publicly listed company that is formed to own assets that generate a predictable cash flow, primarily through long-term co...
- 81 million year old teeth of dinosaur found in Nagasaki
Two fossilised teeth of a carnivorous dinosaur existing in Japan have been found from 81 million years old layer of earth in Nagasaki, rese...
Eureka moment eludes natural gas pricingWe need far greater domestic gas price discovery via regular quotes and make use of indicative prices from the largest gas exporter, Russia.
Gas market has to develop before it can workThe revised price surely needs to incentivise the revving up of domestic gas output in promising, albeit unconventional, areas in the deepe...
- Human error: Man-made ecological disasters
The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is now about the size of Puerto Rico. It has already reached the marshes of Louisiana. As environmental...
- Industrious revolution and Indian agriculture
Indian agricultural policy over the last few decades has shifted focus away from productivity, trade and markets to subsidising low product...
- Coal still rules ahead of crude oil and natural gas
You are playing crude oil and natural gas futures. You love ethanol. But if you haven’t got a fix on coal, your energy sector portfolio suc...