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Over 1,500 bat species carry thousands of deadly viruses but rarely get sick, and scientists are only just beginning to understand whyBats possess a unique, preactivated innate immune defense that stops viruses from fully replicating, even after cell entry. This remarkable...
Rare Pulaosaurus qinglong fossil suggests some dinosaurs may have sounded like birds and shared similar vocal anatomyA newly discovered fossil of Pulaosaurus qinglong, a small plant-eating dinosaur, reveals a bony voice box similar to modern birds. This fi...
How A 407-Million-Year-Old Fossil From Scotland Revealed One Of Earth’s Oldest Plant-Fungus PartnershipsA remarkable fossil from Scotland, dating back 407 million years, reveals a previously unknown fungus, Rugososporomyces lavoisierae, living...
Towering Ancient Fossils May Represent Entirely New Form of LifeA 150-year-old fossil, Prototaxites, once thought to be a giant fungus or plant, is now believed to be an entirely extinct lineage of compl...
Neanderthals’ meat-only diet should have killed them; scientists finally reveal how maggot menu kept them aliveNew research suggests Neanderthals may have supplemented their meat-heavy diets with maggots and fermented animal foods. Chemical signature...
Birthday Gifts for Mom: Thoughtful Ideas to Make Her Day SpecialFinding the best birthday gift for your mom can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be. Consider her passions and preferences to choose ...
Breaking our plastics habit is easier said than doneWe produce some 400 million metric tons of plastics year in, year out. Except for the roughly 9% that’s recycled and 12% that’s incinerated...
China fossils reveal that parrot-like feathered dinos once roamed the earth!Unearthed in northeastern China, the nearly complete fossil, dating to roughly 130 million years ago, is of a juvenile Psittacosaurus (pron...
CO2 reaches its highest level in more than 4 million yearsThree centuries ago, before the beginning of the industrial age, geological records show that number was 280 ppm. In other words, by burnin...
Research shows that dinosaur, which lived 76 mn years ago, got cancer tooCancer, however, may not have killed the Centrosaurus.
- Tata Chemicals buys 35% in Singapore’s JOil
TATA Chemicals has agreed to invest S$25 million for a 35% equity stake in JOil (Singapore), a jatropha seedling company.
- DARL the new darling of the Forces
The DARL at Pithoragarh, has attained a breakthrough in developing an oil-yielding jatropha germplasm.