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How Thousands of Animals Work Together Without Anyone in ChargeMassive animal groups, from wildebeest herds to fish schools and bird flocks, exhibit remarkable coordinated movement without a leader. The...
Jane Goodall Studied Chimpanzees Without a College DegreeJane Goodall, without formal university training, revolutionized primatology by observing chimpanzees with patience and empathy. Her ground...
Animals Build Cities Without Blueprints, and the Science Explains HowNature's architects build without blueprints! From beaver dams to termite mounds and ant cities, complex structures emerge as animals respo...
'There will always only be one Jane Goodall'Jane Goodall, who died at 91, revolutionised primatology with her groundbreaking observations of chimpanzees at Gombe. Her work, revealing ...
Iran's ancient 'wind catchers' beat the heat naturallyYazd, an ancient city in Iran's desert, is known for its tall wind catchers that provide natural cooling without electricity or emissions. ...
Iran's architectural marvel: Ancient 'wind catchers' that harness nature's power to beat the heatThe ancient Persian city of Yazd has developed engineering marvels, such as wind catchers known as badgirs, to stay cool in summer temperat...
Mushrooms saving the planet: From aiding fungal network to being every gourmand's delightTermites need the fungi to consume the forest debris they collect and turn it into an edible form for them.
- Zebras, giraffes, impalas and other evolutionary conundrums (Book Review)
Title: How the Zebra Got its Stripes And Other Darwinian Just So Stories; Author: Leo Grasset (translated by Barbara Mellor); Publisher: Pr...
Space igloos, lava tubes and hobbit holes: Here are our future Martian habitatsThe discovery of liquid water on Mars is great news for would-be settlers, but we'll need more than H2O if we actually want to live there.
Arjun and afterMany, many years from now, it’s possible somebody could say, “Come on, it’s time for your cancer radiation therapy,” and you’re going to ha...
- Endangered anteater rescued
The locals of Nagla Raja village in Etawah district were a confused lot on late Sunday evening when they came across an armored scaly male,...
- Sinhagad forest area has over 1,000 fungi species: Study
A team of city researchers have claimed that there are over 1,000 species of fungi and more than 60 different types of lichens in and aroun...
The God of tiny thingsGod does not necessarily have to be an anthropocentric ultra superior image of man.