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Ancient squirrels ate meat like 'zombies,' and the proof is in the poopFrozen ancient squirrel feces from Canada's Yukon have revealed a lost Ice Age world. These coprolites, dating back up to 700,000 years, co...- In Extreme Cold, Some Animals Survive by Altering Life to an Unimaginably Slow PaceArctic ground squirrels and wood frogs exhibit incredible survival tactics, slowing metabolism to near-death states or tolerating being fro...
- Health Warning: Air pollution kills, usA new Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) study reveals that air pollution caused 1.7 million deaths in India in 2019. The study high...
- Enough S&T rhetoric, India inc, get R&DyNirmala Sitharaman announced GST exemption for research funding in higher educational institutions and research centres with I-T exemptions...
- Sports can push our young out of torporPhysical activity regimes are usually conducted sporadically, if at all. Increasingly for our young, it's on par with 'Eat your greens', so...
- Clap to the slap, in a droopy Oscar showThe Rock-scissors-Smith show may or may not have been scripted. But it did what one good scene in a dull film does - become the sole conver...
- Population potentialWhen America faced down Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, we were the big dog. We had more people, more wealth, and more industrial capaci...
- Raheem Sterling gives England opening win over CroatiaSterling, something of a surprise starter after a flat end to the domestic season but a favourite of manager Gareth Southgate, slid home a ...
- Why hotter inflation failed to shake US markets out of torpor?Fed officials have repeatedly tamped down fears of inflation running persistently higher than its 2% target, while pointing out they have t...
- View: Corporatisation of ordnance factories will unshackle defence manufacturing from its torporIn its present form, OFB has scant autonomy in administrative, financial or other decision-making matters. Once unshackled through corporat...
- Lagarde to get a harsh snapshot of ECB’s economic challengesWith a manufacturing slump threatening to spill over into services, euro-area growth was probably just 0.1 per cent in the third quarter.
- Wild wild Trump is putting bond market to deep sleep; here’s howTreasury traders are facing volumes that are down nearly 5% in the first three weeks of July.
- If being late is a sign of importance, Indians are in esteemed companyComing on time for work in government offices is viewed with particular annoyance by its denizens.
- Astronauts to hibernate for Mars journey?A Nasa-backed study is exploring the feasibility of lowering the cost of a human expedition to Mars by putting the astronauts in deep sleep.
- NASA to put astronauts in deep sleep for Mars mission?A NASA-backed study is exploring the feasibility of lowering the cost of a human expedition to Mars by putting the astronauts in deep sleep.
- Super Sleep?It’s an incident right out of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!: after an argument with his family, a 16-year-old jumps an airport fence in San J...
- Can Arvind Kejriwal make 2014 the year of the unthinkable?Conventional analysis suggests the BJP lead by Narendra Modi will head the next government, but will 2014 be conventional?
- Loss of diesel-rich crude sends oil upSeasoned oil market observers have struggled to find an adequate explanation for the surge in Brent prices over the past fortnight.
- When men dissembleThe greatest moral milestone of our age, perhaps, is that we no longer regard evil as uncommon.
- Strings of unsolicited sitar and jazzmatazzIt's not everyday one gets to hear the two masters of jazz, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter in India.
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