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A chronicle of a different way of engaging with the natural universe, communicated in the language of the fishers.
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This isn’t the beginning of the end of Alzheimer’s, but perhaps it should be the end of the anti-amyloid drug pathway.
Male lions live a life far more vulnerable. One in two male lions die in the first year of life. From the moment a male lion is born it faces a gauntlet of challenges – from snakebite and hungry hyenas to infanticide at the hands of other male lions.
In 'Interstellar', Harvard professor Avi Loeb argues that searching for alien technology on Earth may save our species.
Invasive alien species affect all world regions, including Antarctica. The IPBES assessment says that 34% of the impacts are reported in the Americas, 31% in Europe and Central Asia, 25% in Asia and the Pacific, and 7% in Africa.
Certain developments set alarm bells ringing, such as ISRO's attempts to entwine itself with a particular religious narratives by allowing the Chandrayaan landing site to be named “Shiv Shakti”.
Saha, and later Narlikar, studied Sanskrit texts and debunked claims that are now being popularised by the linked of ISRO helmsman S. Somanath.
Native pollinators are key to both ecology and agriculture, but have yet to get their due.