Month: August 2018

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China Issues Flood Alert to India Over Rising Water Level in Siang River

The Wire Staff 31/08/2018

While 30 people stranded on an island in Arunachal have...

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Ancient Teenager the First Known Person with Parents of Two Different Species

Michelle Langley 31/08/2018

Ancient DNA in a 50,000+ year old bone tells...

“I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops” – Steven Jay Gould. Credit: Kayle Kaupanger/Unsplash

A Powerful Idea: Poverty Affects Basic Cognitive Abilities

Leslee Lazar 31/08/2018

If you work harder, change your attitude and get...

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Failure Of UP Administration Led To Death Of Children In Gorakhpur: NGT

The National Green Tribunal has rapped the Uttar Pradesh...

Research on coral reefs published by scientists at the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has been found to have plagiarised content, some of it wrong and misleading.

Idea Plagiarism and Ethics in Competitive Research

Praveen Chaddha 30/08/2018

Idea plagiarism can result in an undeserving person being...

We have ancient ancestors to thank for the cheese we eat today. Credit: Pixabay

The Surprising Role Cheese Played in Human Evolution

Penny Bickle 30/08/2018

Archaeologists have discovered the world's oldest cheese, and it...

Through poems and creation myths, the metaphor of the sea seems evermore to be passing into actuality. Credit: Pexels/pixabay

The Sea, the Sea! The Primordial Metaphor That Has Stayed With Science

Binit Priyaranjan 30/08/2018

The progress of scientific knowledge has revealed a cluster...