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Which Way Will the Pandemic Swing? UK Body Offers Four Scenarios

Banjot Kaur 15/02/2022

For all four possibilities, vaccines are key and masks...

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Coronavirus Updates, March 9: 3 y.o. Tests Positive in Kochi

The Wire Staff 09/03/2020

Important updates through the day about the spread of...

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Coronavirus: Why Are Scientists Uploading Genetic Data to a Global Database?

The Wire Staff 08/03/2020

The answer begins with a simple truism: change is...

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The Hidden Mutations That Could Help You Evolve Better

Pratik Pawar 20/08/2019

Noted evolutionary biologists like Stephen Jay Gould and others...

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How the Ferocious Tasmanian Devils Are Beating a Deadly Infectious Cancer

Neelakshi Varma 22/10/2016

The results of a new study suggest that the...