To save the planet, first save elephants
Wiping out all of Africa’s elephants could accelerate Earth’s climate crisis by allowing 7% more damaging greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, scientists say. But conserving forest elephants may reverse
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bi-advantages: As per researchers from Canada's York University, bilingualism is useful not only because it makes it possible to talk to more number of people. They have found that bilinguals perform
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Master of all
Leonardo da Vinci was the creator of natural plastic
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Scientist gets jail term
A us scientist, who triggered a bioterrorism scare by illegally shipping back bubonic plague samples he collected from Tanzania last year, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment by a Texas
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Landing on the red planet
The world s powers celebrated Christmas 2003 in style: they sent robotic geologists to the red planet Mars, Earth s uninviting and hostile neighbour. Two major space faring powers, the European Union and the US, extended their race for space supremacy to
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Perfect model?
New method to forecast monsoon early
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In interstellar space
It was launched in 1977, the year rock icon Elvis Presley died of a heart attack. Now, scientists are wondering if space probe Voyager 1 has broken the ultimate record of space endurance. They say
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Time not ripe
Embattled Blair may put GM crops on the backburner
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Smooth as silk
How silkworms work
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Re counted
Standards to assess radiation induced cancer are correct
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Home made potash
New Technology will help save foreign exchange