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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Continental melting
Antarctica seems to be melting and contributing to the slow rise of the ocean levels, scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration (NASA)
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Brainy inheritance
Scientists in California and Finland have done what may be the first study that provides estimates of the strength of genetic influences on the size and shape of different parts of the brain. The
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Legal loophole
a loophole in the law could make human cloning legal for scientists in Britain. This loophole, exposed in a uk court by anti-cloning campaigners, has triggered a lot of furore. Following the
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Packing more power
A four atom oxygen molecule might make for good fuel
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FOLLOW UP
The prestigious Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, US , has admitted that one of its researchers used patients at the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) in Kerala as human guinea pigs to
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Cosmic collision
Discovery of a crater sheds new light on the end of many Middle East civilisations
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Walking whales
Recently found fossils provide evidence that mammals were predecessors of whales
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Universally changing
A recent research throws light on the possibility that the laws of physics were different in the past
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Shrouded in controversy
A mountaineering expedition into the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve revives the debate on ecotourism and people s rights over forests.
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Semiconductring magnet
A magnet when heated above its so-called Curie temperature becomes demagnetised. Recently a calcium compound, cab6, doped with lanthanum was reported to have a Curie temperature of about 600