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Domestic dogs have significantly smaller brains than their wolf ancestors. Researchers have long known that dogs’ brains shrank in the…

Rhabdoblatta subsparsa (Walker, 1868). | Photo Credit: Special arrangement India is home to 191 species of cockroaches and 119 of these…

An Indian researcher based in Japan has named a newly discovered large structure of galaxies after Manipur’s Loktak Lake, seeking…

A condition which affects not just humans, but also animals and plants, albinism is a result of little or no…

For most of the last two centuries, we have not had to think much about electricity. At the start of…

“Cloudy with a chance of rain” — imagine astronomers turning into meteorologists and issuing weather reports like this, but for…

People from Bengaluru should not be allowed to complain about their weather turning hot. The other day, as a namma friend called…

Normally, empty space appears empty. But at extremely high energy, QED predicts that a sufficiently powerful electromagnetic field can stir…

Scientists identified 9,945 “priority species” that are evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered, including the Ginkgo biloba. | Photo Credit: VDCM…

The recent success of Ensitrelvir at preventing COVID-19 is a milestone in a drug quest that began with a singular…