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Diving birds more prone to extinction: Scientists
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Diving birds like penguins, puffins and cormorants may be more prone to extinction than non-diving birds, according to a new study by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath. The authors suggest this is because they are highly specialised and therefore less able to adapt to
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Scientists study 155 new genes to see how humans continue to evolve
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Nearly 7 million years ago, modern humans diverged from our chimpanzee ancestors, yet we have since continued to evolve. Within the human lineage, 155 novel genes that spontaneously developed from little fragments of our DNA have been discovered. A handful of these "microgenes" are projected
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Study sheds light on the origin of complex life forms
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers have succeeded in cultivating a special archaeon and characterizing it more precisely using microscopic methods. This member of the Asgard archaea exhibits unique cellular characteristics and may represent an evolutionary 'missing link' to more complex life forms such as animals
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Study reveals Climatic change doesn't necessarily bring evolution in speci
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a study published in the journal named 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences', researchers observed that long-held theories of climate change being drivers of evolutionary upheaval in species are not fully accurate.
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Ants shed light on predicting evolution after hybridization
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers at the University of Helsinki found that after multiple hybridisation events between two wood ant species distinct hybrid populations evolved independently towards the same direction, suggesting hybridisation is predictable.
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Powerhouse Ventures leads USD 1.1M Round into Bigyellowfish, an Employee E
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], December 21 (ANI/NewsVoir): Leading employee experience platform, Bigyellowfish, has secured USD 1.1 million as part of its seed funding to fuel the next level of growth and product evolution.
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Study finds how humans continue to evolve with new genes
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Even though we diverged from our chimpanzee ancestors about 7 million years ago, we are still evolving today. The human lineage has 155 novel genes that spontaneously developed from little fragments of our DNA. Some of these novel "microgenes" are thought to be linked to diseases that are un
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Study reveals diving birds are more prone to extinction
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Diving birds like penguins, puffins and cormorants may be more prone to extinction than non-diving birds, according to a new study by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath. The authors suggest this is because they are highly specialised and therefore less able to adapt to
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World Bank cuts 2022 China growth forecast to 2.7 pc from 4.3 pc predicted
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
In a report -- Navigating Uncertainty, China's Economy in 2023 -- by World Bank, the lender said that confronted with the most widespread outbreaks since the beginning of the pandemic, the continued evolution of China's public health policies will be crucial, both to mitigate public health r
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Ancient asteroid grains provide insight into evolution of our solar system
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The UK's national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, was used by a large, international collaboration to study grains collected from a near-Earth asteroid to further our understanding of the evolution of our solar system.
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Linking fossil climate proxies to living bacteria helps climate prediction
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Microbial skins are made out of lipids - fatty molecules - which can be preserved as fossils telling us stories about how these microbes lived in the past.
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Astronomers discover clues about stellar 'glitching'
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Astronomers have found a way to peer into the physics of some of the brightest stars in the sky. Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, an international team of researchers has found new evidence that red giants, dying stars that have exhausted their supply of hydrogen and are in the
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