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Aluminium extrusions and the country's gigantic 500 gigawatts renewable en
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 1 (ANI/PNN): The aluminium economy has been at the forefront as the foundation for energy-efficient industries, communities and economies around the world. The active participation of the aluminium industry to optimize the renewable energy structure, promoting gre
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Scientists discover new fossil revealing origin of arthropod breathing sys
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University of Manchester research fellow David Legg, in collaboration with a team of international scientists from China, Switzerland, and Sweden, has announced a new fossil that reveals the origin of gills in arthropods.
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Researchers discover overlooked Jurassic Park of lizards
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
New research published today in eLife by researchers from the Institut Catala de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) and the University of Bristol (UB) moves back the moment of the radiation of squamates the group of reptiles that includes lizards, snakes and worm lizards to the Jurassic
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525-million-year-old fossil contradicts textbook theory of brain evolution
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a new study, fossils of a tiny sea creature with a delicately preserved nervous system solve a century-old debate over how the brain evolved in arthropods, the most species-rich group in the animal kingdom. Combining detailed anatomical studies of the fossilized nervous syste
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Half-a-billion year old fossilised brain of sea creature defies textbook e
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According to a new study, fossils of a tiny sea creature with a delicately preserved nervous system solve a century-old debate over how the brain evolved in arthropods, the most species-rich group in the animal kingdom. Combining detailed anatomical studies of the fossilized nervous system w
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Welsh 'weird wonder' fossils add piece to puzzle of arthropod evolution
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
International team of researchers describe new fossil species discovered in fossil deposit near Llandrindod Wells in mid-Wales. The fossil, Mierridduryn bonniae, shares many features with Cambrian 'weird wonder' Opabinia, but is 40 million years younger. Robust phylogenetic analyses suggest
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From promoting e-vehicles to rational utilization of fossil fuels: India l
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Speaking on low-carbon development strategy, Union Minister Bhupender Yadav said, "In order to enable us to achieve our NDC goals by 2030, we are currently pursuing low-carbon development strategy in all seven sectors. We have not focused on targets. We recognized that various factors may sh
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Climate activists throw black liquid on Gustav Klimt's painting in Vienna
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The latest in a series of protests against the Government's use of fossil fuels, climate activists threw black liquid on the painter Gustav Klimt's artwork 'Death and Life' at the Leopold Museum in Vienna on Tuesday.
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Political leadership has limited impact on fossil fuel taxes, subsidies: S
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Michael L. Ross and his colleagues examined the role of political leaders, including presidents, prime ministers, and monarchs, in raising taxes on and reducing subsidies for gasoline.
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Biden apologises for US pullout from Paris Climate Accord under Trump
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
US President Joe Biden on Friday riding on the Inflation Reduction Act and other measures, affirmed that the US was ready to take back the leadership of fighting a warming planet.
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Study shows Earth's first known mass extinction event 550 million years ag
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial, both because non-biological processes can produce relatively similar structures and because such fossils have often been subjected to advanced alteration and metamorphism. Stromatolites, layered organo-sedimen
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Earth's oldest stromatolites and the search for life on Mars
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial, both because non-biological processes can produce relatively similar structures and because such fossils have often been subjected to advanced alteration and metamorphism. Stromatolites, layered organo-sedimen
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