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China's pressure on French museums sparks UN warning over Tibet's 'erasure
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights has raised serious concerns over the erasure of the word Tibet from French museum collections, cautioning that the replacement with Beijing-endorsed terms such as "Xizang" and "Himalayan World" undermines Tibetans' cultural heritage an
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Scientists recover RNA from an extinct species for the first time
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
A new study demonstrated the isolation and sequencing of RNA molecules from a Tasmanian tiger specimen kept at room temperature in a museum collection over a century ago.
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