Frankenstein’s hunchback assistant, Igor, was not in the original novel by Mary Shelley but has become as famous as the mad ...

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Prayagraj: In a remarkable achievement, 19 teachers of the Allahabad University (AU) have made it to the top 2% of the scientists of the world. Every year, Stanford University, USA issues a list ...

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Was it the raccoon dog? The palm civet? The hoary bamboo rat? Scientists have narrowed a shortlist of animals most likely to have spread Covid-19 to humans Scientists have fresh evidence to help ...

An ambitious effort to understand the Earth’s climate over the past 485 million years has revealed a history of wild shifts and far hotter temperatures than scientists previously realized ...

Scientists believe they've uncovered the true origin of the Covid pandemic — and have rejected the popular theory that the virus was leaked from a laboratory. A major international study ...

An international team of scientists published a peer-reviewed paper Thursday saying genetic evidence indicates the coronavirus pandemic most likely originated with a natural spillover from an ...

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One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

They are often confused with marine plankton, and enter the food chain. Humans have been eating, drinking and even breathing plastic for decades. Only 20 years ago, a group of scientists introduced ...