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Sadiq Khan was the fifth child out of seven brothers and one sister. (File) London: Sadiq Khan, who was Saturday re-elected for a record third term as London mayor, rose from humble roots to spar with world leaders and bring consequential change to the British capital. The 53-year-old Labour party politician — a former human…
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Evolution is often thought to take over hundreds or thousands of years. But a recent study has found a species of frog which has evolved over within about 25 years. The adaptation was spurred by salt. Researchers collected wood frog eggs from nine populations and allowed them to hatch into tadpoles. Whether populations of tadpoles…
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Evidence from archaeological sites in the medieval English city of Winchester shows that English red squirrels once served as an important host for Mycobacterium leprae strains that caused leprosy in people according to a study published in the journal Current Biology. Leprosy is one of the oldest recorded diseases in human history and is still prevalent to this…
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Evidence from archaeological sites in the medieval English city of Winchester shows that English red squirrels once served as an important host for Mycobacterium leprae strains that caused leprosy in people according to a study published in the journal Current Biology. Leprosy is one of the oldest recorded diseases in human history and is still prevalent to this…
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The H5N1 virus has had a single point of introduction in late 2023 and spread undetected among cattle in the U.S. What started as a mystery disease in one cattle herd in Texas in March and quickly confirmed as Avian Influenza A H5N1 has now quickly grown to 36 herds across nine states in the…
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As proposed by Charles Darwin in the nineteenth century, natural selection, the engine that drives evolution, is how species adapt to their environments. Unlike the Neo-Darwinist consensus, the American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis did not believe that random genetic mutations were the sole cause of inherited variation. She came up with a new theory called…
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Lucknow Super Giants fast bowler Mayank Yadav. | Photo Credit: Sandeep Saxena Lucknow Super Giants’ young pace sensation Mayank Yadav is likely to miss the rest of the Indian Premier League (IPL) season, team head coach Justin Langer confirmed in Lucknow on May 5. Speaking on the eve of his side’s clash against Kolkata Knight…
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Kolkata Knight Riders’ fast bowler Mitchell Starc celebrates during the match against Mumbai Indians in Mumbai on May 3, 2024. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini Every time Mitchell Starc runs in donning the Kolkata Knight Riders’ purple this season, more than his craft, it’s the mind-boggling bid of ₹24.75 crore that is discussed. Add to…
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A video of over-enthusiastic fans mobbing SunRisers Hyderabad stars Heinrich Klaasen and Jaydev Unadkat is going viral on social media. The team is currently in great form in the IPL 2024 and are fourth in the points table. Sunrisers, in this edition of the IPL, have been a force to reckon with. Their power-hitting, thanks…
FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Paytm app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo | Photo Credit: Dado Ruvic Paytm’s parent company One97 Communications president and chief operating officer Bhavesh Gupta has resigned from the company, an official statement said on Saturday. As part of a change in…
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