Category: Science

When, in 1960, the British primatologist Jane Goodall first observed chimpanzees at Gombe National Park in Tanzania using twigs to fish termites out of anthills, she was making scientific history. Researchers had until then believed only humans could use tools. Goodall’s discovery erased that line as well as raised important questions about what it means…

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Before we begin This is a story about gallium’s discovery and how it played a part in the acceptance of the then newly invented periodic table. Gallium was discovered by French chemist Paul-Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran and you probably associate the periodic table with Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. Why then are you staring at the…

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The World Health Organisation recognises snakebite envenomation as a “neglected tropical disease”. It causes between 81,000 to 138,000 deaths globally every year, and four-times the number are left with physical disabilities. And “India bears the largest burden of snakebite envenomation globally, accounting for nearly half of the world’s snakebite deaths,” per a new study in…

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A large study in the UK has reported that children and adolescents are at substantially more risk of developing heart inflammation, blood clots, and other vascular and inflammatory diseases after COVID-19 infection than after vaccination. The study, published recently in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, drew on the health records of nearly 14 million individuals…

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