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India needs a risk-based approach to food adulteration: Sukhvinder Pal Singh

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India needs a risk-based approach to food adulteration: Sukhvinder Pal Singh

Australia-based food-safety scientist Sukhvinder Pal Singh, whose roots hail from a family of farmers in Una, Himachal Pradesh, is a senior research scientist with the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, in Ourimbah. Fondly called SP Singh, at 46, he leads research on fresh-produce safety and traceability. His work following Australia’s deadly 2018 Listeria (bacteria…

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New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century

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New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century

 A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia’s ​cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally ‌named and described in more than a century. The cat, called Tilcayo by local communities, is ​part of a group called tiger cats found across much…

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Science For All Newsletter: Cities on the moon may run dry far faster than space barons think

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Science For All Newsletter: Cities on the moon may run dry far faster than space barons think

As NASA and China speed up their lunar space programmes, a more-than-temporary human settlement on the moon inches closer to reality. Space agencies with these plans are targeting the moon’s south pole region, where permanently shadowed craters are supposed to hold large quantities of water ice, which a human base can use as a water…

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Biotechnology and healthcare: where we are in India, and where we need to go

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Biotechnology and healthcare: where we are in India, and where we need to go

Biotechnology, when I was a student in the early 1970s, was test tubes, pipettes, culture plates and microscopes. Today, however, biotechnology is no longer just a laboratory discipline. It is a platform for technologies that power healthcare, agriculture, industrial manufacturing and environmental solutions. Biotechnology today is an integrated inter and multi-disciplinary science where biology has…

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Why are moths attracted to bright lights?

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Why are moths attracted to bright lights?

For an insect flying at night, the brightest part of the natural environment is usually the sky, including the moon and stars. | Photo Credit: Max Kleinen/Unsplash — Delin Paul Recent research has actually suggested that this description is misleading. Many moths may not be deliberately flying towards the lights but because artificial lights interfere…

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Rattlesnake blood could reinvent the fight against deadly venoms

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Rattlesnake blood could reinvent the fight against deadly venoms

Herpetologists first discovered in 1933 that rattlesnakes are immune to their own venom. Native to the Americas, rattlesnakes are pit vipers, a family of vipers with a heat-sensing pit organ between each nostril and eye. Venom resistance in snakes comes in two forms: either the targets in their bodies have evolved such that the venom…

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AI and bioweapons: the problem with finding out when a model has been dangerous

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AI and bioweapons: the problem with finding out when a model has been dangerous

In a report published on September 10, Anthropic — the U.S.-based company that builds and provides the Claude AI model — said it blocked users from using the model for a range of potentially harmful activities across cybersecurity, surveillance, and biotechnology between December 2025 and August 2026. While Anthropic has in general been more open…

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Science Snapshots: September 20, 2026

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Science Snapshots: September 20, 2026

A U.S. Geological Survey poster showing the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North Korea in 2013. | Photo Credit: USGS North Korea’s nuclear tests reawakened sleeping faults While underground nuclear explosions usually set off brief aftershocks fading in weeks, North Korea’s tests at Mt. Mantap did the opposite, causing earthquake activity intensifying over years after…

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