Glasswing butterflies (Greta Oto) are among the hundreds of butterfly species with transparent wings. They are found in Central and South America.
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Brood X cicadas emerge after 17 years
Cicadas are large insects in the Cicadoidea family with big eyes, transparent, veined wings, and short antennae. C
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A new atlas for desertification and land degradation
ISRO’s Space Applications Centre (SAC) in Ahmedabad, in collaboration with various national institutes, monitored desertification across the country using data from Indian Remote Sensing Satellites (IRS).
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Plastic bottles to fragrant vanilla flavour
In a recent study, researchers used plastic bottles to make vanillin. Vanillin is a chemical that can be extracted naturally from vanilla beans or made artificially in labs.
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Cantil: A Discovery of an Unknown Organ in a Weed Plant
One of the best studied plants in science is a small roadside weed named thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana). It has been studied for decades.
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Assam gets two new national parks added to its list of five
Raimona forest reserve, Kokrajkar district, and Dehing Patkai wildlife sanctuary, Tinsukia district, have been added to the list of national parks in Assam.
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Two new species of woolly flying squirrels discovered
Two new species of woolly flying squirrel have been found by an international team of scientists from Australia and China.
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Gray whale makes the longest migration known for any mammal
A gray whale was spotted in Namibia, Africa, in 2013. This was the first recorded event of a gray whale sighting in the southern hemisphere and it piqued the interest of scientists all over the world.
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Bees as bioindicators for microplastic pollution.
Microplastics (MPs) are plastic particles ranging in size from 1 micron(μm) to 5 millimeter(mm) in size.
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New animal model to aid in the development of Covid-19 cure
Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) in Bhubaneshwar, has developed a Syrian hamster-based animal models to aid in the testing of new medicines and vaccine candidates against the novel coronavirus.
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