A team of scientists at the Purdue University have managed to create the world’s whitest paint.
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99 million-years Old Spider Mom Protected Its Spiderlings
Recently three researchers from the Capital Normal University in China have found a mother spider protecting her offsprings from a fossil sample.
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Brachiopod Flexible Shell Mystery Solved
An international research team has revealed the secret of why the protective cover of the brachiopod, Discinisca tenuis becomes extremely soft and foldable in water and gets hard and stiff again in the air.
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World’s Most Accurate Clock Makers Win 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Two physicists from the University of Colorado, Chinese-American Jun Ye and Hidetoshi Katori of Japan won the prestigious 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
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Silkmoth wingtips act as an “Acoustic Decoy” against Bat
The researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that the wingtips of some large and strong winged silkmoths (saturniid moths) were rippled and folded.
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Scientists Discover World’s Northernmost Island
A group of researchers have found the world’s northernmost island off the north coast of Greenland.
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Asian Wasp nests glow fluorescent green under UV light
Scientists have recently for the first time have found that Asian paper wasp (genus Polistes) nest can glow in fluorescent green colour, when kept under UV (ultraviolet) rays.
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Discovery of Three huge Black Holes Joining Together
Three huge black holes (Black hole – is a location in space that possesses so much gravity that nothing can escape its pull) from three galaxies have merged together to form a triple active galactic nucleus
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Walking whale ancestor named after Egyptian god Anubis
Scientists in the Fayum Depression in western Egypt discovered the fossils of a whale ancestor which could walk on land and swim in water.
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First blue whale songs recorded in Indian waters
Marine mammal scientist Divya Panicker in the year 2019 in the Lakshadweep Islands was listening to recordings taped on underwater sound recorders when she came across low blue whale moans.
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