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A single aspen grove in Utah called Pando is one organism sharing a 106-acre root system and 47,000 genetically identical trunks, weighs roughly 6,000 tons, and has been quietly cloning itself for somewhere between 9,000 and 80,000 years while every visible trunk above it lives and dies on a 130-year cycle.

In the age of AI, India must raise ‘reimagineers’

Quote of the day by Immanuel Kant on critical thinking: ‘Have courage to use your own understanding’

The Human Genome Project was declared complete in 2003 — but about 8% of human DNA was still missing, including some of the regions most critical to chromosome stability and immunity, and it took another nineteen years to finally read it all

Citing ‘severe’ math deficits, University of California faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM applicants

‘Bhed Chaal’ vs reality: Unemployed IIT graduate at crossroads; asks Internet what is better — PhD or low-paying job?

Nobody talks about why the Himalayas are still getting taller, and it isn’t erosion slowing down or new rock forming, it’s that India is still ramming into Asia at roughly the speed your fingernails grow

In 1816, a French physician named René Laennec, embarrassed to press his ear against the chest of a young female patient, rolled up a sheet of paper into a tube and listened through it instead — and that improvised paper cylinder, which let him hear her heart more clearly than direct contact had, became the original prototype for the stethoscope and quietly reshaped two centuries of medicine

Gulf Medical University Launches the Region's Largest Network of Clinical Skills and Simulation Centres

For more than thirty years after his death in 1955, Albert Einstein’s brain was kept in a series of jars in the basement of a Kansas pathologist who had removed it during the autopsy without permission — and when researchers finally examined it in the 1980s and 1990s, one study found that a specific region called the inferior parietal lobule was about fifteen percent wider than the average brain

The largest known organism on Earth isn’t a whale or a tree — it’s a single fungus growing underground in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest, covering nearly four square miles, mostly invisible, estimated to be between two and eight thousand years old and slowly killing the forest above it from beneath

The Most Misspelled Word in Every U.S. State

Antarctica is the largest desert on the planet, because a desert is defined by how little water falls from the sky rather than by heat, and almost nothing falls on the frozen continent.

There is more freshwater locked inside the rocks of Earth’s mantle than in every river, lake, and surface reservoir on the planet combined, hidden in a mineral called ringwoodite hundreds of miles beneath your feet

UPSC rolls out face authentication at exam centres to curb impersonation: Here's how it works

The human eye has a small blind spot where the optic nerve connects to the retina, and the only reason you don’t constantly see a hole in your visual field is that your brain is filling it in with educated guesses — meaning every moment of your visual experience is partly fabrication, and your conscious mind is the last to be informed.

In September 2023 a mega-tsunami in Greenland sent tremors around the entire planet for nine days and scientists have only just confirmed how

The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs struck what is now Mexico with such force that it blasted molten ejecta high above the atmosphere before it rained back down across the planet, and many of the survivors were small, sheltered creatures — including early mammals on the line that would eventually lead to us.

I asked ChatGPT to keep my job future-proof: AI asks me to build a T-shaped profile

Panic as F-1 Visa slots vanish within minutes amid new vetting process; expert issues advise for students