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Hypnotized by the ecosystem of Area X
Annihilation takes the reader on a journey into the unknown horrors of nature. Margad Sukhbaatar/THE VARSITY A review of Jeff VanderMeer’s 2014 novel Annihilation The word “annihilation” rang fresh as pricked blood to me as I picked the book off my bookshelf. In approximately a quarter of a breath, Jeff VanderMeer had conjured in my…
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A Viral Post on Social Media Will Clear the Medical Debt of Strangers
“To celebrate my life, I’ve arranged to buy up others’ medical debt and then destroy the debt,” reads a posthumous tweet posted Tuesday after the death of 38-year-old Casey McIntyre. The Washington Post explains… McIntyre, who served as publisher at Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House, was diagnosed in 2019 and proceeded through treatment…
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Fairy-wrens babysit if they’ve got a good chance of mating with the parents
Why do animals help each other? Altruism in nature is a puzzle with many solutions, and fairy-wrens have found a few. A team of researchers based at Monash University has found more detail on why purple-crowned fairy-wrens will help raise offspring that don’t belong to them. It seems that being related to the offspring, or…
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The chimaeras of nature and their promise to grow human organs
At present, more than 3 lakh people are waiting for an organ transplant in India alone; the global number is far higher, with no respite in sight. There is an alarming disparity in the number of organ donors and the number of recipients – and animals have played an important part in filling this gap.…
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NUS researcher wants to find ways to channel more finance into conserving nature
SINGAPORE – Having spent a decade in the environment sector, Ms Shakura Bashir has seen a whole spectrum of sustainability efforts take shape here, from the Republic’s efforts to bolster food security, to its continued investing in clean water technologies. But one particular area has since captured the attention of the PhD student – wielding…
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LankaWeb – Greenwashing Bond Scams and Financializing Mother Nature: Climate Science Fiction versus Local Realities -Part I
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Sri Lankan President unveils ambitious national green vision paving the way for a sustainable future Fri, Nov 3, 2023, 07:43 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. We live in a state of permanent emergency. Poly crisis’ is a fashionable term these days in United Nations (UN), and Bretton Woods circles that…
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Record-breaking summer set to hit southern hemisphere
A similar combination of weather patterns in 2019-2020 resulted in Australia’s devastating ‘black summer’ bushfires.Credit: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg via Getty The southern hemisphere is facing a summer of extremes, say scientists, as climate change amplifies the effects of natural climate variability. This comes in the wake of a summer in the northern hemisphere that saw extreme…
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Proteomic association with age-dependent sex differences in Wisconsin Card Sorting Test performance in healthy Thai subjects
Abstract Sex differences in cognitive function exist, but they are not stable and undergo dynamic change during the lifespan. However, our understanding of how sex-related neural information transmission evolves with age is still in its infancy. This study utilized the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) and the label-free proteomics method with bioinformatic analysis to investigate…
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Seroprevalence and risk factors for Neospora spp. infection in equine in Egypt
Abstract Neospora infections in equine are associated with reproductive disorders and neurological diseases. Nevertheless, Egypt has no epidemiological information on this parasite in equine. This study determined the prevalence of Neospora spp. infection in 325 equines from three Egyptian governorates located at Northern Egypt using cELISA. The prevalence of antibodies against Neospora spp. was 19% (95%…
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Do whales have teeth?
November 19, 2023 Cosmos Cosmos is a quarterly science magazine. We aim to inspire curiosity in ‘The Science of Everything’ and make the world of science accessible to everyone. By Cosmos At the beginning of 2023, scientists made a surprise finding. The pygmy right whale (Caperea marginata), which is the smallest of the baleen whales,…
