Representative Image of a pristine highland lake transitioning from murky water to clear, with submerged plants thriving (AI Generated Image) Caohai Lake, a highland lake in southwest China, began losing its underwater vegetation after 2016. By 2019, submerged plants covered less than 10 per cent of the lake, down from around 70 per cent just…
Representative Image of a caterpillar guarding wasp larvae and aggressively swinging its head at approaching predators (AI-generated image) A species of parasitic wasp has evolved one of the strangest survival strategies in the insect world, turning its caterpillar host into a living bodyguard for its own young. The wasp, from the genus Glyptapanteles, lays as…
Toxic Day 10 box office collection LIVE (Image credits IMDb) ‘Toxic: A Fairytale For Grown-Ups’ entered its second weekend with its India box-office run approaching the Rs. 240 crore net mark. After opening to a mammoth Rs. 101.10 crore on Day 1, Yash‘s gangster drama saw its collections decline sharply through the week, although it…
Srinagar: Ground staff attend to an IndiGo aircraft after flight 6E 225 (VT-NOG), operating from Navi Mumbai to Srinagar, hit a pole while being parked at Srinagar airport (PTI Photo). MUMBAI: An IndiGo aircraft operating from Navi Mumbai to Srinagar came into contact with a parking stand pole while parking at Srinagar International Airport on…
Simpson used salvaged road signs, bicycle parts and scrap metal to create towering structures that moved with the wind. Vollis Simpson spent much of his life repairing farm machinery in Wilson County, North Carolina. After retiring, he began building huge wind-powered sculptures on his farm using discarded materials. What started as a hobby soon grew…
Pine martens are making a remarkable return to south-west England after disappearing from Exmoor for more than a century, with conservationists capturing the first confirmed evidence that the reintroduced animals are breeding in the wild. A remote trail camera recorded a female pine marten with four kits on Exmoor, signalling that an ambitious effort to…
ECI rejects Patiala MP Dharamvira Gandhi’s claim NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday rejected Congress leader and Patiala MP Dharamvira Gandhi’s claim that his name and those of his family members were missing from Punjab’s draft electoral roll published on August 13.According to an ECI statement, the Lok Sabha member and…
Kindergarten student leaves school without anyone noticing; a good Samaritan brings the child back after her ‘mom instincts’ kick in, but the school has a different storyA five-year-old kindergarten student in Texas left the school in the middle of the day without anyone noticing, before being found by a good Samaritan who safely returned the…
HarperCollins to publish former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s memoir after Penguin backs out NEW DELHI: So, who does Sonia Gandhi’s controversial memoir ‘Belonging’ belong to? HarperCollins India has stepped in to publish the Congress leader’s memoir, ending weeks of uncertainty over who would carry the domestic edition after Penguin Random House India (PRHI) exited the…
To study proprioception alone, the researchers had to remove other cues that normally affect a tree’s growth. A tree might look like it’s stuck in place, quietly suffering whatever weather comes. But below that stillness is a remarkable system for sensing, responding and correcting its own posture. But new research suggests that trees can sense…