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In one way or another, all living people on the earth can trace their ancestry to Africa and therefore carry some portion of African ancestral DNA — some to a significant degree, others less so. If we all originated from the same African ancestors, why do we look so different? Imagine two grains of paddy,

For her PhD research, bat biologist Kadambari Deshpande made overnight recordings of bat echolocation calls in the Western Ghats. A “good night” would generate about 30 GB of data from 11 hours of recording with a bat detector. To process the data, Deshpande would go through several one-minute recordings, scanning every millisecond for bat calls,

Coming up with a good prompt for a generative AI tool has quickly become a specialised skill since the runaway success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022. It has led to the foundation of an entirely new scientific discipline known as prompt engineering. As the technology becomes more advanced and widely adopted, some experts believe that

At least 69 killed in thunderstorms, avalanches in India, Nepal, China by AFP Staff Writers Patna, India (AFP) April 12, 2025 At least 69 people were killed this week in unusually intense thunderstorms across eastern India’s Bihar state and in neighbouring Nepal, officials said Saturday. While flash floods and lightning kill