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Armed with DNA, scientists find 1857 war link to skeletons discovered in Punjab well in 2014

Rishika Sadam -
Study conducted by Panjab University anthropologist in collaboration with CCMB & other institutes. It was published in the journal 'Frontiers in Genetics' Thursday.

Did space sow seeds of life on Earth? Japan scientists find building blocks of DNA in meteorites

Sandhya Ramesh -
Five primary nucleobases that make up all DNA & RNA found in 3 meteorites. Study published in Nature Communications Tuesday.

A massive filament of hydrogen 55,000 light years away, and how supergiant stars die

Mohana Basu -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Sampling DNA from air could help track animals, transform wildlife monitoring

Sandhya Ramesh -
Two groups of researchers sampled DNA from the air in two European zoos and discovered a wealth of genetic material, including from animals outside the zoo and meat fed to animals.

Scientists discover 1,600-yr-old mummy of a sheep, & seismometres can trace wandering elephants

Mohana Basu -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Aryans or Harappans—Who drove the creation of caste system? DNA holds a clue

Namit Arora -
In ‘Indians’, Namit Arora writes that scientists trace the earliest instances of endogamy in the subcontinent to the first millennium BCE.

E-DNA was tracking endangered animals. Then it was recruited to fight Covid pandemic

Jessica Alice Farrell -
Environmental DNA takes advantage of the fact that every animal sheds DNA into its environment as it moves through the world.

X-rays detected from Uranus for the first time 

Mohana Basu -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

World’s oldest DNA sequenced, belongs to million-year-old Siberian mammoth excavated in 1970s

Sandhya Ramesh -
The findings reveal clues into how other mammoths evolved and provide evolutionary evidence of interbreeding species creating new ones.

Alcohol abuse can change male DNA for three months after stopping, says NIMHANS study

Sandhya Ramesh -
The study has implications for treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder, mostly treated with abstinence which often results in relapse.
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Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

K. Kalyani -
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

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Economy

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

+TFP TCA Sharad Raghavan -
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

Defence

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

ThePrint Team -
The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

National Interest

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

Shekhar Gupta -
While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.

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