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Topic: fungi

Scientists find earliest Milky Way-like galaxy ever. It’s disc shaped & took barely 700 mn yrs to evolve

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

A deadly fungi outbreak is round the corner. India is the perfect breeding ground

+TFP Rudraneil Sengupta -
Fungal diseases, unlike those caused by viruses or bacteria, have flown under the radar in medical science. Mucormycosis left doctors, patients with battle scars.

Ants hold solutions to human problems – wise farming practices to efficient navigation

Scott Solomon -
Much like human farmers, each species of fungus-growing ant is very particular about the type of crops they cultivate.

NASA decodes why some planets have clouds of sand

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

DU study finds superbug on surfaces of stored apples. But here’s why you needn’t worry

Mohana Basu -
According to study, published in 'mBio', C. auris may contaminate fruit surfaces because of practices aimed at extending shelf life. The fungus can be deadly for patients in ICU.

Nature wants you dead every time you breathe a cocktail of pathogens. Yet you don’t fall sick

John S. Tregoning -
In 'Infectious', Dr. John S. Tregoning mentions how the human body is cornered on all sides by nature-borne attackers.

Two new fungus species in Netherlands and US named after Covid-19 pandemic

Sandhya Ramesh -
Mycologists found one of the new fungi in the Netherlands while the other was found in the US.

This worm army is marching across India and destroying everything in its path

Sandhya Ramesh -
The Fall Armyworm, from the tropical and sub-tropical parts of the Americas, was first detected in Karnataka last year. It's already reached Mizoram.

Even fungi have better sex lives than you

Andi Wilson -
Sex: birds do it, bees do it - and fungi do it too. Here’s how, and why it matters.

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Opinion

BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

Bloomberg Opinion -
The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

Nuapada byelection may change Odisha’s political landscape. It should not be ignored

BJP’s uniformity push is harmful. Ladakh shows federalism is the core of our democracy

Economy

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

Udit Bubna -
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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