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Topic: Snakes

Scientists develop most accurate 3D map of mammal brain yet. It’s like ‘having access to a Google map’

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

King Cobra can kill an elephant with a single bite. Here’s how we got close to it for our film

Our first cameraman ran away after doing a Google search on the King Cobra. The realisation that this is the world’s longest venomous snake, with no available antidote in India, never left us.

A Brazilian biologist stepped on pit vipers 40,000 times. What ‘daring feet’ revealed about snakebites

Team led by João Miguel Alves-Nunes studied snake defense mechanisms by gently stepping on jararacas. Findings, published in Scientific Reports, to help optimise antivenom distribution.

Looking for pit vipers on your honeymoon in Nilgiri Hills? That’s what Rom & Zai Whitaker did

In ‘Scaling Up’, Zai Whitaker expands on the classic Snakeman, which was about her and her ex-husband Romulus Whitaker’s adventures in conservation.

Romulus Whitaker’s colour blindness was an advantage. It helped him spot snakes easily

In ‘Snakes, Drugs And Rock ’N’ Roll’, Romulus Whitaker and his wife Janaki Lenin write about Whitaker’s childhood and his adventures before setting up the famed Chennai Snake Park.

A suffering tribe, an explosive case: Inside Delhi Sapera village at heart of ‘snake venom’ row

Five men from Delhi's Molarband village arrested for alleged involvement in Noida rave saga in which YouTube Elvish Yadav is also a suspect. They're out on bail, but residents say damage done.

He is Bihar’s ‘Snake Man’ and he won’t stop till he rescues the very last one

Hariom says Indian snakes are misunderstood. To reverse this, he runs a rescue centre in Buxar, uses Instagram Reels, and has developed a new repellent.

Brrr! German scientists produce coldest temperature ever recorded in lab

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

Rare fossil turtle egg discovered, belongs to species that died when asteroid wiped out dinos

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

185-year-old paintings reveal new snake species in Tamil Nadu

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

On Camera

Severe Hyderabad internet outages make it an IT hub without the IT part

Many offices in Telangana have asked their employees to work from home because of heavy rainfall, but it has become impossible due to the internet outages.

‘Not just Russian oil, India tapped us along on trade deal,’ says US treasury secy Scott Bessent

New Delhi: The US is not worried about the rupee “becoming a reserve currency” given that it is at an all-time low versus the...

CDS on differences on theaterisation—views welcome, final call to be in nation’s best interests

The Navy has always been on board with the theaterisation plan, but the Air Force feels splitting up air assets into several theatre commands is futile & will tie up critical systems.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.