Chennai’s own guitar prodigy

Chennai’s own guitar prodigy

This nine-year-old YouTuber’s commitment to her music got Tool’spopular American guitarist Adam Jones to take notice This nine-year-old YouTuber’s commitment to music got popular American guitarist Adam Jones to take notice Imagine a five-year-old girl slapping her little toy guitar, prancing around the house, listening to heavy metal. This is Maya Neelakantan. Nine-years-old now, Maya […]

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Scientists in China create world’s first cloned wild Arctic wolf ‘Maya’

Scientists in China create world’s first cloned wild Arctic wolf ‘Maya’

A wild Arctic wolf was successfully cloned for the first time in the world by a Beijing-based gene firm. The cloning of the Arctic wolf, also known as the white wolf or polar wolf, which is native to the High Arctic tundra of Canada’s Queen Elizabeth Islands, is considered a milestone achievement in conserving rare […]

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Unearthing a Maya civilization that ‘punched above its weight’

Unearthing a Maya civilization that ‘punched above its weight’

On a bright, buggy summer morning, Charles Golden, an anthropologist at Brandeis University, slashed through the knee-high grass of a cattle ranch deep in the Valle de Santo Domingo, a sparsely populated region of thick brush and almost impenetrable jungle. Only the raucous half-roar, half-bark of howler monkeys pierced the ceaseless mating call of cicadas. […]

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