Scientific India - July - August 2021

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THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION
Extinction is the dying out of a species. Extinction plays an important role in the evolution of life because it opens up opportunities for new species to emerge. When a species disappears, biologists say that the species has become extinct. A new study has shown that since 1750, more than double the numbers of plants have disappeared from the wild than birds, mammals and amphibians combined.

The Verge of Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point.

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Eating More Plant Foods May Lower Heart Disease Risk In Young Adults

Eating more Enutritious, plant-based foods is heart-healthy at any age, according to two research studies published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access journal of the American Heart Association.

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Consuming a diet with more fish fats, less vegetable oils can reduce migraine headaches

A diet higher in Afatty fish helped frequent migraine sufferers reduce their monthly number of headaches and intensity of pain compared to participants on a diet higher in vegetable-based fats and oils, according to a new study.

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A fermented-food diet increases microbiome diversity and lowers inflammation

A diet rich in Afermented foods enhances the diversity of gut microbes and decreases molecular signs of inflammation, according to researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine.

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Long Covid Uncommon In Children

Fewer than one in F20 children with symptomatic COVID-19 experienced symptoms lasting longer than 4 weeks, and almost all children have fully recovered by 8 weeks, a new study has found.

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Fish with human like teeth

Anglers at Jennette's Pier in North Carolina pulled up something unexpected — and uncanny — from the Atlantic: a fish with human teeth.

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More than 98 percent of emperor penguin colonies are expected to become quasi-extinct by 2100

Nearly all of the world's emperor penguin colonies may be pushed to the brink of extinction by 2100, a study has found, as the United States moves to list them as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

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Heat Wave Killed more than 1 Billion Marine creatures in Western United States and Canada

Heat Wave Killed more than 1 Billion Marine creatures in Western United States and Canada

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Dragon man fossil may replace Neanderthals as our closest relative

A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University. The largest of known Homo skulls, scientists now say this skull represents a newly discovered human species named Homo longi or Dragon Man. Their findings, appearing in three papers published in the journal The Innovation, suggest that the Homo longi lineage may be our closest relatives and has the potential to reshape our understanding of human evolution.

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Snake-eating spiders

Snakes are occasionally overpowered and eaten by a limited number of spider taxa. Not all snake-eating spiders trap the serpents with webs. Tarantulas actively hunt their prey, then use powerful jaws to deliver a potent venom (SN: 2/28/19).

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