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Coronavirus Variant Found in India is Renamed Delta

If you haven't yet mastered the name of the latest variant of the coronavirus to turn nations upside down - B.1.617.2, as evolutionary biologists call it - then don't worry: the World Health Organization has proposed a solution.The group…

Israel Reveals Newly Found Fragments of Useless Sea Scrolls

A Bedouin shepherd came across the first of the ancient scrolls in 1947. He found them in jars in a cave in Qumran near the northern tip of the Dead Sea. Some were sold to a monastery, others to an antique dealer in Bethlehem. Once their…

Largest Glowing Shark Species Found Close to New Zealand

As they roam the oceans, sharks don't just hunt. Some of them are glowing. And now researchers have identified the largest, glow-in-the-dark species with a spine - on land or at sea - ever found.A study published last week in Frontiers in…

New Bat Species With Orangutan Hue Found in West Africa

In 2018, scientists embarked on an expedition to study the habitat of an endangered bat species in Guinea, West Africa. One night something unusual emerged in a trap: a new species of bat with a fiery orange body juxtaposed with striking…