When Don Pike takes his daily walk, he laces up his brown hiking boots, grabs his walking stick and bucket hat and heads outside. Ten feet later, he carefully slips past barbed wire and enters the Tonto National Forest. Unlike other parts of the Tonto, where the ground between native plants and trees is covered…
PANCHKULA: An Indian Army havildar has allegedly deserted his unit in Chandimandir in Haryana’s Panchkula, leaving behind a hand-written note mentioning that he has got a visa and is going abroad to pursue his dream job.Non-commissioned officer unit supervisor Vinay Kumar Tiwari filed a police complaint, stating that havildar Yaali Ansari was last seen during…
You are in a desert and dying of thirst. All of a sudden, storm clouds appear overhead, and the sky starts to spit tiny drops of liquid. How would you quickly make the most of the potentially lifesaving precipitation? One more thing, you don’t have any hands. Prairie rattlesnakes have evolved an easy solution to…
Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans live only in the jungles of Indonesia. But humans live pretty much everywhere. Our species has spread across frozen tundras, settled on mountaintops and called other extreme environments home. Scientists have historically seen this adaptability as one of the hallmarks of modern humans and a sign…