Marion Douglas (The Game of Giants) will join Margaret Macpherson (Tilting Towards Joy, Signature Editions) as they both read from their latest books. WHEN: Wednesday, […]

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Visakhapatnam is set to host a two-day wildlife photography exhibition on July 29 and 30

Seventeen artists have displayed 40 art works at the group show at Dys Art Gallery in Visakhapatnam

Planning a trip to Europe? Skip the hotels and find a fairytale castle to stay in, writes SMITA TRIPATHI

Debate over seaplane impact on Kerala wildlife as trial run approaches, with concerns over disturbance to animals.

The song Periyone... has been nominated in ‘Song-Feature Film’ category and A.R. Rahman in ‘Score-Independent Film (Foreign Language)’ category

Pranitha Subhash and her businessman husband Nitin Raju welcomed their second child, a baby boy, a few days ago.

Film folk celebrated their gurus on Teacher's Day by sharing lovely pictures and posts.

Salman Khan returned to his hosting duties on Bigg Boss 18 just days after his close friend and NCP leader Baba Siddique was killed.

Shalini Passi is the latest addition along with Riddhima Kapoor Sahni and Kalyani Saha, and she has got everyone talking on social media, thanks to her quirky personality.

From the looks of it, she's a chota packet bada dhamaka!

The Zoological Survey of India will use eDNA for mapping, monitoring wildlife; help in biodiversity assessments & eradication of aquatic invasive species

A Bengaluru-based start-up develops solutions for farmers to deter big cats, animals and monkeys from raiding their fields  

The Denver Nuggets, who took Mutombo in the first round of the 1991 draft, said in a statement they were "heartbroken" by his passing.

Some animals like the Nilgai, wild boar and rhesus monkey have found themselves now termed as vermin!

Our waterways are slow, sluggish and filthy. Have you wondered why? Rivers are the lifelines of our cities or towns, but we are causing them to die!

If we know that genetics and lifestyle affect how long you live, which one is more important? And how do they interact?

The webinar was held as part of The Hindu’s Wellness Series

Speaking at a public awareness meeting organised at GRH on the occasion of World Stroke Day on Tuesday, Dr. Murugan, attributed these negative factors to a sedentary lifestyle because of the youth’s job nature and location

The key to having healthy bones for a lifetime is to take some simple preventive measures – and the earlier, the better

'We need to understand and respect wildlife behaviour.'

'If someone were to ask you if you want to die tomorrow, no matter what problems you are grappling with, you would be hesitant, right?'

'One day, just like that, without even saying goodbye, he was gone.'

'When one is low, all you can do is buckle up and get up and prepare for the next challenge.'

'I received many threatening calls and letters.''A fatwa was issued against me.'

'You have to keep working hard.''The universe sees that in you and the higher power puts those opportunities in your way.'

'The kind of things they were writing, 'Oh, what is this, she's overacting at her wedding.' 'Why is she not covering her head?''The kind of liberty people take to comment on what I should be doing in my personal life is not something I'm okay with.'

'If you're a person who's not comfortable going out to parties for networking, don't do it.''It's not like you're getting a film at a party.'

'The maximum struggle that I have gone through in this industry was to try to get a film made which had a female action star.''And that film never got made, despite reaching out to some of the biggest actresses.'

When working through the early stages of a product design, it's common that labels for objects and actions emerge organically. No one is overly concerned about making these labels consistent (yet). But if this proliferation of terms doesn't get reined in early, both product design and strategy get harder.

Do we call it a library, a folder, a collection, a workspace, a section, a category, a topic? How about a document, page, file, entry, article, worksheet? And.. what's the difference? While these kinds of decisions might not be front and center when working out designs for a product or feature, they can impact a lot.

For starters, having clear definitions for concepts helps keep teams on the same page. When engineering works on implementing a new object type, they're aligned with what design is thinking, which is what the sales team is pitching potential customers on. Bringing a product to life is hard enough, why complicate things by using different terms for similar things or vice versa?

Inconsistent terms are obviously also a comprehension issue for the people using our products. "Here's it's called a Document, there it's called an Article. Are those the same?" Additionally, undefined terms often lead to miscellaneous bins in our user interfaces. "What's inside Explore?" When the definition of objects and actions isn't clear, what choice do we have but to drop them into vague sounding containers like Discover?

The more a product gets developed (especially by bigger teams) the more things can diverge because people's mental model of what terms mean can vary a lot. So it's really useful to proactively put together a list of the objects and actions that make up an application and draft some simple one-liner definitions for each. These lists almost always kick off useful high-level discussions within teams on what we're building and for who. Being forced to define things requires you to think them through: what is this feature doing and why?

And of course, consistent labels also ease comprehension for users. Once people learn what something means, they'll be able to apply that knowledge elsewhere -instead of having to contend with mystery meat navigation.

As the Telugu film ‘Balagam’ wins hearts and international awards, director Venu Yeldandi talks about how he wanted the film to reflect native culture and relationships in Sircilla, Telangana

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Is life itself quantum mechanical? Questions of quantum mechanics are now being applied in the field of biology, with scientists asking whether life itself relies on quantum mechanics – one of the biggest mysteries that remains in science. Jim Al-Khalili is a professor of physics at the University of Surrey, and president of the British Science Association and his work aims to break down extremely complex ideas for a wider audience.

Deepfakes may seem like an internet scourge, but so-called "hyperreal" masks have fooled people in real-life and have even been used in crimes. To learn more about these masks and our ability to spot them, WIRED's Matt Simon talked with researcher Rob Jenkins.

Since 2016, inventor and entrepreneur Richard Browning has dedicated himself to one ambitious mission: creating the perfect jet suit. The 'real-life Iron Man' founded Gravity Industries in 2017 to develop, test and produce his suit. In his first record attempt he hit a top speed of 32.02 miles per hour and in November 2019 he set out to smash that record with a more advanced version of his unique suit. Before his attempt, we spoke to Richard about his journey to creating his suit and the changes he's made to help him in his record attempt. He also spoke of his plans for the future, which include selling suits to enthusiasts (it takes just a day to learn how to use them) and even the possibility of a racing series. Formula 1 with jet packs? Sign us up #richardbrowning #gravity #jetsuit

What began as the Absurd Creature of the Week column, and became the Absurd Creatures web video series, is now Absurd Planet, only on Netflix.

Jurassic Park may have first put the idea of bringing dinosaurs back from the dead into people's heads, but the question of whether we can bring back more recently extinct species is still very much alive and kicking for scientists. In the latest episode of WIRED's What If series, we look at the three techniques scientists are using today to potentially bring extinct animals back to life - breeding, cloning, and the use of CRISPR-cas9. This video was produced as part of Digital Society, a publishing partnership between WIRED and Vontobel where all content is editorially independent. Visit Vontobel Impact for more stories on how technology is shaping the future of society: https://www.vontobel.com/en-int/impact/ #WIRED #Deextinction #ExtinctAnimals With thanks: Melanie Challenger, Author and Bioethicist, How to Be Animal: A new history of what it means to be human Rich Grenyer, Associate Professor in Biodiversity and Biogeography, Official Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College, Oxford Helen Pilcher, Science writer and author of 'Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction' Dr Britt Wray, Author and Fellow in Human and Planetary Health at Stanford University and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine The Big Sky: https://www.thebigsky.co.uk/

Clara Sousa-Silva, molecular astrophysicist and research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is at the centre of the current search for life on Venus. She investigates how molecules interact with light so that they can be detected on faraway worlds. She joined us at WIRED Live 2020 to share her findings on what life beyond earth can look like. Find out more about Clara Sousa-Silva’s work in our recent article on Venus and phosphine: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/venus-signs-of-life-phosphine