Vishay Singh

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Author Vishay Singh

A monocled cobra, Naja kaouthia. Photo Credit: Tontan Travel Vishal Santra got more than he bargained for when he peered into a chicken coop in the Hooghly District of West Bengal, India in 2004. He was helping the local community with dangerous snake removals when he was called upon to wrangle an unwelcome guest in a fowl pen: a monocled cobra, Naja kaouthia. Monocled cobras, which can reach lengths of about 5 feet, are highly venomous animals, so Santra knew to avoid ...read more

Author Vishay Singh

(Credit: 279photo Studio/Shutterstock) Patties of beef grown in a lab could be hitting supermarket shelves as early as 2018. That’s the bold statement from Hampton Creek, a San Francisco-based food company that produces mainly vegan condiments and cookie doughs. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the company says they are working on growing cultured animal cells in the lab to turn into cruelty-free meat products, and the product could be ready as early as next year. If the rocky history ...read more

Author Vishay Singh

Birds and scorpions — and an apparently headless human (lower right) — adorn a pillar from one of the buildings excavated at the Neolithic site of Göbekli Tepe, where newly-discovered carved skulls point to unique ritual treatment of the dead. (Credit German Archaeological Institute (DAI)) Fragments of uniquely carved skulls — at least one of which may have also been decorated — have turned up at one of Turkey’s most important Neolithic sites. Investigation in ...read more

Author Vishay Singh

Researchers in the Cornish lab at Columbia University examine baker’s yeast, modified to detect pathogens, growing in a petri dish. (Credit: Courtesy of Columbia University Office of Communications and Public Affairs) Yeast, the ubiquitous little fungus that can seemingly do it all, is doing more. If you aren’t familiar with yeast’s accolades, here’s a refresher: It gives beer its buzz, it can produce textiles, safer opioids, tasty food and is the workhorse model organi ...read more