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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
For decades, scientists have tried to unlock the secrets of ancient DNA. But life’s genetic blueprint is incredibly fragile, and researchers have struggled to find DNA in fossils that could survive millions of years. Then, one maverick scientist had the controversial idea to look for DNA not in fossils or frozen ancient tissue – but in dirt. Join the hunt as scientists decipher the oldest DNA ever found, and reveal for the first time the genes...
3) Salam
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary life of Abdus Salam, 1979 Nobel prize winning Pakistani physicist, today, even as he casts an outsized shadow on the world of physics, Salam’s legacy remains deliberately blotted out in Pakistan. The epitaph on his tomb initially read “First Muslim Nobel Laureate”, but ‘Muslim’ was scratched out on official orders. SALAM: THE FIRST ****** NOBEL LAUREATE depicts this extraordinary yet ultimately tragic life, intertwining...
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From Peru, where the mineral is extracted, all the way to France, where the metal is refined, lead pollutes the earth, the rivers, food supplies, and local people. Despite being banned in numerous products including fuel, paints and the manufacture of pipes, lead is still often used in buildings, weapon development, jewellery and even in batteries. At Évin-Malmaison, France, lead from refineries has contaminated the earth underneath various schools,...
5) Periodical
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In our era of social media-empowered feminism, after centuries of societal-enforced stigma, menstruation has finally begun to bleed out into the mainstream. We’re finally using red liquid instead of blue in period product ads, seeing beauty influencers use their period blood for facials on social media, and even the most daring period scenes are being depicted on tv — but we still know alarmingly little when it comes to menstruation. And we still...
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