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Alien contact could be a disaster

A public ET message could initiate cascading events, including military actions to corporate resource mining

Salon · Jul 22, 2023

First contact with aliens could easily end in genocide, scholars warn

SETI has been searching for evidence of alien life – but could doing so end in disaster?

LiveScience · Jul 21, 2023

First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don't learn from history

We’re only halfway through 2023, and it feels already like the year of alien contact.

The Conversation · Jul 19, 2023

First crocodile virgin birth recorded

The first virgin birth by a crocodile has been reported by a reptile park in Costa Rica. An 18-year-old crocodile laid an egg containing a fully formed foetus, despite having been housed alone for 16 years and never mating. The Royal Society, in its journal Biology Letters, said this is…

The Week · Jun 7, 2023

Alagappa College of Technology alumnus makes it to Royal Society of London

An alumnus of the Alagappa College of Technology of Anna University M. Madan Babu has been elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of London (2023)

The Hindu · May 11, 2023

Explainer-What are depleted uranium weapons - and what are the risks?

Britain said it would supply armour piercing munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine to help destroy Russian tanks, a step President Vladimir Putin said would force a response from Moscow as the weapons had "a nuclear component".

Reuters · Mar 23, 2023