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Reading someone’s facial expressions or body posture is important for understanding their personality, emotions, motivations, or intent. But what about dogs? Can they draw information from faces and bodies like we do? A new study has provided the answer.Previous research has determined that an area of our brains – the temporal lobe – is dedicated to perceiving others and that adjacent areas specialize in interpreting faces and bodies. The same is true of primates. However, research on how other animals differentiate…

Multiple tech and internet industry bodies such as Nasscom, IndiaTech and IAMAI have urged the Delhi government to relax electric vehicle (EV) transition timelines prescribed by the state in its draft aggregator policy. ET had reported last week about IAMAI’s submission that an aggressive EV transition could impact the livelihoods of gig workers across Delhi who had invested in conventionally powered two-wheelers. Now, Nasscom, which represents companies like Flipkart, Amazon and Uber, and tech industry lobby group…

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) on Friday issued a set of guidelines to be followed by government organisations and their departments to ensure cybersecurity and safety. “The guidelines shall assist security teams to implement baseline and essential controls and procedures to protect their cyberinfrastructure from prominent threats. These guidelines shall also act as a baseline document for administration and audit teams (internal, external/ third-party auditors) to evaluate an organisation’s…

The state attorney general’s office and the Cemetery Board are investigating charges that a Hesperia ceramics company has done nothing but cremate corpses, including 950 pounds of unidentified body parts from the Aug. 31 Cerritos air disaster, since it opened in October.The firm, Oscar Ceramics, belongs to David Sconce, who also owns Pasadena Crematorium in Altadena, which closed two months ago after its roof was destroyed by fire.Oscar Ceramics was closed Tuesday by Hesperia Fire District officials after neighbors in…

New Delhi: Despite a projected decline in the growth of global…

Few events are as compelling as a pandemic, even a relatively mild one. Though nowhere near as severe as the 14th-century Black Death or the 1918 Spanish flu, Covid has drawn responses from every sector of society, spreading panic and undermining trust in governments.Little wonder then that throughout history politicians have sought to blame lethal new outbreaks of infectious disease on foreign “others”, hence the Victorian characterisation of cholera as the “yellow peril” and Donald Trump’s references to the coronavirus…

‘In the end,” writes Simon Schama at the beginning of his extraordinary book on pandemics old and new, “all history is natural history.” Foreign Bodies is ostensibly an account of the bacteriologists and epidemiologists who studied the natural history of infectious diseases from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries, developing vaccines and saving millions from smallpox, cholera and the plague. But as its subtitle suggests, it is also a reflection on the political and scientific conflicts of the Covid pandemic, and…

The summer months are almost here, and it’s a time when many of us will be hitting the pool or the beach to relax and soak up some rays. Not to be left out, the heroes and villains of the DC Universe will be enjoying some fun in the sun this August. G’Nort’s Illustrated Swimsuit Edition will feature 48 pages of pin-ups and stories starring DC’s mainstay characters in their finest swimwear, all hosted by everyone’s favorite anthropomorphic dog Green Lantern. Here’s how DC describes G’Nort’s Illustrated Swimsuit Edition:…

After recently kicking off series production in Europe, Volta Trucks is making moves across the pond as it looks to launch its commercial EVs in the US later this year. Today, the startup has announced EAVX will help design custom truck bodies for the Zero trucks ahead of full production. Volta Trucks is a London-based commercial EV startup that is less than four years old yet sits on the cusp of deliveries of its flagship commercial truck, the Volta Zero. This past March, Volta relayed it…

A research team has turned the bodies of dead mice into vivid 3D maps of anatomy, with tissues, nerves, and vessels highlighted in color. The technique, which renders the corpses transparent and then exposes them to fluorescent antibodies that label distinct cell types, could help everything from drug development to understanding the spread of cancer, its creators and other scientists say. The developers, at the Helmholtz Munich research institute, call their…