Scientists discovered four snakes curled together in a burrow for 38 million years as the volcanic ash preserved their remarkable fossils |

Overview of Hibernophis breithaupti (UW11120 on two blocks), showing holotype (UW-11120-A) and paratype (UW-11120-B) specimens as exposed on the surface. Image Credit: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society A snake fossil discovery in Wyoming has given palaeontologists an unusually close look at the lives of these ancient reptiles. Four complete skeletons belonging to a newly…

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Quote of the day by Sylvester Stallone: ‘If you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you’ve got to be willing to take the hits,’ and why self-belief means little without the resilience to endure setbacks

Quote of the day by Sylvester Stallone Believing in yourself is the first step towards success. Sylvester Stallone‘s words add an important condition to that idea. Confidence, he suggests, means very little unless it is accompanied by the willingness to absorb disappointment, criticism and failure without abandoning the goal itself. The quotation shifts the conversation…

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Mit Alumni: Meet Adit Abraham and Raunak Chowdhuri: The Indian-origin MIT alumni who named their startup after Harry Potter’s “Reductor Curse”

Adit Abraham and Raunak Chowdhuri (Photo via LinkedIn) Harry Potter movies and novels have been an integral part of childhood, sending children into a fantasy world. But it seems that some MIT alumni have taken this childhood fantasy to another level.Adit Abraham and Raunak Chowdhuri, two MIT graduates of Indian origin, named their AI company…

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In 2017, 75-year-old Jeanne Socrates suffered major injuries after falling from a ladder while preparing to sail around the world; two years later she finished the voyage alone at 77 and set a world record

Jeanne Socrates (Image Credit: Wikipedia) In 2017, British sailor Jeanne Socrates was 75 when a fall from a ladder while working on her yacht left her with serious injuries and forced her to postpone another attempt to sail around the world. Instead of giving up, she returned to the challenge a year later. On October…

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