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    From :- BBC World News     By:-  Victoria Gill  ( Science correspondent, BBC News)    Edited by :- Amal Udawatta                                                            Watch: Experts dispute claims dire wolf brought back from extinction There is a magnificent, snow-white wolf on the cover of Time Magazine today - accompanied by a headline announcing the return of the dire wolf. This now extinct species is possibly most famous for its fictional role in Game of Thrones, but it did exist - more than 10,000 years ago - when it roamed across the Americas. The company  Colossal Biosciences is behind today's headlines . It announced that it used "deft genetic engineering and ancient DNA" to breed three dire wolf puppies and to "de-extinct" the species. But while the young wolves - Romulus, Remu...

    From - Sky & Telescope  By- Bob King  Edited by - Amal Udawatta The nova is located between the Teapot's "Spout" and the bright open cluster M7 in Scorpius. I include a suggested star-hopping route, starting at the 2nd magnitude star Epsilon (ε) Sagittarii. Once you've arrived at the asterism (circled), use the chart below to pinpoint the nova's location. North is up. Stellarium with additions by Bob King A new nova for early risers plus three fun observing  projects for the week ahead. We have a new "star" in the night sky. In truth, it's been there for billions of years, but it only first revealed itself a little more than a week ago. Nova Sagittarii 2025 no. 3 was independently discovered on March 23–24 by the Russian  New Milky Way (NMW) Survey  and Japanese amateur Tadashi Kojima at a right ascension of 18 h  02′ and declination of –33° 11′. Both parties caught the star around magnitude 13; two days later it had brightened to 10....

    From - BBC World News    By -  Lucy Davies   Edited by - Amal Udawatta Art Institute of Chicago/ Arthur M Wood/ Collection of Alice and Rick Johnson Blanche Hoschedé-Monet has barely been acknowledged in art history. But not only did she help her stepfather Claude, she created her own fine works – often of the same scenes as him. Haystack at Giverny, Poplars at the Water's Edge, Morning on the Seine. These painting titles bring only one name to mind – the great Claude Monet, whose flickering evocations of light and atmosphere are the cornerstone of Impressionism.  But while Monet painted these very subjects, the paintings belong to the oeuvre of his stepdaughter, and subsequently daughter-in-law, Blanche Hoschedé-Monet (1865–1947). She learned to paint at Monet's shoulder, and exhibited and sold her work through the leading Parisian dealers of the time. Her finest paintings suggest an artist of such flair that you wonder how she has ...