Electrified groundwater irrigation majorly drives India's agricultural growth. India refocussed rural electrification towards universal household electrification in early 2000s. This paper finds regions electrifying more recently to experience far lower gains in electrified groundwater irrigation.
An evolutionary chase: how mimicry remains imperfect despite rapid evolution of mimics.
Using a 50 year time series of egg photos of prinias and their mimic, the cuckoo finch, we showed that although cuckoo finch eggs evolve towards prinia eggs, concurrent evolution of prinia eggs maintains imperfection in the degree of mimicry.
Crimea’s place in Europe 36,000 years ago: a tale of ancient genomes
Persistence, hard work, and French-Ukrainian interdisciplinary collaboration enabled us to reveal, hidden in the genomes of two Upper Paleolithic people from Crimea, the story of the early peopling of Europe which continues to resonate in the present.