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A smartphone app that can identify heart attacks with a simple sensor attachment
Ians • 7 years agoThe app seems to be almost as accurate as a standard, 12-lead ECG used to diagnose heart attacks.
Eight critically-endangered Indian vultures to be released into the wild next year
Tech2 News Staff • 7 years agoThis effort is the second long-term project of its kind to preserve the endangered Indian vultures.
Two lions, 110 vultures poisoned at South Africa's Kruger park
Fp Archives • 10 years agoSuggesting a new poaching trend in the heavily-guarded Kruger National Park, two lions and over 100 vultures died after eating the poisoned carcass
India gets first restaurant for vultures to save the birds from extinction
Fp Archives • 10 years agoNumbers of white-backed vultures - once the most common large raptor in the world - have collapsed by more than 99 per cent across the Indian subcontinent.
How pain medication is killing India's vultures
Fp Staff • 13 years agoThe Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and UK-based Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) have drawn attention to a recent research paper highlighting threats to vultures.