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Who’s your daddy? Why a DNA test is not best positioned to answer this

It might not be the right question anyway. A better one is, what does society want a father to be?

What makes radicals die for their cause? This is what brain scans found

Terrorist groups recruit new members throughout the world by capitalising on the feeling of social exclusion.

India planning to have own space station, says ISRO chief Sivan

The space station project will be an extension of India's Gaganyaan programme.

Why Chandrayaan-2 is ISRO’s ‘most complex mission’ so far

ISRO has announced that India’s second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 will be launched on 15 July.

India’s moon mission Chandrayaan-2 to be launched on July 15, says ISRO

The spacecraft will land on the moon on September 6 or 7, said ISRO chairman K Sivan.

Drug to replace chemotherapy may reshape cancer care

A class of drugs, called antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), are emerging and can possibly replace chemotherapy and its disruptive side effects.

Antibiotic resistance is not new – it existed long before people used drugs to kill bacteria

If resistance is already out there, drug development can offer only temporary relief. The challenge then is to avoid its spread.

Humans (or something similar) were always destined to walk the Earth

The broad “rules” for evolution would remain the same no matter how many times we replayed the tape.

We just taught bees a simple number language – and they got it

This shows us that while no non-human species appear to have developed number symbols, it is not because they lack brain capacity.

The honeybee is cute, charismatic, and misunderstood

Experts say honeybees don't need to be saved. By focusing too much on them, we risk ignoring certain problems faced by all the other bees.

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Hezbollah mistook anti-Netanyahu protests as disunity in Israel—a genuinely liberal country

Israel's successes in Lebanon are spearheaded by the Intelligence Corps and the Air Force, which gave calls to cease volunteer reserve service should Netanyahu curtail the Supreme Court's authority.

After a brief surge, private investment & hiring has again turned cautious. Focus is on cutting debt

Financial year 2022-23 saw private investments & hiring surge, but since then firms are using cash to reduce debt. General elections didn’t help matters, either.

Indian envoy in Oman dons Army combat print for photo ops, sparks controversy

Ambassador Amit Narang wore combat uniform at closing ceremony of India-Oman joint military exercise. Only serving personnel can wear service uniforms, say veterans.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?