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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicHuman species

Topic: Human species

Tinier arm shows scientists where early humans’ ‘Hobbit’ cousins came from — Nature study

A 700,000-year-old arm fossil answers questions about origins of previously discovered species, Homo floresiensis. It is now estimated that their small stature evolved over 300,000 years.

60% of life on Earth is lost, and 6 other science discoveries of 2018

In 2018, humans found out that evolution of complex life happened far before we thought, and memory can be ‘transplanted’ between organisms.

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What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.