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Zarrar Khuhro

Murder, he wrote

In countless videos we see the police escorting mobs of Hindutva extremists who proudly boast of the police’s support.

03 Mar 2020 7:04 AM

Because viruses, along with making us sick and occasionally killing us, have helped us evolve.

In the future, viruses may well be hailed as saviours, not scourges

But amidst all the panic and apocalyptic fear-mongering, we forget the debt that we owe viruses.

18 Feb 2020 1:38 AM

America’s dogs of war rehearse Iran invasion: The same old ritual

Red’s job was to hold back the blue navy and prevent an invasion.

07 Jan 2020 1:40 AM

But the march to the future is relentless, and soon we will see meats that are not made from cows or vegetable substitutes but, instead, grown in a lab. (Photo: AP)

Is this way to a healthy future? ‘Fake’ meat, made in a lab

Going further, we find that producing a pound of beef takes about 1,799 gallons of water which is arguably not exactly very efficient.

10 Dec 2019 1:06 AM

It also has no stomach, eyes or mouth but can seek out and digest its favourite food which, you’ll be glad to know, isn’t human flesh but oatmeal.

Fungus net: A giant underground brain with unimagined potential

Humongous because not only does it weigh over 400 tons, this single organism covers about 2,385 acres in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest.

31 Oct 2019 12:10 AM

As Trump talks peace over Turkey, Kurds bear the brunt

Clearly, out of the mouth of (orange-maned) babes there do occasionally come words of truth.

15 Oct 2019 1:07 AM

A family waits for food assistance to be distributed in Thonyor, Leer County, one of the areas in which famine has been declared, in South Sudan. (Photo: AP)

Global famine is on the way: World faces its biggest crisis

Modern food production has its issues as well, especially when it comes to meat.

20 Aug 2019 8:15 AM

Microflora are passed down the generations, starting with the first gulp of mother’s milk and “good” microflora are now known to play a part in a child’s early cognitive development. (Representational image)

How microbes in our body can affect our health

Now it emerges that the legions that live within us can affect us in ways we never dreamt were possible.

06 Aug 2019 12:10 AM

Harappa also provides clues as to the extent of the trade network, as beads, seashells and stones have been recovered from the site, which were not available locally.

The marvel & mystery of the Indus Valley civilisation

The other piece of good news is that this gives me the opportunity to write about the fascinating Indus Valley civilisation itself.

09 Jul 2019 12:08 AM

From dictators to democrats: Interests always trump ideology

It was a telling blunder, in that it told us exactly what the source of this news was.

26 Jun 2019 2:46 AM

Others have been studying the ability of geckos to generate limbs in an attempt to give the same ability to humans. (Photo: Pixabay)

The science of tinkering with our genes is a tricky slope

There are other possibilities being studied as well, such as introducing traits from the animal kingdom into humanity.

11 Jun 2019 1:33 AM

Enough plastic is thrown away each year to circle the earth four times.

Plastic surgery

In 2008, this tiny West African nation banned all non-biodegradable plastic bags.

16 Apr 2019 1:03 AM

Astronomer David Hughes spent years studying the Biblical tales of the star from an astronomical perspective. (Representational image)

Beyond belief

That brings us to the tale of Sodom and Gomorrah, where divine vengeance wiped out these sinful cities in a rain of sulphur and fire.

25 Dec 2018 6:31 AM

Spyware is endangering people’s lives

What they found was a form of spyware they had not yet seen, despite the fact that their entire job is to root out and counter such malicious tools.

11 Dec 2018 1:32 AM

Saudi, Erdogan in media war after death of Khashoggi

Granted, it was not a fight between equals, and the mind-boggling incompetence of the Saudis made for easy pickings.

30 Oct 2018 5:02 AM

Chinese President Xi Jinping (Photo: AP)

Nationalism is eroding democracy

That’s a popular drug these days, and all we have to do is look next door at India to see the consequences.

02 Oct 2018 12:25 AM

Militarisation of space is not anything new

In order to offset America’s massive satellite surveillance networks, lasers are also being developed to effectively “blind” those satellites.

22 Aug 2018 1:18 AM

Sometime in the late Ice Age, about 40,000 years ago, a bunch of tiny roundworms took a nap somewhere in what is now Siberia and ended up cryogenically preserved until some busybody scientists thawed them out and found that the worms resumed life and normal function as if they had simply taken a short nap. (Photo: Pixabay)

Viruses buried in Siberia may hold the key to planet’s future

With the recent discovery of a lake of water under Mars’ southern polar cap, intriguing revelations may be on the cards.

07 Aug 2018 6:32 AM

For patients of Alzheimer’s and dementia, memory implants and reactivation will be a life-changer, just as the ability to mute or erase memories will be for trauma victims. (Photo: Pixabay)

Can we erase, fabricate or transfer our memories?

The US military has funded a project that aims to boost human memory by implanting neural chips in humans.

12 Jun 2018 3:34 AM

Evangelicals are hardcore Trump supporters

Many Jewish fundamentalists share the evangelicals’ beliefs — up to a point.

29 May 2018 12:49 AM

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