India’s International Booker winner at the centre of a political row
Banu Mushtaq has become the subject of a controversy after she was invited to inaugurate a prominent festival in Karnataka.
A cold today helps keep the COVID away
A recent cold appears to be a defense against COVID-19 and a partial explanation for kids’ tendency toward milder coronavirus infections.
A bioengineered protein may someday treat carbon monoxide poisoning
Mice treated with the protein, which is found in bacteria, quickly eliminated carbon monoxide from their body in their pee.
Surprise! Baby girl born at Burning Man to mother who says she wasn’t expecting
Family members of woman who gave birth at Burning Man said she did not know she was pregnant until she went into labor early Wednesday
UK wants all your digital data, court filing suggests
Your freedom and privacy are at risk as the UK government continues its dangerous attempt to drive a great hole into data security, despite the
Windows 11: A guide to the updates
A Windows launch isn’t the end a process — it’s really just the beginning. Microsoft continually works on improving Windows 11 by fixing bugs, releasing
Real Madrid vs Mallorca: La Liga – teams, start, kickoff, lineups
Record La Liga winners Real Madrid entertain Mallorca in the second round of the new Spanish top flight domestic season.
Why are antigovernment protests taking place in Indonesia?
Protesters angered by police violence, parliamentarians’ wages and inflation are staging nationwide demonstrations.
Starving Sudanese resort to animal feed in besieged el-Fasher
Sudanese civilians trapped in the besieged city of el-Fasher have resorted to animal feed as the UN warns of famine.
Cataclysmic crash with neighboring planet may be the reason there’s life on Earth today, new studies hint
Early Earth may not have had the right ingredients for life — until a nearby Mars-size planet crashed into it, two new studies hint.
‘I would never let a robot incubate my child’: Poll on ‘pregnancy robots’ divides Live Science readers
Live Science readers reveal whether they would use a hypothetical “pregnancy robot” — a humanoid machine fitted with an artificial womb to sustain a human
2,200-year-old ‘complex and delicate’ Celtic warrior charm is evidence of sophisticated metalworking in the Iron Age
Archaeologists discovered a 2,200-year-old bronze warrior charm while excavating an ancient Celtic town in Germany.
Flesh-eating bacteria from oysters kills two in Louisiana
Officials in Louisiana on Friday confirmed two people have now died after getting sick from eating raw oysters and contracting flesh-eating bacteria.
Why has Kamala Harris’ security detail been withdrawn?
The overstretched Secret Service is required to provide 6 months of protection to former vice-presidents.