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Lightning discharges: Sparks in Martian dust reveal hidden electricity
The same triboelectric process operates in volcanic eruptions on Earth, where ash particles accumulating charge can initiate large lightning...
Siberian lifeline: Eurasia's great water gamble
6 Dec 2025 10:27 AM ISTThe convergence of climate, economic, and geopolitical crises, together with new technological advances, has transformed this once impractical concept...
Volatile homecoming: Refugees return to uncertain Syria
6 Dec 2025 10:10 AM ISTNearly 1.5 million Syrians have returned home since Assad’s fall, a surge driven less by renewed safety than by worsening conditions in host countries...
Digital crosswinds: With AI and Wordle, Leo proves to be a Pope of...
6 Dec 2025 9:50 AM ISTLeo’s discussion of technology was part of a broader call for human connection. As might be expected from a pope whose first word after election was...
Shares security: Include Taiwan, strengthen global policing
5 Dec 2025 7:24 AM ISTTaiwan’s continued exclusion from Interpol weakens global policing at a time of rapidly expanding transnational crime. Its proven law enforcement...
Editorial: For a few dollars more
5 Dec 2025 6:50 AM ISTOn Thursday, Dec. 4, it touched 90.44, a fall of more than 54%. It has weakened 5.3% just this calendar year, becoming the worst-performing Asian...
Costly congestion: Car dependency slowing down UK
5 Dec 2025 6:30 AM ISTIn the last 30 years, as the UK population has grown by 19%, the number of cars has risen by 56%. Outside London, 81% of British households own at...
Cheetah conservation: Namibia’s frozen lifeline for the fastest animal
5 Dec 2025 6:10 AM ISTMarker says the sperm bank at the Cheetah Conservation Fund, which she founded in the southern African nation, is a “frozen zoo” she has been building...
