ON 9 July 2026, researchers from US universities published a paper in the top-rated journal  Science describing a powerful new AI tool for biomedical research. A year earlier, they had made the initial manuscript available as open access to all by publishing it on bioRxiv, an online repository, and making the software available on GitHub, an online platform for researchers to share code.

THE US-Israel war against Iran is a continuation of a war that the US and Israel have launched in West Asia against any country or organised resistance to their neo-colonial policies. However, Iran’s resistance, along with Hezbollah’s ability to fight Israel’s “expansion” into Lebanon, has created a new dynamic in the region for the first time. It has not only challenged US global hegemony but also shown that smaller military powers can resist much larger ones through asymmetric warfare.

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ON MAY 1, 2026, the United States Department of Defence finalised classified artificial intelligence contracts with eight corporations: OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Oracle, SpaceX, and the startup Reflection AI. These agreements will deploy large language models on classified military networks. The one major AI laboratory that was excluded, Anthropic, was dropped because the Trump administration blacklisted it for insisting on safety guardrails.

The species of Andes hantavirus that has been in the news is not likely to affect us in India immediately. So far, that species has existed only in South America and on one cruise ship. Right now, large-scale outbreaks are probably not coming for us. The real threat is not hantavirus.  The real threat is the deliberate, systematic dismantling of global and national pandemic preparedness by anti-science regimes in the US and India. The hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius is not an incoming plague – it's a dress rehearsal, a trial.