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PureScience: Biologics unlock archaic tissue formation from mechanical pressure

An international collaboration of researchers have discovered how archaea can form tissue-like structures from simple mechanical compression, unlocking a major secret to evolution. In ThePrint #̦PureScience, Sandhya Ramesh explains the findings and their significance.

ThePrintPod: 'Trump-proofing Europe is a real project, and India can benefit in this'

 'The EU—a complex blend of 27 states, that works as a federation and confederation, with diverse foreign policies and responses to Russia’s grinding war in the East—faces a future that Europe itself must shape. One that is not reliant on the US, Russia, or China', says Foreign Policy Expert Swasti Rao. Watch: 

Tamil Nadu has the largest Iron-Age urn burial site. We must look beyond our Harappa frenzy

 Tamil Nadu has the largest Iron-Age urn burial site. We must look beyond our Harappa frenzy

ThePrintAM: What’s behind the row surrounding The Australia Today?

NationalInterest: 3-point formula for a successful campaign. Trump has it, Modi had it, Rahul still searching

What does Donald Trump’s victory tell us about what leaders do to sweep elections, lose them, or end up winning but sort of underwhelmingly? Think Trump now, Rahul Gandhi more often than not, and Narendra Modi in June this year.The first lesson from the spectacular Trump win is the formula of three for a successful campaign. Let’s say nationalism, triumphalism and cynicism. Watch this week's #NationalInterest with ThePrint Editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta.

ThePrintAM: What's on the agenda at COP29?

ThePrintPod: No star power at COP29. Heads of key countries plan to sit out climate summit

PM Modi as well as Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav are unlikely to attend COP29. Leaders from US, China, Japan & Brazil, too, plan to give it a miss.
 

CutTheClutter: Olaf Scholz's govt falling, and how Germany is designed for unlikely coalitions and instability

As German Chancellor Olaf Scholz dismisses his Finance Minister, a vote of confidence is scheduled for 15 January and collapse of government looks inevitable. Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, explains how the German system is designed based on learning from excesses of majoritarianism, and not allowing any party to control absolute power. He dissects its complex voting system & unstable coalitions in episode 1551 of Cut The Clutter. Additionally, he discusses the recent Supreme Court verdict on Aligarh Muslim University's minority status with Deputy Editor Bhadra Sinha.

ThePrintAM: How has the Maharashtra election become a battle of freebies?

CutTheClutter: How the socialist state took our right to property & why the latest SC ruling begins a correction

With the SC ruling that not all private properties can be considered ‘material resources of the community’, in Episode 1550 of #CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta traces the evolution of property rights under Article 39(b) of the Indian Constitution & how the issue can be traced back to a 1977 minority opinion by Justice Krishna Iyer.