KEY TAKEAWAYS Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for optogenetics, a technique that uses light to switch individual nerve cells on and off. The discovery began with a light-sensing protein in pond algae and …
Key takeaways Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi says Japan will draft its first national intelligence strategy, a step that could lead to a CIA-style foreign intelligence agency. She made the announcement at the first meeting of a 17-member expert panel on intelligence reform. Illustration: WHAT TODAY? …
Key takeaways G7 leaders agreed on Friday to release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude from strategic reserves over four months, with a large diesel tranche within 20 days, after US President Donald Trump dropped his threatened ban on American diesel exports. The move …
Joe Biden is not only US president to back Israel amid criticism of military operations and abuses against Palestinians.
While the Pentagon seeks an aircraft carrier to help protect the NATO troops in Afghanistan as they withdraw, President Arif Alvi has made it absolutely clear...