India’s youth-led Cockroach party may prove as hard to kill as its namesake

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June 18, 2026
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The greatest challenge to India’s government in years began as an online joke. On May 16, after Supreme Court Chief Justice Surya Kant described unemployed youth as “cockroaches”, Abhijeet Dipke, an international student in the United States, mused on X, “What if all cockroaches come together?” Thousands responded. Dipke had hit a nerve. Soon after, […]

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A waltz over evolutionary timescales: why it’s so hard for animals to invent a new mating dance

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June 14, 2026
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“Love makes fools of all of us,” wrote 19th-century novelist William Makepeace Thackeray. A moment spent watching the pigeons at your local park suggests he was right: males with puffed-up, shimmering necks hop, pirouette, coo, and bow to capture the attention of unimpressed females. But why do male pigeons express themselves through the passion of […]

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