Israeli naval forces, far from the country’s shores, intercepted and seized a Gaza-bound ship carrying international activists, including Greta Thunberg, in an early morning raid Monday.

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, a distinguished officer of the Indian Air Force, is set to become one of the few Indians to visit the International Space Station (ISS)

In his confirmation hearings to lead the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya pledged his openness to views that might conflict with his own. “Dissent,” he said, “is the very essence of science.”