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On This Day, June 5: D-Day, Operation Blue Star, RFK assassination, AIDS epidemic, Marshall Plan and other key eventsOn This Day, June 5, history witnessed several defining moments across war, politics and social change. The date is associated with the D-D...
Nature just outsmarted Silicon Valley: That trendy houseplant on your windowsill has been doing advanced Math this whole timeThe Chinese money plant quietly organizes itself using a geometric system that humans only formalized in the computer age — and it does so ...
Quote of the day on artificial intelligence (AI) by Alan Turing: 'A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could...'Alan Turing’s work laid the foundation for modern artificial intelligence, particularly through his concept of the Turing Test, which evalu...
China scores big - Liu Jun, statistical genius, leaves Harvard for Tsinghua in surprise move - what happened?Chinese statistician returning from US: Renowned statistician Liu Jun, formerly at Harvard, is now back in China. He joins Tsinghua Univers...
Alien abduction, US military involvement, terror attack? Revisiting MH370’s web of conspiracy theoriesAs the search continues for a missing aircraft near Tasmania, echoes of MH370's disappearance resurface. The Boeing 777 vanished in 2014 wi...
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370: Mystery unraveled? Is debris scattered in Cambodian forests?Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 was on its regular path from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur to the Chinese city of Beijing in March ...
Britain aims for global leadership role with AI safety summitThe UK will host the world's first global AI safety summit next month, aiming to establish itself as a leader in AI regulation. The summit ...
Pushkar: The glimpse of world's ancient civilisationsNot many know that a small and silent town Pushkar, known as one amongst the world's oldest, accommodates this differently themed property ...
Space junk on 5,800-mph collision course with moonThe moon is about to get walloped by 3 tons of space junk, a punch that will carve out a crater that could fit several semitractor-trailers.
Shanghai Data Exchange: Can it create history like Amsterdam Stock Exchange in 1602?The real value of data will be determined by such data exchanges.
China study warns of 'colossal' COVID outbreak if it opens up like U.S., FranceDaily cases would hit 275,793 if China took the same approach as Britain and 454,198 if it imitated France, it said.
Mathematical models are used to predict Covid-19’s path, but is the incoming data sound?One challenge epidemiologists are facing now in India is the lack of data to track Covid’s trajectory.
All the sines of a new father of trianglesAncient Indian and Chinese mathematicians who also independently arrived at the same conclusions make up the other points of this triangula...
Landing site of China's first lunar lander named "Moon Palace"China today named the landing site of its first moon lander Chang'e-3 as "Guang Han Gong" or "Moon Palace", more than two years after the s...
Indian mathematician Radhanath Sikdar first to identify Everest as highest mountain peakIndian mathematician and surveyor Radhanath Sikdar was probably the first person to identify that Mount Everest was the world's highest pea...
All languages skew towards happiness: StudyA team of scientists at the University of Vermont and colleagues used a massive data set of many billions of words, based on actual usage.
- Of medium & message
Beyond paper’s obvious utility as a writing surface, its invention in China during the early years of the modern era made possible the intr...
Slow growth raises spectre of unemployment in ChinaChina faces unemployment problem as a record number of 6.8 million new college graduates poured in to the job market this year.
China, an emerging super power in Science and technology: Anand KumarIndia needs to work on "war-footing" to improve its education system if it wants to compete at the international level where China is emerg...
- Survivors want to return, thank city’s brave firemen
Two Americans, one 64 and the other 76, trapped at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel on that fateful night, made a daring escape with the help of ...