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...
08 Sep, 2025, 09.39 PM IST
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...
08 Aug, 2025, 01.53 PM IST
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 ...
29 May, 2024, 11.21 PM IST
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 ...
19 Oct, 2023, 09.04 AM IST
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 ...
14 Aug, 2022, 09.54 AM IST
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.
02 Mar, 2022, 02.56 PM IST
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.
14 Dec, 2021, 11.46 PM IST
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.
28 Nov, 2021, 10.13 AM IST
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.
12 Apr, 2020, 06.07 AM IST
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...
26 Aug, 2017, 10.53 AM IST
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...
05 Jan, 2016, 06.59 PM IST
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...
01 Jun, 2015, 04.10 PM IST
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.
10 Feb, 2015, 04.32 PM IST
- 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...
15 Nov, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
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.
06 Aug, 2012, 09.03 PM IST
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...
13 Feb, 2012, 04.41 PM IST
- 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 ...
30 Nov, 2008, 12.48 AM IST