15-year-olds are reading, calculating and reasoning worse than ever, thanks to AI, OECD findsGlobal 15-year-olds show weakest performance in reading, math, and science tests. Reading scores declined significantly, with students now ...
08 Sep, 2026, 06.43 PM IST
Meet Karl Witte, the 13-year-old German prodigy who followed a 1,000-page education philosophy and earned a PhD at 13Karl Witte was a German child prodigy whose remarkable academic journey began under an intensive home-schooling approach developed by his f...
07 Sep, 2026, 10.38 PM IST
Meet Soborno Isaac Bari, the 12-year-old American math prodigy who impressed Obama at 4, gave physics lectures at 7, and scored a perfect 1500 on the SAT at 11Suborno Isaac Bari, a twelve-year-old, graduates from Malverne High School. He is the youngest scholar to achieve this distinction in the s...
07 Sep, 2026, 08.57 PM IST
Nvidia Chief Jensen Huang declares arrival of AGI; Congratulates OpenAI team on GPT-6 Astra modelOpenAI has launched its new GPT-6 Astra model, which is described as its most intelligent system. Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang stated that Art...
07 Sep, 2026, 03.42 PM IST
Quote of the Day by Bertrand Russell: ‘A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate…’ - why accurate communication matters in everyday life, from workplace conversations to relationships, and what the renowned philosopher and Nobel Prize-winning author wanted us to understandQuote of the Day by Bertrand Russell: Bertrand Russell observed that understanding can change a message. People interpret information throu...
07 Sep, 2026, 11.51 AM IST
Board exam answer sheets: CIC tells CBSE to charge as per RTI Rules, amend circularThe Central Information Commission ordered CBSE to charge RTI photocopying fees strictly as prescribed. It also directed the board to amend...
06 Sep, 2026, 06.14 PM IST
In 1820, a French physicist invented an astatic needle which canceled out the Earth's magnetic field, enabling the creation of the sensitive GalvanometerIn 1820, a French physicist invented an astatic needle which canceled out the Earth's magnetic field, enabling the creation of the sensitiv...
05 Sep, 2026, 10.04 PM IST
Elon Musk clashes with Chess.com online over whether AI will 'solve' chessOn Thursday, Musk wrote that the number of chess moves that aren't "utterly stupid" is small and that "chess will be fully solved one day."
05 Sep, 2026, 12.56 PM IST
Quote of the day by Lewis Carroll: 'Which form of proverb do you prefer, Better late than never, or...' - thought-provoking quote by Through the Looking-Glass author teaches inspiring life lessons on timing, making choices, missed opportunities and knowing when to start late is better than neverQuote of the day by Lewis Carroll: Lewis Carroll questioned whether being late is better than never acting. He contrasted "better late than...
05 Sep, 2026, 12.43 AM IST
She left school as a child, returned at 105 and scored 100% in maths: Bhageerathi Amma’s storyBhageerathi Amma returned to formal education at 105 after family responsibilities had forced her to leave school as a child. She cleared K...
04 Sep, 2026, 08.07 PM IST
‘Do not merely complain’: Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu shares the childhood lesson that changed how he approaches problemsZoho’s Sridhar Vembu shared a childhood lesson that continues to shape his approach to problems. He recalled helping friends with mathemati...
03 Sep, 2026, 09.26 AM IST
Quote of the Day by Pythagoras: ‘If there be light, then there is darkness…’ - the ancient Greek philosopher’s lesson on opposites, adversity, prosperity and why life’s highs and lows remain inseparableQuote of the Day: Ancient philosopher Pythagoras viewed life through contrasting experiences. He placed opposites like light and darkness s...
01 Sep, 2026, 02.28 PM IST
At 11, he was solving scientific mysteries. Built one of history's earliest calculators. But a gambling problem led him to crack the mathematics of chanceBlaise Pascal was a child mathematical prodigy who wrote about vibrating bodies at 11, developed a major geometry theorem by 16 and built t...
31 Aug, 2026, 11.51 PM IST
Quote of the Day by Apollonius: 'It is a fact that we tribes of suffering men never plant our feet firmly upon the path of joy...' Inspiring lesson on suffering, joy and what his ancient wisdom teaches us about life by The Great Geometer" for his foundational work on conic sectionsQuote of the Day by Apollonius: Ancient Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga shared wisdom on life's complexities. His quote highlights ...
31 Aug, 2026, 07.01 PM IST
Indian-origin child genius aces math exam decade earlier in UKA seven-year-old Indian-origin boy achieved a high Grade 8 in a UK mathematics exam. Jivyan Reddy Dhruva passed the GCSE Higher Mathematics...
30 Aug, 2026, 03.37 PM IST
Indian NASA worker completed 3-year BSc in Maths degree in one year, went to University of Berkeley, was hailed as ‘Genius of Genius' before becoming a teacher at IIT. Then he lost everything: ‘Was seen near garbage…'Vashishtha Narayan Singh’s life story seems like someone straight from a film. It began with a lot of promise, as the late academic was hai...
27 Aug, 2026, 10.47 PM IST
This 17-year-old student built a math model that predicts how multiple diseases spread together inside the bodyAlyssa Yu, a 17-year-old Maryland student, has developed a mathematical model to predict how two infectious diseases can spread and interac...
27 Aug, 2026, 02.09 PM IST