The latest PISA assessment presents an unusually stark picture of educational performance. More than 760,000 15-year-old students across 91 participating countries and economies were assessed, producing evidence of broad declines in some
Since the turn of the century, there has been a consistent average annual loss of 3 to 4 million hectares (7.4 to 9.9 million acres) of tropical forest globally. This puts us far from
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A few years ago, I hired a ‘safari’ jeep to take me into the Bundala National Park, one of the world’s great bird reserves, on the south-east coast of Sri Lanka. After
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The title of this newsletter, ‘My heart makes my head swim’, comes from Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks (1952). In a chapter called ‘The Fact of Blackness’, Fanon writes about the despair that
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You might be wondering … what’s it like to be the graduation speaker on an American college campus these days? On Monday evening, I got the chance to find out. Columbia University’s
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A collaborative effort between Chinese and international researchers has shed light on the evolutionary journey of baobab trees, pinpointing Madagascar as the cradle of all baobab species. Published on Wednesday in the
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The Sun emitted a strong solar flare, peaking at 10:38 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, according to NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured an image of
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India’s annual expenditure on artificial intelligence may hit $5 billion by 2027, up from $1.7 billion in 2023, according to a new report, cited by PTI news agency. India has consistently ranked among the top
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In a groundbreaking event streamed live today, OpenAI, the forefront pioneer in artificial intelligence, has unleashed ChatGPT 4o, a quantum leap in AI technology, featuring an array of powerful voice assistant and
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A pioneering collaboration between Baylor College of Medicine and Yale University has yielded a groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) model, poised to revolutionize our understanding of brain activity and its correlation with human
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A small robot ran around the field, turning back and forth and then swiftly from left to right, picking up triballs, a ball in the shape of a triangle, and moving them
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