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
Gisèle Pelicot, the French woman who waived her anonymity during the trial of her former husband Dominique Pelicot, has warned that pornography is a “scourge” on society that is shaping children’s understanding
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Nasa has announced the start of a $20 billion programme to build a permanent base on the Moon, describing it as one of the most ambitious engineering efforts in human history and
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A new phase of artificial intelligence adoption is taking shape inside global businesses, according to a Google report issued today that draws on insights from more than 3,400 executives worldwide alongside internal
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For decades, neuroscience has operated under one dominant metaphor: the brain as a computer. Researchers have compared neurons to circuits, cognition to software, and consciousness to information processing. But a growing movement
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The investigation into the Air India 171 crash in Ahmedabad, which killed 260 people on June 12, 2025, has become increasingly contested as engineers, pilots, and aviation specialists question whether the sequence
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The promise that artificial intelligence will dramatically reshape the global workforce is no longer a distant Silicon Valley prediction. For years, technology executives and investors have argued that AI would unlock historic
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An international team of archaeologists and scientists has uncovered the first direct chemical evidence of anaesthetic use on ancient surgical instruments, offering remarkable new insight into the sophistication of medical practices in
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Stressful moments such as job interviews or high-pressure public speaking may do more than just make people uneasy—they can fundamentally interfere with how the brain builds meaning from experience. A study published
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An 80-year-old problem in discrete geometry, first posed by legendary Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, has been solved in a way that contradicts his original conjecture, according to findings announced by OpenAI and
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At this year’s Google I/O conference, the conversation around artificial intelligence moved beyond chatbots and productivity software into something far more consequential: the possibility that AI systems could eventually function as scientists
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