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
EVE Energy Co., one of China’s leading lithium-ion battery manufacturers, announced plans to build two new plants with a combined annual capacity of 110 gigawatt-hours at a total investment of 11 billion
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Jeff Bezos’s Project Prometheus has recruited Kyle Kosic, a co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI and former OpenAI engineer, signaling the start-up’s aggressive push to dominate industrial AI applications. According to reporting by
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Researchers in Switzerland have discovered that beaver activity can turn stream corridors into net carbon sinks, drawing in more carbon than they release over the course of a year. Eurasian beavers (Castor
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A newly discovered fossil site in southwestern China is rewriting the history of early animal life, revealing a surprising diversity of complex creatures that thrived before the famed Cambrian explosion. Previously, scientists
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As artificial intelligence transforms workplaces, some older professionals are choosing early retirement rather than adapt to the sweeping changes, according to reporting by the Wall Street Journal. For workers who have navigated
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A Russian cryptocurrency network under Western sanctions is seeking to establish a presence in Africa, reflecting Moscow’s broader efforts to circumvent international restrictions and extend its influence across the continent, according to
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Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI lab, is making a historic investment in Google’s chips and cloud services as it seeks to secure the computing power required to meet skyrocketing demand for its
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Despite Japan’s shrinking child population, a troubling trend is unfolding across the country’s schools: more students than ever are refusing to attend class. What might appear at first glance as isolated cases
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The Government of Rwanda has achieved a milestone in global education by training and certifying 24000 teachers in less than twelve months, a move designed to staff 22000 newly constructed classrooms. This
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The outbreak of war in Iran has reshaped the global aviation landscape, shuttering Middle Eastern airspaces and grounding planes, leaving carriers such as Emirates, Qatar Airways, and Etihad Airways struggling to maintain
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