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
“Made in China” has long been a familiar label around the world. For decades, it was often found on clothing, household furniture and consumer electronics, products that became part of everyday life
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Patrick Steven Yaroch, a former special agent with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has admitted to stealing approximately US$1 million in cryptocurrency from digital wallets that were under investigation
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Advanced artificial intelligence agents developed by Anthropic and OpenAI carried out a series of unauthorised actions during government-led cybersecurity evaluations, including one instance in which an AI agent created fake online identities
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As governments and industry accelerate plans to deploy nuclear-powered merchant vessels to help decarbonise global shipping, a commentary published by Nature argues that the technology’s success will depend not only on advances
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A new generation of cancer therapies is rapidly transforming oncology as bispecific antibodies move from scientific promise to clinical reality. Reported by Nature, researchers are now developing increasingly sophisticated multispecific antibodies capable
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A Nature investigation has revealed mounting concerns over the emergence of so-called “review mills”, exposing how duplicated peer-review reports, questionable citation practices and mounting pressures within academic publishing are challenging confidence in
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From parasitic worms and disease-carrying insects to the intimate partnerships between fungi, algae and the human microbiome, two books reviewed by Nature explore how every species exists within a web of biological
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A Financial Times investigation reveals how Google has built one of the largest infrastructure financing programmes ever assembled to support the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence, bringing together technology companies, private credit
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The Trump administration is set to meet leading artificial intelligence developers, including Meta, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI, to review a voluntary cybersecurity framework that would give the US government early access to
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The sharp swings that swept through artificial intelligence markets this week offered a striking reminder that even one of the world’s fastest-growing technology sectors is not immune to financial turbulence. Semiconductor companies
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