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
Chinese President Xi Jinping has launched an expansive new vision for international artificial intelligence co-operation, presenting Beijing’s most comprehensive proposal yet to position itself as a global leader in AI development while
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Chinese artificial intelligence developers have drawn renewed attention after the release of two advanced open-source AI models, Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8, prompting fresh debate over whether lower-cost alternatives can challenge the
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The race to dominate artificial intelligence is reshaping not only the technology industry but also the balance sheets of some of the world’s largest corporations. Behind soaring investment in data centres, advanced
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Nearly four decades after the world embarked on one of the largest public health campaigns in history, the effort to eradicate polio has reached a decisive moment. Once seen as being on
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The human heart has long been viewed as an organ that faithfully responds to signals from the brain, beating faster or slower according to the body’s needs. New research, however, suggests that
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When was the last time you wrote something by hand? Was it a stylus signature at a checkout stand, a kitchen calendar reminder, or a note jotted down on a scrap of
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Opposition to the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence data centres is moving beyond local protests and into legislative chambers, online campaigns and, in some instances, threatening rhetoric, according to a year-long assessment
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When the first image from Taiwan’s newly launched Formosat-8A satellite finally appeared on computer screens inside the Taiwan Space Agency’s control room, it marked the end of years of uncertainty for the
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When Luis Miguel Trinidad began studying engineering at the University of Seville four years ago, terms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, prompts, and tokens were unfamiliar to most university students. By the
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Boeing has reaffirmed its long-term forecast for global demand for new commercial aircraft, maintaining its projection of more than 43,000 deliveries over the next two decades despite slower passenger traffic growth this
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