Oil prices surged dramatically on Friday, posting their biggest single-day gain in over three years, after Israeli air strikes targeted Iranian nuclear facilities — a development that threatens to destabilize one of
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Leading scientists from around the world have launched an urgent international campaign to halt the creation of synthetic “mirror life” — a form of engineered bacteria that experts fear could pose a
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China’s electric vehicle (EV) sector is teetering on a financial knife-edge, as a deepening price war triggers liquidity shortfalls and mounting pressure on automakers’ balance sheets. An investigation by the Financial Times
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South Korea’s recently elected left-leaning president Lee Jae-myung has taken his first major step toward resetting inter-Korean relations by ordering an end to provocative loudspeaker broadcasts along the heavily militarized border. The
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by Our Correspondent in Doha Iran has launched a wave of Shahed-136 drones toward Israel in direct retaliation for a series of Israeli airstrikes earlier today that reportedly killed several senior Iranian
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In a remarkable scientific advancement published in Nature, researchers have developed a brain–computer interface (BCI) that enables a man with a severe speech disability to speak expressively and even sing — using
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A groundbreaking study published in Neuron on June 5 reveals how the brain tells the difference between real and imagined images — a cognitive skill most of us take for granted but
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A year after Agility Robotics’ humanoid robot Digit began working in a warehouse, lifting boxes of Spanx, the conversation around humanoid robots has shifted from novelty to necessity—particularly the need for clear
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The Trump administration’s aggressive push to streamline federal agencies continues to reverberate, with the latest casualty being a critical oversight body within the Department of Defense. As reported by MIT Technology Review,
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by Our Correspondent in Doha In the wake of a deadly Israeli airstrike on Tehran, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has issued two major interim military appointments, signaling Iran’s readiness for
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by Our Correspondent in Doha A series of coordinated Israeli airstrikes struck multiple locations in and around Tehran overnight, killing several high-ranking Iranian military and civilian officials, including Major General Hossein Salami,
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India is a very nervous country, and it got far worse today, June 12th, 2025 when a Boeing 787-8 aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff. There is no suggestion (yet) of sabotage, although
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The Crash 12 June 2025 will go down in the annals of aviation and travel as a sad day. Drawing on reports from the media, flight AI 171—a Boeing 787‑8 Dreamliner carrying 242
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The Indian media reports make out that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reception for the seven parliamentary delegations waging the war on terror turned into a social occasion to celebrate the flashes of ‘national unity’
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“We look for the poorest patients,” the Cuban doctor in charge of the eye clinic said. “Often we travel to remote rural areas and bring them to the clinic in a bus.”
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