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
Issued today, 8 July 2025, by the Hinrich Foundation in Singapore, Stewart Paterson’s incisive report “Will Industrial Policy Restore American Manufacturing Leadership?” interrogates the ambitious, multifaceted campaign by the United States to
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The laboratory of developmental biologist Michael Levin at Tufts University, with its dozen or so postgrads, is a hub of ideas, experiments, and discoveries. Most exciting is the focus on cognition as
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Every morning, I open the newspapers (now on apps rather than print) and read about atrocities taking place across the world. There is an inflation of pain, from the genocide in Gaza
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Thousands of university students across the UK have been caught misusing artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT to cheat on academic assignments, as traditional plagiarism rates continue to decline, according to a
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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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This is a story of humble fishermen children from Kytes Island J/Thambaddy Government Tamil Mixed Vidyalam and J/ Delft Maha Vidyalam from Northern most inhabited island of Sri Lanka, Delft Island who
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A Chinese-led international team has identified a new super-Earth located within the habitable zone of a sun-like star, marking a significant step forward in the search for extraterrestrial life. The planet, designated
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The once-robust academic exchange between the United States and China is facing unprecedented strain, as accusations of espionage involving Chinese students gain momentum in American political and media circles. According to a
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.– Milan Kundera In an age where culture is the primary battlefield, authoritarianism thrives on ignorance, historical amnesia and the
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