Sri Lanka’s Education Ministry is preparing to implement the second phase of its proposed education reforms next year, as the government faces the challenge of securing public understanding and political support for
by Our Political Affairs Editor The monstrous spectacle that has recently unfolded in Sri Lanka’s tuition culture is not merely an aberration of individual pathology but a reflection of the perverted dynamics
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Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million years ago revealing branching evolutionary stories of survival, intermixing, and extinctions. Archaeology is increasingly allowing
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A research team at Stanford has introduced two new AI benchmarks designed to reduce bias in artificial intelligence models and improve their understanding of societal complexities. The benchmarks, which were published on
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The attacks on colleges and universities — Donald Trump’s administration has warned some 60 colleges that they could lose federal money if they fail to make campuses safe for Jewish students and is already pulling $400 million from Columbia
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In a shift that is reshaping both higher education and retirement living, university-based retirement communities are becoming increasingly popular across the United States. These communities offer retirees an intellectually stimulating and socially
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China has long been a hub for global scientific research, attracting foreign scholars with promising funding opportunities and cutting-edge facilities. However, in recent years, evolving security laws and pandemic restrictions have posed
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China’s Supreme People’s Court has taken a significant step in addressing academic misconduct by calling for a crackdown on paper mills—businesses that generate and sell fraudulent or low-quality research papers. This move
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by Eric Hugh Barker’s Quantum Leaps is an ambitious, sprawling text that aims to bridge the esoteric world of theoretical mathematics with the tangible advancements in modern technology. However, in its effort
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Rigid thinking has been linked to social and professional problems, difficulty in adapting to societal change, and mental health issues that can lead to suicide and mass shootings. The challenges associated with inflexible thinking
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by Satchi Timothy Caulfield’s The Certainty Illusion is a masterful, incendiary dissection of the modern knowledge crisis, a book that dares to claw at the bedrock of our cognitive complacency. With surgical
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In a groundbreaking development, researchers have unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) tool capable of diagnosing a range of diseases — including diabetes, HIV, COVID-19, and autoimmune conditions — from a single blood
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The lawless science of our law, That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances, Thro’ which a few, by wit or fortune led, May beat a pathway out to wealth
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OpenAI has introduced a new pay-for-access tool called deep research, which compiles cited, multi-page reports in minutes, potentially revolutionizing how scientists conduct literature reviews. While many researchers are impressed with its ability
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The mantis shrimp, known for delivering the fastest punch in the animal kingdom, has long puzzled scientists with its ability to unleash devastating blows without harming itself. Now, new research has uncovered
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Editor’s note: This article, “Spontaneous Revolutions: Darwin’s Diagrams of Plant Movement,” was originally published in The Public Domain Review under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse it, please see https://publicdomainreview.org/reusing-material/. It was
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