Gonzalo Suárez is being presented anew as a pioneering figure in Spanish literature and cinema, with Javier Cercas arguing that the writer and filmmaker was the country’s first truly postmodern author. The
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool capable of identifying more than 1,000 potentially questionable open-access journals, highlighting a growing concern over the integrity of scholarly publishing. The study, published in
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Global political history is punctuated by state entities that, after vanishing from the international stage, have reemerged in new forms—sometimes radically transformed, sometimes strikingly faithful to their origins. These revived states—polities that
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In January this year, South Korean researcher Byeongjun Park opened an e-mail that would draw him into one of the most heated debates in modern science. Two computer scientists in India told
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The UK’s national AI institute, the Alan Turing Institute, is facing a growing crisis, with insiders citing infighting, accusations of a toxic culture, and claims that its leadership has failed to deliver
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is undergoing a significant evolution, as developers increasingly focus on building agents — autonomous systems capable of perceiving their environment and acting independently to achieve goals. According to a
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For more than 25 years, the internet’s front door has been unmistakably simple: a blank white page, a search bar, and the iconic Google logo. That minimalist design has been the launchpad
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The humble potato — long celebrated as a staple food and driver of historic empires — has just had its deepest secret uncovered: it is, quite literally, a child of the tomato.
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Professor Arjuna Parakrama has issued a sharp and deeply critical response to the education reforms proposed by Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya, calling them hollow, unoriginal, and dangerously
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Researchers have found that merely seeing someone who appears sick can activate the body’s immune system, as if preparing for infection. The study, published on July 28 in Nature Neuroscience, reveals how
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In a remarkable leap, materials chemist Nan Liu jumped from a postdoctoral post in the United States to a full professorship in China — armed with a 4 million yuan (US$560,000) research
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo In 2026, Sri Lanka will witness one of the most significant shifts in its education system in decades. At the helm of this transformation is Prime Minister
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There seems to be no end in sight to headline-grabbing controversies at the White House, during US President Donald Trump’s second term’. They range from Trump’s snide remarks about visiting dignitaries to
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In a characteristically unfiltered and provocative interview with El País, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek opens the floodgates on his personal misanthropy, political despair, and philosophical radicalism, delivering a stream of consciousness that
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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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