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
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
Moreby 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
MoreThere 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
MoreIn 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
MoreIssued 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
MoreThe 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
MoreEvery 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
MoreThousands 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
MoreIn 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
MoreA 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
MoreThis 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
MoreA 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
MoreThe 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
MoreThe 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
MoreChinese authorities have launched a major crackdown on scams targeting the upcoming national college entrance examination, or gaokao, with a special focus on those fraudulently claiming that artificial intelligence (AI) can predict
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