Tag: World

The Chinese government’s ‘guideline on the reform of higher education institutions’, calls for universities ‘to pursue distinct development paths’ and ‘foster new forms of integrated education’. | Photo Credit: Getty Images In September 2026, China’s government unveiled an ambitious 10-year plan to reform its universities. Driving the change is an increasingly challenging job market for...

SpaceX logo and miniature satellite model. File | Photo Credit: Reuters On October 14, Ukrainian soldiers using drones to attack Russian forces in Zaporizhzhia and elsewhere started to find many of their machines were losing satellite connectivity. Given Ukraine’s extensive and largely successful use of drones in the war, the anomaly was noticeable, forcing operators...

SpaceX logo and miniature satellite model. File | Photo Credit: Reuters On October 14, Ukrainian soldiers using drones to attack Russian forces in Zaporizhzhia and elsewhere started to find many of their machines were losing satellite connectivity. Given Ukraine’s extensive and largely successful use of drones in the war, the anomaly was noticeable, forcing operators...

For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples have passed down their traditions and culture through oral storytelling. Now, an Indigenous community in Canada is using a data centre to help preserve its heritage. The Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory in rural Ontario installed a small data centre as part of efforts to modernise its record-keeping systems. Among the...

A man described as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national employed as an OpenAI engineer, looks behind a television where a recording device had been placed at a conference room in OpenAI offices, in a still image from surveillance video included in a charging document after U.S. federal agents the man and charged him with installing...

Elon Musk’s Starship megarocket reached orbit for the first time on Monday (September 28, 2026) after blasting off from Texas, in a major milestone for SpaceX’s plans, including trips to the Moon and Mars. The black-and-silver behemoth, standing more than 120 meters (131 yards) tall, rose through a thick cloud of smoke on an ambitious...

An army of experts in a WhatsApp group is guiding rescue workers scouring a Nepali valley after a massive flash flood more than a week ago, as they desperately search for anyone who may still be alive inside the tunnels of devastated hydropower plants. The messaging group was set up by engineers before the wall...

Spectators across Spain watched in wonder, some whipping off their protective ‌glasses and rising to their feet in unison, as a rare total solar eclipse swept across the ​north of the country on Wednesday (August 12, 2026) evening, plunging it into darkness. Spain deployed a massive police contingent ⁠and set up special viewing spots across...

Millions of people gathered in Iceland and northern Spain to witness Europe’s first total ‌solar eclipse in 27 years on Wednesday (August 12, 2026), with Spanish officials warning people to avoid areas where a heatwave ​has raised the risk of wildfires. Authorities were expecting up to 6 million visitors in mostly rural areas within the...

Volunteers armed with chisels, brushes and protective goggles chip away at rock encasing the bones of a massive prehistoric amphibian in a glass-walled laboratory on the ground floor of Warsaw’s Copernicus Science Centre. On the other side of the wall, visitors watch the work unfold on the bones of the nearly six metre (20 foot)-long...