About a decade ago, I (Frank W. Putnam) read an editorial by the president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences lamenting the high rates of fraudulent research published in Chinese journals. Could ...

The latest utility-scale power generation statistics in South Africa, compiled by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), show that Eskom has staged a miraculous turnaround in 2025.

As the cold crept in during the bleak end of 2020 and students emerged from online school to the release of a winter break, a trend befitting the climate and attitude of the season surfaced. The ...

In school Americans were taught that the world works on the basis of education, science, law, honesty, goodwill, elections, free enterprise, corporate responsibility, government ethics, ...

Michael Weatherly and Jessica Alba have made rare comments about their relationship — and how their age gap contributed to their split — in the years since ending their engagement. Weatherly and Alba ...

The “golden age” of air travel promised lobster dinners, champagne, and glamorous lounges – but the reality was shocking. Tickets cost months of wages, cabins filled with cigarette smoke, and fatal ...

People in Mississippi can no longer use the social media platform Bluesky. The company announced Friday that it will be blocking all IP addresses within Mississippi for the foreseeable future in ...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. How churches use data and AI as engines of surveillance On a ...

Just like the Renaissance followed the “Dark Ages,” a nuclear renaissance is on the verge of awakening in the United States. When trying to predict the future, it is useful to look back to what ...

A mathematician by training, he acquired a devoted following with songs that set sardonic lyrics to music that was often maddeningly cheerful. By Richard Severo and Peter Keepnews Tom Lehrer, the ...