The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Tsinghua University signed five Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) on 22 December 2025, expanding their partnership across diverse fields including public health, engineering, law,...

Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can’t go back in time to study the environmental pressures that shaped the evolution of the diverse vision systems...

In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism. Scientists had assumed that these two quantum states...

Aviation’s climate impact is partly due to contrails — condensation that a plane streaks across the sky when it flies through icy and humid layers of the atmosphere. Contrails trap...

One of the biggest risk factors for developing liver cancer is a high-fat diet. A new study from MIT reveals how a fatty diet rewires liver cells and makes them...

In Bangladesh, a concert by rock legend James, popularly known as Nagar Baul, was cancelled last night after violence erupted at Faridpur Zila School during celebrations marking the institution’s 185th...

Japan’s Cabinet has approved a record defence budget plan exceeding 58 billion US dollars for the coming year. Through the budget, the country aims to fortify its strike-back capability and...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel intended to immediately expand cooperation in agriculture, health, and technology. Somaliland’s President, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, has described the development as a historic moment. Israeli...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will meet his US counterpart Donald Trump in Florida on Sunday, as talks continue on ending Russia’s full-scale war. Zelensky said he expected...

Foreign investment interest in Nepal has shown gradual improvement, particularly in hydropower, tourism, and information technology sectors. Investors remain attracted by Nepal’s natural resources and market potential. However, policy uncertainty,...