Why this award-winning Indigenous centre is more than just a building A youth hub has taken home the ACT's top architecture prize. The Canberra Times · Jul 6
How the United States and China shape complementary competition in global AI Companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Nvidia significantly influence the architecture of the global AI industry. TechRadar · Jul 6
Scientists Found Exactly How Deep Sleep Triggers the Hormone That Repairs Your Body UC Berkeley mapped the brain circuit linking deep sleep to growth hormone. Now we know why poor sleep slows recovery — and what it means for shift workers, aging adults, and insomnia. Medical Daily · Jul 6
5 Lessons From Tagore on Creativity, Solitude, and Modern Wisdom India Forgot to Teach Solitude Is Not Wasted TimeTagore spent years at Santiniketan deliberately removing himself from Calcutta's social machinery. He wrote in "Gitanjali" of the mind that finds its own company sufficient, not as a spiritual boast, but as a practical observation about where real thinking happens. The lesson most Indians absorb growing… Times Life · Jul 6
5 Indian Cities Where Food Alone Is Worth the Travel: Eating Your Way Across India Kolkata: The City That Feeds You Before You AskKolkata does not wait for you to find food. It finds you. Step off a train at Howrah and within three minutes someone is selling you a kathi roll so good that the Nizam's restaurant on Park Street, which invented it, still… Times Life · Jul 6
Visa’s Open USD Push Puts Circle’s Stablecoin Moat Under Pressure A 140-member consortium launched Open USD with shared-yield architecture, pressuring Circle's reserve-based model while benefiting Visa and other legacy payment networks. MarketBeat · Jul 5
Why do some villages in China build circular homes: The remarkable story behind Fujian Tulou earthen fortresses Seen from above, they resemble giant doughnuts carved into the landscape. From ground level, they look more like medieval fortresses than family homes. Their towering earthen walls, narrow entranceways and vast wooden interiors seem designed for defence rather than domestic life. Yet behind these imposing façades lies one of China's… The Times of India · Jul 5
Gorillas Share More With Humans Than DNA: The Behaviors Science Keeps Underestimating The Number That Explains Almost NothingGorillas and humans share 98.3% of their DNA. That figure comes from genome sequencing published in Nature in 2012, which also found that roughly 30% of the gorilla genome is actually closer to humans or chimpanzees than chimps and humans are to each other. The… Times Life · Jul 5
Ramana Maharshi Was Right: Your Mind Is the Only Problem You Will Ever Have to Solve The Question He Kept Asking BackPeople came to Ramana Maharshi at Tiruvannamalai with every kind of suffering. A man whose business had collapsed. A woman whose child had died. A philosopher with seventeen arguments about consciousness. Maharshi listened to all of them, and then he asked the same thing: "Who… Times Life · Jul 5
Why the Indian Saas and Bahu Are Structurally Set Up to Fail Each Other in Marriage The house was never designed for both of themWhen a woman marries into an Indian family, she is handed a role that was already occupied. The mother-in-law built the household, calibrated its rhythms, and held its emotional centre for decades. The daughter-in-law arrives and is expected, simultaneously, to integrate completely… Times Life · Jul 5
Why the Deccan Odyssey Train Route Through Maharashtra Deserves to Be on Your Booking List The Route Nobody PicksSearch "luxury train India" and the Rajasthan Palace on Wheels fills every result. The Deccan Odyssey exists in the same category, same white-glove service, same cabin grade, same dining car, but its Maharashtra-focused route, officially called the Jewels of the Deccan, runs with a fraction of the… Times Life · Jul 5
5 Nutrient Deficiencies in Men That Quietly Drain Testosterone, Mood, and Performance Zinc and testosterone: the direct line most men ignoreZinc is one of the few nutrients with a direct, documented relationship to testosterone synthesis. A 1996 study published in Nutrition (Prasad et al.) found that zinc restriction in healthy men caused testosterone levels to fall by nearly 75% over 20 weeks,… Times Life · Jul 5
How Chronic Stress Quietly Destroys Male Fertility, Testosterone, and Sperm Health The Cortisol-Testosterone Trade-off Nobody ExplainsWhen the body perceives sustained threat, a deadline that never ends, financial pressure, fractured sleep, it prioritises cortisol production above almost everything else. Cortisol and testosterone are both synthesised from the same precursor: cholesterol. Under chronic stress, the body effectively redirects that raw material toward cortisol… Times Life · Jul 4
China's warning reveals what really happened at Modi-Takaichi summit India and Japan's recent summit in Delhi has sparked concern in Beijing. Agreements on defense, critical minerals, and AI signal a strategic shift, prompting China to caution against "exclusive small groupings." The summit's focus on economic security, diversified supply chains, and defense co-development, particularly the UNICORN project, directly challenges China's… The Economic Times · Jul 3
Times Life · Jul 3 How the Skincare Industry Sells You More Products Than You Need and How to Push Back The Ten-Step Routine Was Never About Your SkinThe average Indian woman in her twenties owns more skincare products than she will finish in two years. That is not a coincidence. The ten-step routine, popularised by Korean beauty marketing and amplified by Indian influencers, was never a dermatological recommendation. It was…
The Economic Times · Jul 2 Valar nuclear startup partners with Nvidia on data center aiming to conserve water California-based Valar announced the partnership in Utah at the site of its small nuclear plant called a microreactor. It also ran a demonstration powering Nvidia's Blackwell, its latest AI chip architecture for data centers. It was the first time a small reactor powered a data center, the companies said.
The Economic Times · Jul 1 Tel Aviv should build broader alliance from India to US via West Asia: Top Israeli defence official Israel's top defence official proposed a new regional security architecture, advocating for a broad alliance from India to the US, encompassing West Asia and Europe. This initiative, he stated, is crucial given Iran's military buildup and aims to forge shared interests. A new US-Israel security pact, grounded in mutual interests,…
Newslaundry · Jul 1 When research money is scarce, should it fund cow urine papers? Cow urine can fight off the Chikungunya virus.
Times Life · Jul 1 Why Parrots Can Mimic Human Speech So Perfectly but Cannot Understand Language Like We Do The organ that makes it possibleParrots are the only birds whose vocal anatomy allows them to approximate human consonants and vowels with any real precision. The key is the syrinx, the avian equivalent of a larynx, located at the base of the trachea where it forks into the two bronchi.…
MarketBeat · Jun 30 Overclocking Qualcomm: Rewiring the AI Compute Market After a 20%-plus drawdown, QCOM is pursuing $15 billion in data center revenue by fiscal 2029, backed by Meta and Microsoft deployments of its Dragonfly C1000 server CPU.
Digital Camera World · Jun 30 "The most compelling photography does not simply record, it constructs" – award-winning images revealed from world-renowned professional photo competition The winning images from the prestigious Hasselblad Masters 2025 showcase the very best in contemporary photography, spanning wildlife, architecture, portraiture and more
TechRadar · Jun 29 IBM unveils new record-breaking chip with 100 billion transistors in less than 1 nanometer footprint — new NanoStack design is like "a 100-storey skyscraper" packed with highly efficient processing power IBM unveiled a 0.7 nm NanoStack chip carrying 100 billion transistors through an ambitious three-dimensional architecture design.
France 24 · Jun 29 'Architecture, city design a front line of defence' against heatwaves, expert says FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney discusses cooling solutions in urban environments with Ronita Bardhan, Professor of Sustainable Built Environment and Health at the University of Cambridge. She says that "ultimately architecture and city design is becoming more of a public health infrastructure front line of defence in this warming world". The…
Bored Panda · Jun 29 66 Architecture And Design Fails That Could Have Been Avoided With Five Minutes Of Actual Thinking Stairs that lead nowhere, public restroom doors that expose their occupants, and toilets in the kitchen. Some of these architectural and interior design fails are not only ridiculously bad but also dangerous. Check out these unfortunate designs that made the Internet laugh and chuckle at the thought of what the…
Tom’s Hardware · Jun 28 China’s Loongson launches homegrown 16-core server CPU built on LoongArch architecture — 40W chip with DDR4 ECC and 32 PCIe lanes targets cheap SMB file, database, and web servers Loongson has announced the 3C3000, a 16-core LoongArch server CPU with DDR4 ECC, 32 PCIe lanes, 40W typical power, and performance claimed to match the earlier 3C5000.