Hi everyone! This is Lauly from Taipei. I hope 2025 has been kind to you so far. I am writing this week's newsletter having just finished attending my eighth year-end banquet hosted by Taiwanese ...

In the 20 years since “A Million Ways,” OK Go have used their music videos to stage silly, improbably precise viral happenings. The big one, of course, was “Here It Goes Again,” the one ...

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The U.S. Bureau of Industry & Security has removed three Indian entities, Indian Rare Earths, IGCAR, and BARC, from its restrictive list. This move aims to boost joint research and collaboration in ...

The breakthrough is a vital step in making errors within quantum systems less likely to occur, and, when they do, make them more easily detected and corrected — a key barrier to the development ...

Manchester City have made a breakthrough in transfer negotiations for Eintracht Frankfurt striker Omar Marmoush, paving the way for the forward to become their third signing of the January ...

A near 25-year-old association between Sanjiv Bajaj-led Bajaj Finserv and Munich-headquartered insurance giant Allianz SE is likely to be terminated by March this year. According to highly placed ...

Prof James Catto from the University of Sheffield described the findings as a "major breakthrough" in treating bladder cancer. The University of Sheffield led the trial, alongside Barts Cancer ...

In another breakthrough, Dr. Angela Jia recently treated a kidney cancer patient with a single treatment of adaptive radiosurgery, building on years of research by Dr. Lee Ponsky and the urology ...

Mediators gave Israel and Hamas a final draft of a deal on Jan 13, an official briefed on the negotiations said, after a midnight “breakthrough” in talks attended by envoys of both the ...