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With the collapse of the last major US–Russia treaty, a new phase of nuclear competition is emerging—faster, broader, and harder to control. On February 5, 2026, the New START Treaty expired—quietly, but with global consequences. For the first time in over half a century, there are no legally binding limits on the world’s two largest … Read more
From 12 to 14 December 2025, Islamabad witnessed a vibrant and encouraging celebration of Pakistan’s olive industry at the National Olive Festival. The three day event attracted olive growers, farmers, producers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and visitors from across the country. The festival was jointly organized by the Pak Olive Project under the Ministry of National Food … Read more
Do Kwon, the co-founder of Terraform Labs and the public face of one of crypto’s most devastating failures, has been sentenced to 15 years in a US federal prison for fraud tied to the 2022 collapse of the Terra ecosystem, a meltdown that wiped out an estimated $40 billion in value and shook confidence across … Read more
USTC Repeg: Plan, Psychology & Uniswap Strategy (Ethereum) If you’ve watched USTC for a while, you know the math is only half the story. The other half is psychology -how crowds behave when a clear narrative and a practical “what to do right now” converge. This article has two goals. First, it lays out a … Read more
A new study has revealed something both surprising and alarming: the food people grow near small gold mining sites in Africa is being contaminated — not through the soil as scientists long believed, but directly from the air. This discovery, published in the journal Biogeosciences by the European Geosciences Union (EGU), shows that mercury — … Read more
On 8 October 2025 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University), Richard Robson (University of Melbourne) and Omar M. Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley). The trio was honoured “for the development of metal–organic frameworks” (MOFs) — a family of crystalline, porous materials that chemists today … Read more
The Announcement The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their pioneering discoveries that explain how the immune system learns to restrain itself — a process scientists call peripheral immune tolerance. The trio’s work uncovered the biological mechanisms that stop the immune … Read more
In a decision that underscores how fundamental physics can become the engine of new technologies, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.” Their … Read more
In a groundbreaking development, researchers at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Vienna have unveiled a universal quantum rewinding protocol capable of reversing the state of a quantum system with an arbitrarily high probability of success. This discovery, published in collaboration with the Austrian Academy of Sciences, could reshape our understanding … Read more
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered an exciting new member of Uranus’ family of satellites. A team of scientists led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has identified a previously unknown moon orbiting the ice giant, raising the total number of known Uranian moons to 29. The discovery was made on February 2, … Read more