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Photo: Instagram/Institut auf dem Rosenberg For the children of kings, billionaires and some of the world’s most powerful families, school can be a very different experience. Their education may take place beside Lake Geneva, their winter months may be spent in the Swiss Alps, and their classmates may include heirs to fortunes and members of royal families from across the world. But the appeal of Switzerland’s most exclusive boarding schools goes beyond beautiful campuses and luxury. For generations, these institutions have offered wealthy families a combination of international education, independence, security, and something that money alone cannot easily buy: access…

Dhruv Jurel’s unbeaten 115 headlines rain-hit Day 2. (ANI Photo) Dhruv Jurel produced a composed unbeaten century as India strengthened their grip on the second Test against Sri Lanka, declaring their first innings at 503/9 before reducing the hosts to 8/2 at the close of a rain-interrupted second day. Jurel remained unbeaten on 115, his second Test century, as India posted a daunting total. Sri Lanka were left with a mountain to climb after losing two wickets in just three overs, ending the day 495 runs behind with eight wickets in hand.India resumed Day 2 at 300/5 and initially suffered…

August may look like a busy month in a garden, meadow or city park, but for honeybees, late summer can be surprisingly difficult. New research from the University of Sussex has found that honeybees expend more effort and gain less energy while collecting nectar in late July and August than during much of spring. The study, published in Functional Ecology, used direct observations of bee movements and flower visits in green spaces around Brighton and Edinburgh. As reported by Phys.org, researchers believe the seasonal “nectar gap” is linked to fewer flowers blooming and stronger competition among pollinators. The findings offer…

IIT Madras researchers build massive open alloy database using AI to speed up materials innovation Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) have developed an Artificial Intelligence platform to accelerate the discovery of sustainable, high-performance metallic alloys for applications including electric vehicles, aerospace, renewable energy and marine infrastructure.The researchers have built one of the world’s largest publicly available databases of advanced metallic alloys by using Large Language Models (LLMs) to extract and organise information from more than 10,000 scientific research papers. The databases and supporting software are available through the Alloy Tattvasar platform and GitHub for researchers,…

From Raaz to the Sahyadris – Malini Sharma traded Bollywood for farming and a peaceful farmstay. Remember Malini Sharma, who appeared in Vikram Bhatt’s Raaz in 2002 alongside Bipasha Basu and Dino Morea? At a time when her career appeared to be gaining momentum, Malini chose to step away from the film industry.Her decision meant that she gradually disappeared from the public eye. But while Bollywood audiences stopped seeing her on screen, Malini was busy building an entirely different life.Today, she is associated with The Slow Local and lives on a farm in the Sahyadri Hills, where she has embraced…

A stainless steel bottle may look clean on the outside but still develop an unpleasant odour inside. The smell comes from what gets left behind in the lid, threads, seal, or bottom of the bottle. A little tea or coffee residue can remain in the bottle. Even plain water can become a problem if the bottle is washed and then closed while it is still damp. The narrow shape makes some areas difficult to reach with a sponge. A quick rinse may leave those spots untouched.Keeping a bottle odourless is not just about deep cleaning it now and then. It…

Bhubaneswar: For an Indian athletics coach, moving abroad to take charge of a national team is still relatively uncommon. For Mohamed Azarudeen, however, the decision to join Malaysia as the head coach for middle- and long-distance running was less about leaving India and more about looking for a new challenge.The 32-year-old from Ooty began coaching at the age of 21, working primarily with middle- and long-distance runners. Among the athletes he has trained is Sreekiran Nandakumar, the first Indian 800m runner to qualify for the Youth Olympics.But Azarudeen felt his opportunities had become limited after spending the past few years…

For his project, Kang trained AI models to detect patterns associated with neurodevelopmental disorders from a large public dataset of retinal images. Instead of one approach, he used several techniques to improve the performance of the models. What if a simple picture of the eye could help doctors diagnose neurodevelopmental conditions earlier? For 17-year-old Edward Kang of Hackensack, New Jersey, that question became the foundation for an ambitious science project that combines neuroscience, artificial intelligence and cell biology. His research, RetinaMind: Novel In Silico and In Vitro Retinal Models of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, investigated the potential for retinal images to provide…

UAE student Adam Ahmed wins gold for AI education platform and builds open-source coding tool. Why do some students avoid homework but spend hours playing video games?That question led 13-year-old Adam Ahmed, a Year 10 student from Sharjah in the UAE, to build an AI-powered education platform that would go on to receive international recognition. It also set him on a second path: creating a free, open-source tool designed to help multiple AI coding agents work together without duplicating or overwriting each other’s work.As reported by UAE Startup Story, Adam’s journey began with an experimental project called FutureEduAI, which later…

Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna’s wedding day was straight out of a Bollywood film. There was a time when Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna apparently made a rather unusual deal. If Twinkle’s film Mela, starring Aamir Khan, failed at the box office, she would marry Akshay without putting it off any longer.The film did not make the impact expected, and eventually, Twinkle and Akshay decided to take the plunge. But even their wedding day unfolded like a scene straight out of a film.Akshay Kumar was shooting just hours before his weddingWhile most grooms would be busy preparing for one of…