Context: This year's Booker Prize awarded to M. John Harrison's science-fiction novel The End of Everything reflects growing societal anxiety over Artificial Intelligence (AI), its influence on knowledge and its place in society.The novel explor...

Context: In September 2026, China unveiled a 10-year plan to reform its higher education system in response to AI-driven technological disruption, economic slowdown and worsening employment prospects.The reform aims to address the mismatch between gr...

Context: A Tokamak is a nuclear fusion device that uses powerful magnetic fields to confine superhot plasma inside a ring-shaped vacuum chamber, enabling fusion reactions.It is one of the most extensively researched approaches to achieving controlled...

Context: The Centre’s ₹1.27 lakh crore Semicon 2.0 programme seeks to strengthen India’s semiconductor ecosystem through a three-part approach: developing strategic semiconductor technologies, creating commercially viable chips, and ensuring the...

Context: China and the US are increasingly focused on integrating scientific research with industrial production, using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accelerate the transition from discovery → technology → manufacturing → economic and geopolit...

Context: Rapid replacement of computers, servers, networking equipment and storage devices is generating large volumes of electronic waste (e-waste).E-waste contains valuable materials such as copper, aluminium, gold, silver, palladium and critical m...