Doesn’t make sense to the lawyer who is trying to deport him

March 15, 2025
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A student at US’ Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil, who participated in last year’s pro-Palestinian protests on campus was arrested by immigration officials on Saturday. Trump said that Khalil’s arrest is “the first of many to come” of students “who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity”. This comes after Trump signed executive order in January, which cites a federal law authorizing the deportation of any foreign national.

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Some universities have the most retracted scientific articles

February 25, 2025
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A recent Nature report found that over the last decade, the proportion of published articles in a year that have been retracted has trebled. The report was provided with the data from three technology firms, as well as countries and journals associated with retracted articles. Over the years, the number of retracted articles by the firms is more than the Retraction Watch data set they build on.

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Cancer cells can be harmful to the immune system

January 24, 2025
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Researchers at US’ Washington University have used cancer-derived mitochondria to “reverse cancer-related cell death.” The mitochondria in cancerous tumors were less able to divide and more likely to commit cell’suicide’, the team showed in cellular models. In mice with cancer, cancerous TILs that had imbibed alien mitochondria showed signs of T cell exhaustion, the loss of cancer-killing potential.

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The schoolshootings were not real

January 9, 2025
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Dennis Torswats, the man who swatted a child’s phone in US’ Seattle last year, said that children should be taught what they don’t know. In his latest interview with Wired, Torswats said, “It’s taking money that would ordinarily be used for welfare checks to Jews and bankers…and it’s being spent on searching schools.” He added that he made the hoax calls partly for fame.

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The GOP stop-gap bill did not pass

December 20, 2024
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US-based NPR is asking students to record a podcast for a story on NPR’s ‘Morning Edition’ or ‘All Things Considered’, between three and eight minutes in length. The students will be interviewed by the NPR team. The entries should be original work by students. “Pre-recorded music cannot be used,” NPR said, adding that students can use live performances of public domain songs.

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Top performers stay the course in Australia’s research landscape

November 27, 2024
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Australia has fallen to 12th position in the 2019-2024 Nature Index ranking of the world’s top 100 research institutions. This comes after the government announced that it would no longer fund all Australian universities and colleges under a ‘University Accord’ scheme. The government also cut funding for public and private research by a total of AU$900 million between 2016-2019.

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Trump picks a leader for Education Department

November 20, 2024
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US President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated Linda McMahon to lead the Department of Education. She served as the head of US Small Business Administration during Trump’s first term in office and will be taking over as Secretary of Education. McMahon said she will fight tirelessly to expand ‘Choice’ to every state in America and empower parents to make the best education decisions for their families.

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