In an era dominated by institutional science and billion-dollar laboratories, an unlikely figure from Blackpool claimed to have created one of the most extraordinary materials ever seen. Maurice Ward, a British hairdresser with no formal scientific training, developed a heat-resistant substance in the 1970s and 80s that appeared to defy conventional limits. He called it…
New Delhi: The new decade-long working plan for Delhi’s forests focuses on reconnecting fragmented green spaces through overhead forests and underpasses to support wildlife movement and survival.The plan states that the primary challenge facing wildlife in the forested stretches of the capital is not poaching or hunting, but the increasing fragmentation of habitats caused by…
NEW DELHI: In a U-turn, the civil aviation ministry Thursday put on hold its directive for airlines to offer at least 60% seats free of charge. Under intense cost side pressure since the Iran war began, airlines had warned this move to curb ancillary revenue will lead to additional fare hikes.The aviation ministry had on…
Mumbai, April 2 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has ordered the removal of rappers Yo Yo Honey Singh and Badshah’s controversial song ‘Volume 1’ from all social media and music streaming platforms. The Delhi High Court has ordered the removal of rappers Yo Yo Honey Singh and Badshah‘s controversial song ‘Volume 1’ from all social…
Lee Zeldin is Trump’s first choice to replace Pam Bondi After Kristi Noem, it’s probably time for Pam Bondi to leave her highly prestigious role in the Donald Trump administration as the AG as Trump is seriously considering replacing Bondi because of dissatisfaction with how her department handled the Jeffrey Epstein Files case. Trump has…
Team TOI Plus Updated: Apr 02, 2026, 19:45 IST IST In recent days, Donald Trump has made little effort to conceal his irritation with Nato — or the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. But can a US president actually pull the country out of the world’s largest military alliance? Source link
A 7-month-old baby girl was fatally struck by a stray bullet in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon, sparking outrage and grief as chilling surveillance footage captured the moment her mother realised the tragedy.The infant, identified as Kaori Patterson-Moore, was in a stroller with her parents near the intersection of Humboldt and Moore Streets in Williamsburg when…
CHENNAI: As war continues to rage in West Asia, Shia, Sunni communities in Chennai came together to express solidarity with Iran. On March 27, representative of Iran’s supreme leader in India Abdul Majid Hakeem Ilahi was in Chennai to join the city’s Islamic community to pay tributes to late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Dr…
Demis Hassabis secretly attempted to launch a high-frequency trading hedge fund within DeepMind, aiming to rival Jim Simons’ Renaissance Technologies. Google, however, shut down the project. This endeavor was part of DeepMind’s broader, ultimately unsuccessful, efforts to gain independence from Google’s control, leading Hassabis to believe in influencing decisions from within. The team of ~20…
Apple is widely known to have been founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. But very few know that there was also a third co-founder who played a key role in its early days. That’s not the only lesser known fact. Ronald Wayne, who was brought in to act as the “adult in the room,”…