The J-1 visa was meant to be America’s soft-power handshake. A cultural exchange that allowed young people from around the world to live, work briefly, and absorb the idea of the US as a land of opportunity, fairness and learning. Over the years, that idea quietly thinned out. In its place emerged something colder: a […]
Vice President JD Vance’s bestselling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, has found itself at the centre of an unexpected and ironic criminal case after authorities revealed that a copy of the book was used to smuggle drugs into an Ohio prison. According to court documents, narcotics were sprayed onto the pages of the memoir and shipped to […]
Representative Image (AI-generated) A research team in California has used artificial intelligence to design viral genomes, which were later built and tested in a laboratory. Some of these AI-created viruses successfully infected bacteria, demonstrating that generative AI models can produce functional genetic material.Researchers at Stanford University and the Arc Institute in Palo Alto described the […]
