As a new exhibition opens in Helsinki, Cath Pound explores our complicated relationship with masterpieces. The reason works of art become iconic are many and varied, from the vagaries of taste to museum acquisition policies and competition between collectors. For centuries, artists were obliged to learn by copying work from an established canon and, although […]
Read MoreIt’s thought that people began cooking as early as a million years agoFrom creating toxic chemicals to an increased risk of lung cancer, the latest evidence suggests that some types of cooking come with health risks. What can be done to avoid them? “The whole reason that we evolved as humans is because we started […]
Read MoreLondon Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate is suing Netflix, among others, over its upcoming film “Enola Holmes” — arguing that the show’s depiction of Sherlock Holmes as kind, caring and respectful of women is a violation of the author’s copyright. The film, based on a series of novels by Nancy Springer and set for release on […]
Read MoreFrom Motown and “The Cosby Show” to hip-hop and “Black Panther,” America has long consumed Black culture — even as our country’s systemic racism sent a very different message but never quite like this.In the weeks since the recent Black Lives Matter protests, Black-themed cultural media have been having a moment. Books, music, movies, TV […]
Read MoreBy Bilal Thaheem Taxila: Taxila Heavy Mechanical Complex (HMC) built in 1971 and Heavy Foundry & Forge (HFF) in 1977 with the financial and technical assistance of China at Taxila about 30 km north of the capital city is a symbol of ‘Pak-China Friendship’. The HMC once a subsidiary of State Engineering Corporation (SEC) is […]
Read MoreBeijing: China’s shipment of wearable devices shrank in the first quarter of the year, an industry report showed. Makers of wearable devices in the country shipped 17.62 million units in Q1, down 11.3 percent year on year, according to global market intelligence firm International Data Corporation (IDC). Shipment of basic wearables, which do not support […]
Read MoreBy Raiq Qureshi Islamabad: Pakistan in general and Punjab in particular has a rich history of cultural heritage — the footprints of arts and architectures of Mughals, British and Sikhs are still visible in most parts of the province narrating tales of the bygone days. The walled city of Lahore speaks for almost every era […]
Read MoreIslamabad: The increasing trend of modern tunes is becoming a great threat to folk music with the passage of time. According to musicians, with the rapidly moving world venturing into the vistas of ultramodern civilization, the folk music is dying down as senseless with empty lyrics and music, rather the rock and pop music was […]
Read MoreIslamabad: National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa) has planned to initiate a “Cuisine Museum” to introduce famous traditional food of all cities and areas of the country at one place adding a new attraction for food lovers of federal capitals and foreign guest to satisfy their taste buds with traditional appetite. Executive […]
Read MoreIslamabad: ”ArtAid” will put art works for online auction both for funds as well as barter for supplies to provide much needed assistance for the affected low income families in the testing time. Renowned artist Jamal Shah said “ArtAid” was launched in 2005 as a platform to support the earthquake affected people and held the […]
Read MoreBy Mehwish Azam Islamabad: Amid all the disarray caused by novel coronavirus (Covid-19), capital hiking trails of Margala Hills National Park are providing a therapeutic activity to the residents of Islamabad who have been confined to their homes for several weeks due to lockdown. Soon after the Islamabad administration decided to reopen hiking trails with […]
Read MoreBy Raiq Qureshi Islamabad: Golra Sharif Railway Museum, also known as Pakistan Railways Heritage Museum, located near Sector E-11 of the federal capital of Islamabad, is the site of a venerated railway museum housing relics and memorabilia associated with railways dating back to the days of British Raj. The railways station with its museum is […]
Read MoreBy Naveel Ahmed Islamabad: As a part of its plans to promote religious tourism in Pakistan, the government of province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has set up a Buddhist trail to attract the followers of Buddhism and monks from across the world. “A Buddhist trail has been developed in the province to facilitate the monks and […]
Read MoreBy Erfan Khan Islamabad: The Monsoon waves have started penetrating into the country’s horizons in the month of July and soon the moisture laden air will grip most of the country including the twin cities, thus creating an ideal atmosphere for seasonal plantation. Myriad varieties of fruits and vegetables can be sown during the season, […]
Read MoreBy Gary Hixjun The remote work challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the aging and insufficient infrastructure that has long powered much of the federal government. Aside from the widely discussed latency and security issues the current situation has presented, running on dated systems also requires more administration and maintenance, increasing the burden on […]
Read MoreBeijing: Chinese authorities have decided to further beef up intellectual property rights (IPR) assistance, with focuses on the assistance to small firms and companies in exhibition and e-commerce sectors. More will be done to help micro, small and medium-sized enterprises to safeguard their legal rights, and IPR assistance will also go to exhibition, e-commerce and […]
Read MoreBeijing: China plans to launch its first Mars probe between July and August this year, aiming to complete orbiting, landing and roving in one mission, an expert said in a recent interview with the state broadcaster CCTV. After the launch via China’s largest carrier rocket Long March-5, the probe is expected to reach within the […]
Read MoreHangzhou: A total of 10 tombs dating back to the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.) have recently been unearthed in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province, according to the provincial cultural relics and archaeology institute. The tombs are located in Changxing County, and archaeologists found three coffins inside the biggest tomb among the group, measuring 4.7 meters […]
Read MoreSurrounding the sun is a vast atmosphere of solar particles, through which magnetic fields swarm, solar flares erupt, and gigantic columns of material rise, fall and jostle each other around. Now, using NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, scientists have found that this atmosphere, called the corona, is even larger than thought, extending out some 5 […]
Read MoreWhy do we become saucer-eyed from fear and squint from disgust? These near-opposite facial expressions are rooted in emotional responses that exploit how our eyes gather and focus light to detect an unknown threat, according to a study by a Cornell University neuroscientist. Our eyes widen in fear, boosting sensitivity and expanding our field of […]
Read MoreIt is generally well known that men have an overall shorter life expectancy compared to women. A recent study, led by Uppsala University researchers, shows a correlation between a loss of the Y chromosome in blood cells and both a shorter life span and higher mortality from cancer in other organs. Men have a shorter […]
Read MoreIn the New Mexico desert lies an allegedly secret Scientology installation that includes a huge message for extraterrestrials — a crop circle-type design that can only easily be seen from high above the ground. That’s among the allegations set forth by BBC Panorama reporter John Sweeney in a new book, “Church of Fear: Inside the […]
Read MoreResearchers at the University of Bonn have discovered a new signaling pathway to combat excess body weight. The number of overweight persons is greatly increasing worldwide — and as a result is the risk of suffering a heart attack, stroke, diabetes or Alzheimer’s disease. For this reason, many people dream of an efficient method for […]
Read MoreBy Wang Wen – Global Times During weekends, like many other Beijing residents, I often drive one hour to the mountain areas in Beijing’s suburbs. I would rent a home-stay where I can relax and experience a suburban life. It has been five months since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, and the number of […]
Read MoreChina’s top legislature reviewed a draft law on safeguarding national security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) of the People’s Republic of China, during the legislative session. This is a crucial step in establishing and improving the legal system and enforcement mechanisms for the HKSAR to safeguard national security. The legislation fully embodies […]
Read MorePlanets tend to cool as they get older, but Saturn is hotter than astrophysicists say it should be without some additional energy source. The unexplained heat has caused a two-billion-year discrepancy for computer models estimating Saturn’s age. “Models that correctly predict Jupiter to be 4.5 billion years old find Saturn to be only 2.5 billion […]
Read MoreBeijing: Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi called for a just and reasonable solution to the Palestine issue when delivering a written speech on Wednesday local time at the United Nations (UN) Security Council’s video conference over the matter. The Palestine issue has always been at the core of the Middle East issue […]
Read MoreAstronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia, along with data from other large radio telescopes, have discovered that our nearest galactic neighbors, the dwarf spheroidal galaxies, are devoid of star-forming gas, and that our Milky Way Galaxy is to blame. These new radio observations, which are the highest sensitivity […]
Read MoreOver one million people in sub-Saharan Africa will contract malaria this year because they live near a large dam, according to a new study which, for the first time, has correlated the location of large dams with the incidence of malaria and quantified impacts across the region. The study finds that construction of an expected […]
Read MoreWhen a star collapses forming a black hole, a space-time singularity is created wherein the laws of Physics no longer work. In 1965 Sir Roger Penrose presented a theorem where he associated that singularity with so-called ”trapped surfaces” that shrink over time. That hypothesis -one of the results of the general theory of relativity- is […]
Read MoreWhat does it mean to simulate the human brain? Why is it important to do so? And is it even possible to simulate the brain separately from the body it exists in? These questions are discussed in a new paper published in the scientific journal Neuron. Simulating the brain means modeling it on a computer. […]
Read MoreBy Wang Wen – Global Times When new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Beijing in the past weekend, I was attending a forum on the “Air Silk Road” in Zhengzhou, capital city of Central China’s Henan Province. I was quite nervous, frankly speaking, and I kept my face mask on in the meeting […]
Read MoreBeijing: The universal platform of the China-developed Wing Loong-1 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has been tested fit for facilitating space-air-ground emergency communication, according to its developer. The Wing Loong-1 universal platform has successfully passed a series of tests in an airfield in northwest China, said the state-owned plane maker Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC). […]
Read MoreBy Vladimir Putin – President of Russia 75 years have passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War. Several generations have grown up over the years. The political map of the planet has changed. The Soviet Union that claimed an epic, crushing victory over Nazism and saved the entire world is gone. Besides, the […]
Read MoreBy Li Qingqing – Global Times Amid China-India border disputes, some Indian experts suggested that India should “rethink” the one-China principle at a webinar on Friday. Some hawkish Indian experts, including former Indian deputy national security adviser Arvind Gupta, raised the idea that India should support the “democratic movement” in Hong Kong, increase India’s “economic […]
Read MoreBy Li Bijian The COVID-19 pandemic is a challenge for mankind and requires global cooperation to respond. With the development of the pandemic, many countries and regions are in great shortage of medical materials and equipment. As a responsible major country, China has been doing everything in its capacity to provide necessary support to the […]
Read MoreBy Wang Wen – Global Times In my office hangs an antique world map drawn in 1717, on which Antarctica, the Arctic Ocean, Alaska, and Hawaii are absent. The Mercator projection was already widely adopted in drawing maps with parallels and meridians back then and it facilitated navigation. Thanks to the development of map projection, […]
Read MoreBy Wang Wen – Global Times The other day, my son recommended me a piece of 8K music, which means music produced with a high-tech display resolution with superior clarity and depth. As I put on the headphones, it felt like I was surrounded by a full 360-degree wave cycle. This is not the first […]
Read MoreBy Wang Wen – Global Times I live in Wangjing, a quite internationalized area in Beijing. Many Fortune 500 companies are headquartered there, and 10 percent of the around 600,000 residents are expats. Every weekend, I take walks in Wangjing’s many parks to exercise and watch the changes in the city. There have been no […]
Read MoreBeijing: The ongoing military standoff between China and India could continue for a little longerdue to complexity of the situation, analysts said. The talks between the two countries’ senior military officers came at a time when China-India border tensions flared up after India recently illegally constructed defense facilities across the border into Chinese territory in […]
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