On January 17 1803, a young man named George Forster was hanged for murder at Newgate prison in London. After his execution, as often happened, his body was carried ceremoniously across the city to ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

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Developed by IIT Delhi researchers in collaboration with scientists from Denmark and Germany, AILA moves beyond the ...

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