The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to get them back for decades. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam The ...

A new review from the University of Sharjah suggests that mouthwash made with garlic extract may fight germs as effectively as chlorhexidine, a widely used antiseptic in dental care. Chlorhexidine, a ...

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Sweden uses common salt to de-ice its roads in winter, contrary to online posts that say it uses a new beet extract salt, the country’s Transport Administration has said. Posts shared on social media, ...

Seventeen elements of the periodic table have taken on outsize importance because of their use in smartphones, electric vehicles, medical devices, and other technologies. They’re valued for their ...

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Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

Microsoft has introduced an option to extract text from images with Snipping Tool. The feature will be available to all soon. The tool now ships with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology ...

What if you could simplify the complexities of natural language processing (NLP) without sacrificing accuracy or efficiency? For years, developers and researchers have wrestled with the steep learning ...

Forward-looking: A team of Australian researchers has unveiled a breakthrough method for extracting gold that could dramatically reduce the environmental and health hazards long associated with mining ...

Have you ever stared at a massive spreadsheet, overwhelmed by the chaos of mixed data—names, IDs, codes—all crammed into single cells? It’s a common frustration for anyone managing large datasets in ...