From boxing to soccer to archery, robots showed off their athletic skills at the first International Humanoid Olympiad held at the birthplace of the Olympic Games in Greece. Forget the human Olympics, ...

With 22 different categories from engineering, chemistry and forensics to medical science, children from the fifth and sixth grades at White Oaks Elementary in Burke worked hard to make it all the way ...

A sharp divide has emerged within India’s scientific community after the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) decided to ban Israel from the event starting in 2026. The Olympiad ...

What began in 1984 as a small computer literacy program soon became national policy, reshaping classrooms and workplaces through the 1990s and 2000s. By the time ICT at Schools was launched in 2004, ...

When the Hebrew Language Olympiad presents the awards to its 2025 winners in Jerusalem on Friday, one unlikely champ will accept his via a video call from Egypt. Mahmoud, who is Muslim, joined the ...

Planning and fund-raising for the “Cultural Olympiad,” the arts programming that is part of the 2028 games, should have been well underway by now, several experts say. By Robin Pogrebin Paris, a city ...

A USNCO coach speaks to a room of students who are studying for their local exam. Credit: Courtesy of Margaret Thatcher The US National Chemistry Olympiad (USNCO) is seeking coaches to help prepare ...

IIT Kanpur’s decision to admit students through the Olympiad route highlights how premier institute. IIT Kanpur has enroled five students in its BTech and BS programmes for the 2025-26 session via the ...

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We spoke to two students on the IOAA 2025 Indian team -- Banibrata Majee (l) and Akshat Srivastava (r) – to understand what it takes to win big at the Astronomy Olympiad. India lit up the stage at the ...

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IIT Kanpur has admitted five students into its BTech and BS programmes for the 2025–26 academic year through the Olympiad route, bypassing the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2025. All five ...