Steven Spielberg’s upcoming potential hit is on its way and has left fans anticipating its imminent release, after the sci-fiction adventure film shared its extended spot on Friday. Based on its namesake novel by Ernest Cline, the film steps into the futuristic year of 2045 where the world is in …

DUABI: Quetta Gladiators all-rounder Shane Watson hasn’t yet decided whether he will travel to Pakistan for the playoffs of the Pakistan Super League. Watson is the leading run-getter this season, and Gladiators are second in a tight five-way race for a spot in the final four. “We still have a …

DUBAI: Quetta Gladiators recorded the biggest win in the Pakistan Super League history when they defeated Karachi Kings by 67 runs in the 19th match at Dubai International Stadium here on Thursday night. Courtesy a scintillating knock of 90 runs (58 balls) by opener Shane Watson assisted by Kevin Pieterson’s …

DUBAI: Dazzling Shaheen Shah Afridi clinched five scalps for just four runs as Lahore Qalandars scored their first victory of the Pakistan Super League III by beating Multan Sultans by six wickets at Dubai International Stadium here on Friday. Chasing a modest target of 115, Lahore raced home in the …

A masterful century by Jonny Bairstow complemented an exceptional bowling spell as England cruised to a seven-wicket victory over New Zealand to claim the one-day international series 3-2 in Christchurch on Saturday. Bairstow’s heroics with the bat — 104 off 60 deliveries — backed by 61 from fellow opener Alex …

DUBAI: Islamabad United defeated Peshawar Zalmi by 26 in the 21st Twenty20 match of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2018 here at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Friday. Having been sent into bat, Islamabad United set a daunting target of 183 for Peshawar Zalmi, playing an outclass cricket to …

Lenses are no longer necessary for some microscopes, according to Rice University engineers developing FlatScope, a thin fluorescent microscope whose abilities promise to surpass those of old-school devices. A paper in Science Advances by Rice engineers Ashok Veeraraghavan, Jacob Robinson, Richard Baraniuk and their labs describes a wide-field microscope thinner …

A team from EPFL and NCCR Marvel has identified more than 1,000 materials with a particularly interesting 2D structure. Their research, which made the cover page of Nature Nanotechnology, paves the way for groundbreaking technological applications. 2D materials, which consist of a few layers of atoms, may well be the …

Lithium-ion batteries are widely used in home electronics and are now being used to power electric vehicles and store energy for the power grid. But their limited number of recharge cycles and tendency to degrade in capacity over their lifetime have spurred a great deal of research into improving the …

Consider a number of the major criticisms leveled in the wake of the Trudeau government’s third budget and a common theme emerges. In their oft-touted effort to “help the middle class and those who aspire to join it,” the Liberals appear to be constrained by an unwavering commitment, whether grounded …