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The COP31 climate summit in Turkey has got off to a chaotic start and a familiar dispute over who should pay for tackling ...

We remember 19th-century captains of industry like Andrew Carnegie because they funded vast cultural institutions. Will the ...

Tom Fecht's photo, titled Lucifer's Vortex and part of the touring Storm exhibition from the Prix Pictet award, shows light ...

This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s ...

It was the type of question that Eric C. So had posed to his class for years. As a professor of behavioural economics at the ...

Using data from more than 800,000 people, researchers have tested a system that can identify those with obesity who would ...