Zimbabwe’s central bank wants people to use the ZiG, a gold-backed local currency launched in April 2024, alongside the US ...

Many fact-checkers are moving away from declaring claims as true or false, and trying to help people judge information for ...

In South Africa, a remote coastal community has used counter-maps to document wetlands and sacred sites, showing what mining ...

A children’s literature author explains how some of her favorite Halloween-themed children’s books can help children prepare ...

A cybersecurity researcher explains how a flaw in widespread software makes millions of websites vulnerable to hackers – and ...

Birth involves emissions from travel, pain relief and disposable products, but system-level changes can reduce them without ...

In August, the UN Security Council voted to end the decades-long peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. Blue helmets will leave by ...

Clayface has some memorable moments, but can’t quite reach the brilliance of the body-horror classic, The Substance.

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews, often called Haredim, make up a small but growing percentage of Israel’s population. Still, their ...

Hamlet is famously a tragedy of self-doubt, and Elsinore thus lifts the conventional biopic contrast of public triumph with private tragedy by demonstrating the potential of drama to both express and ...

Most of what we knew about early modern humans has been turned upside down in the past two decades – and many more questions ...