Turning street lights off at midnight could save money, energy and help nocturnal ecosystems thrive.
People with obesity earn less and have a harder time finding work.
Victorian Britain laid the foundations for today’s overconsumptive meat industry. Might it also show us a way out?
The Spanish artist was a master self-publicist and one of the most important thinkers in 20th-century art.
Monopolies are bad for innovation and dismantling them would help the US economy compete.
An ethicist on why fixing algorithms may not be the best response to algorithmic bias.
The Versailles Conference set up the ill-fated League of Nations. We must not allow the United Nations to suffer the same fate.
The doomed Scottish monarch has divided opinion ever since the days when she was forced off the throne.
Wild boars are being scapegoated for an epidemic of African swine flu that threatens the pork industry.
Tips from global conflict resolution on how MPs can find a way to agree on a Brexit deal.
The battle for military power intensifies as Britain faces mounting threats alongside economic uncertainty.
Rumours that West Ham’s Marko Arnautovic is heading to China in a multi-million pound deal are a classic symptom of the transfer window.
Urban planning should be long-term and visionary, but the public must have a say, too – that’s where urban rooms come in.
The Labour leader insists he wants ‘no-deal Brexit’ off the table before sitting down with the prime minister. But that’s not the full picture.
Achieving a genuine sense of belonging in a new country takes a lot more than a naturalisation certificate.
As Brexit heads towards breaking point, the British people need to define what they think is in the national interest.
Stories about mafias are often driven by ethnic stereotypes.
A new collider at CERN could push particle physics deep into an unexplored microscopic realm.
Hazardous professions including agriculture and heavy engineering are already having to find ways to adapt.
Young people can make big savings living with their parents, but it throws up some thorny issues.
We asked an economist what to make of Luxembourg’s plan for free trains and buses.
Norway is deeply divided over the question of its relationship with the EU.
There’s a lack of scientific evidence supporting claims that digital detoxes actually have any benefit to us.
Retiring from a career in elite sports can be stressful in a number of ways, something the former tennis world number one understands very well.
The backlash against the Gillette ad shows how painfully little distance we as a society have covered since the #MeToo movement.