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Young people are abandoning Facebook and calls to delete profiles are growing over the alleged exploitation of data for political campaigns.
There are all sorts of ways of making a cricket ball swing, but Australia’s players chose an illegal one.
Wrecks like the recently discovered USS Juneau reveal much about combat on the oceans.
These professional entertainers are trained and paid to go round hospitals cheer up children with music and laughter.
The former president of Catalonia is in a German prison, awaiting possible extradition to Spain where he faces charges of rebellion.
Young people are poorer than older people in England and the wealth gap between the young and the old is on the rise.
This is what happens when we stop assuming audiences can’t handle female-led sci-fi films.
The apparent success of grammar schools is simply due to pupils coming from more advantaged social backgrounds and already having higher academic attainment at age 11.
Clouds can reveal a great deal about the world we live in. Here’s what happens when scientists find a whole new type.
A branch of AI research promises to deliver computers that evolve their own software but the tech industry has yet to catch on.
Christ can’t simply be seen as a religious figure when his life and teaching were so political.
Closing the loophole: why the UK government must clip Hezbollah’s ‘wings’.
An increasing list of rare diseases can now be treated with gene therapy. But we need to figure out a way to make them affordable.
We are already collaborating – the question is, how can we do it better?
Reportedly passed over for secretary of state because of his moustache, John Bolton has made it into Donald Trump’s administration at last.
Thousands of animals are used for heart drug tests each year – but research shows that in silico developments are more accurate.
Public disaffection in Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries betrays deep-seated tensions beneath the surface.
As Hitler showed in 1936, there’s nothing like a massive sporting spectacle to promote your regime.
America’s gun violence debate is at a fever pitch – but it’s part of a much deeper cultural reckoning.
China has made numerous signals that it does not want to start a trade war with the US.
Thousands of staff are employed by the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency. Their futures remain uncertain.
Multiple reports have convincingly demonstrated that agroecology is the most promising pathway to sustainable food systems on all continents. But governments aren’t doing enough to support it.
Slacktivism won’t cut it in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Plastics and microplastics in the marine environment are one of the great cause célèbre of our era. Here’s what we know and don’t know.