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The long winter Olympic journey from Chamonix in 1924 to PyeongChang in 2018.
Facial recognition software isn’t ready for face-in-a-crowd applications. Specialist police officers are far superior at spotting criminals.
Policymakers need to stop focusing on schools to solve the obesity crisis.
Martin Schulz could face a major backlash from his own party after breaking his promise not to enter government with Angela Merkel’s CDU again.
When it was discovered that citrus fruits could be used to treat scurvy, suddenly Sicilian lemons were very valuable. Enter the mafia.
Ants produce their own antimicrobial chemicals to fight bacteria.
No country manages to balance sustainability with meeting basic human needs – but Vietnam comes closest.
It’s the housing sector that could do most for winter health.
There are 20 US cities bidding to host Amazon’s HQ2 – but the winner will have its work cut out to make the most of the prize.
From damaging the environment to contaminating the solar system, SpaceX’s successful launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket also poses risks.
Not to be outdone by France, China and North Korea, Donald Trump has ordered his military to put on a world-class show in the nation’s capital.
As the American colonists famously said: ‘No taxation without representation.’
ATMs, self-scan checkouts, automated calls, digital therapists … no wonder we’re all lonely.
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The audio version of a long read on stalling life expectancy in the UK.
It was the Seine’s rise and fall, in response to heavy rain, that inspired our current understanding of river systems.
A recent attack on migrants came ahead of Italian elections in March where migration is a key campaign issue.
A new approach to gathering data from football matches which uses cybernetics and AI could help coaches spot weak links in their teams.
Companies are compiling your smartphone data into shockingly intimate profiles that can be used against you.
Will YouTube’s new ad rules close down niche vlogs?
Snakes have survived millions of years by using their bodies in increasingly creative ways.
Meet the brawny bug with a concoction so caustic it’ll make a toad vomit.
A drying climate caused a mass extinction among plants, but paved the way for the ancestors of modern reptiles, mammals, and birds.
Ireland was quick to elect a woman member of parliament, but it’s been slow going thereafter.
The Dow Jones is on a rollercoaster. But don’t panic.