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The "Electric Dreams" exhibition at the Tate illuminates our changing relationship with the virtual world ...

A man asks for money outside the cathedral in Salta, Argentina. Credit: Alamy The defining image of Javier Milei’s rapid rise to power in Argentina was his favourite campaign stunt: waving a chainsaw ...

A new study adds to the evidence that obesity isn't about will power Most people who are overweight want to lose it. But even when they do, it often creeps back. New research may explain why. The ...

GJ 504 b. Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger Ammonia (NH3) is a common chemical here on Earth. It’s in fertiliser, refrigerator coolant and even some biological waste – if ...

Mansour Omari smuggled out the names of Assad regime prisoners scribbled onto scraps of cloth. Portrait by Richard Ansett Mansour Omari is a Syrian human rights defender, journalist and torture ...

Surging demand for lithium is driven by electric vehicle adoption and net-zero pledges. Image credit: Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz / CC 4.0 As the world pivots toward decarbonisation, interest in lithium ...

Democracy observers were dismayed in January when Meta – owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads – announced that it would be ditching its fact-checking system. The company had previously ...

My country, the United States, is quite religious, making it an outlier within the developed world. Generally, in nations where wealth and prosperity increase, piety decreases, but we Americans ...