Why does lead behave so differently from every other atomic nucleus when struck by electrons? A team of physicists at ...

While delivering his victory speech on Tuesday night, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani made a statement about the government's role in citizens' lives, sparking concern from critics online.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is the Gregory and Ania Coffey Professor of Economics at Harvard University and formerly First ...

In 2024, Netflix released a television series called ‘3 Body Problem,’ which takes its name from a real mathematical puzzle that has stumped scientists and astronomers for centuries. The problem is ...

The COVID-19 pandemic, refugee crises, climate change—these global problems have exposed the need for public goods that are likewise global. What are public goods, and how can they be supplied ...

According to the 2022 Census of Agriculture, 437,310 farming operations used hired labor in that year, a nearly 15 percent decline from the number of farms using such workers in 2017. The number of ...

"Insanity is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule." – Friedrich Nietzsche Something feels profoundly wrong with our world, doesn't it? That constant knot ...