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What Will It Take for Home Buyers to Start Asking for a Disaster Discount?
The real costs of owning a house in neighborhoods that are vulnerable to flooding and wildfires are becoming clearer.
Astronomy
Now Wanted in Silicon Valley: Ho-Hum Businesses With Thin Profit Margins
Venture-capital firms are bringing AI and dealmaking to accounting, property management and other unglamorous fields.
Business
Artificial Intelligence
In China, a Cat-and-Mouse Game to Rein In Crypto
Recent court cases reveal how middlemen are facilitating a booming trade, eluding a crackdown.
Economics
One House, Three Owners: The Ballooning Cost of the American Dream
The story of home affordability in the U.S. told from a single front porch.
Trump Adds Fuel to Claims That Big Banks Discriminate Against Conservatives
The president has told Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase to stop cutting conservatives off from doing business.
Business
Finance
Why don’t more countries import their electricity?
The economics make sense, but the geopolitics are nerve-racking
Economics
Politics
Trump unmasks American selfishness, say cynics
But sceptics are wrong to call America First business as usual
Business
SpaceX Starship test fails after Texas launch
Officials at Elon Musk's company said the upper stage was lost, minutes after it launched.
Business
Astronomy
Inside the Houthis’ moneymaking machine
After a ceasefire in Gaza, they may continue their Red Sea racket
Rocket launch challenges Elon Musk's space dominance
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's space company blasts its first rocket into orbit in a challenge to Elon Musk.
Space & Astronomy
Business
Marco Rubio will find China is hard to beat in Latin America
China buys lithium, copper and bull semen, and doesn’t export its ideology
Most Anticipated: The Great Winter 2025 Preview
It’s cold, it’s grey, its bleak—but winter, at the very least, brings with it a glut of anticipation-inducing books. Here you’ll find nearly 100 titles...
Technology
Biology
Press release - MEPs to discuss European and global security with NATO Secretary General Rutte
On Monday, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will make his first official visit to the European Parliament since taking office on 1 October 2024.Committee on...
World News
European Affairs
Donald Trump has a strong foreign-policy hand, but could blow it
Bullying foreigners can be sadly effective, but also a dangerous distraction
Policy
World News
Women warriors and the war on woke
Trump’s Pentagon pick wants women off the battlefield
Young people are having less fun
Youthful excess continues to decline
World News
Why people over the age of 55 are the new problem generation
Baby-boomers are keeping their bad habits into retirement
Biology
The A to Z of international relations
Geopolitics terms, from “Abraham accords” to “zero-sum game”, explained in plain English
World News
Politics
The A to Z of military terms
Modern warfare, from “ambush” to “zapad”, explained to you in plain English
Future of space travel: Could robots really replace human astronauts?
Advances in technology raise questions about the need to send people to space - and the risks and cost
Technology
Space & Astronomy
Why warriors should welcome laws of war
Lessons from a 17th-century thinker on preventing crimes against humanity
Policy
Is the age of American air superiority coming to an end?
The growing effectiveness of air-defence systems could blunt the West’s most powerful weapons
Energy
Interview — International cooperation to strengthen biodiversity
Frank Wugt Larsen, EEA expert on biodiversity knowledge and networks, is part of the European Union delegation at the plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform...
European Affairs
Environment