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US forces have seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast, a move Caracas has called an ‘act of piracy’.
Musician, mother, widow: this moving account of an extraordinarily creative life details the highs and lows of walking the earth as a woman.
Exotic animal cafes are marketed as harmless fun, but research findings suggest a more complex truth.
Health anxiety is real, common and costly – but healthcare has yet to catch up.
Farmers are struggling to adapt to climate change and its challenges, but new research has some helpful advice.
Less than 4% of young workers now belong to a union.
Black women often carry out work their colleagues don’t, such as promoting equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives.
There are currently 74 people serving whole-life sentences.
Though Netflix has always cultivated an image as television’s great disruptor, the company has persistently adopted, adapted and copied the conventions of legacy television.
Interbreeding across species lines is one way helpful genes can spread into a bird population.
The CDC website used to state, clearly and correctly, that the evidence shows no link between vaccines and the development of autism.
Gas was long thought to be essential as a backup for a clean energy grid. But enormous growth in grid-scale batteries has changed the game.
The seismic echoes of capsizing icebergs falling from Thwaites Glacier have been detected for the first time.
The answer lies in what’s known as the body’s ‘master clock’.
Puzzles are a hands-on way to explore simpler and complex mathematical relationships, for everyone from kids to calculus students.
A university president who’s a former federal judge looks at the rule of law and the Trump administration’s first year, concluding the president ‘simply lacks respect for our system of justice.’
Poo anxiety, bashful bowels, shy bowel syndrome: they’re all terms for what’s medically known as parcopresis.
Scientific misconduct can waste public funds and harm human health. But views differ about the best way to tackle it.
The world’s largest warship is now patrolling the Caribbean north of Venezuela. It carries 4,000 US sailors and 75 fighter jets. We’ve been tracking it for the past week.
’Tis the season for tabletop games – bringing people together since 2500 BCE.