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Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...

Few moments in a soccer game are more electrifying than the penalty kick. The goalkeeper stands, waiting for the kick – and even before the ball is struck they must predict where it is going and ...

When our daughter was born this year, our lives changed forever. For my wife and me, there was a clear event horizon boundary separating a Before and an After – a reality that has been etched in our ...

Emma Lembke joined Instagram at age 12. Soon, she found herself “scrolling mindlessly for hours, addicted to gaining a certain number of likes, a certain number of comments.” She often wanted to stop ...

Trump escalates his war on Senate Republicans — and senators are striking back Dow falls 500 points in worst day for new Fed chair since 1994 Ukraine hits Moscow oil refinery in largest attack of war ...

This year will go down in history as the year a person became a trillionaire for the first time—on paper, at least. Elon Musk’s net worth catapulted to this unprecedented height thanks to the ...

We are born with the essential architecture of our brain raring to go. Over the previous nine months – give or take – some 100 billion neurons have sprung from a single 3 millimetre “neural tube” in ...