The Tropical Forests Forever Facility, an initiative spearheaded by Brazil, would raise money from investments and pay ...

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There are serious issues with new proposals to use artificial intelligence to predict future crimes, says Yu Xiong, chair of ...

Acclaimed photographers Paul Nicklen and Cristina Mittermeier showcase a changing planet as part of the Photo London ...

Women were historically excluded from health studies on the grounds that hormone fluctuations introduced "noise" into the ...

Anomalies in the moon’s gravitational field suggest our satellite’s insides are warmer on one side than the other – which ...

If advanced alien civilisations are building vast satellite swarms designed to harvest a star’s energy, we should be able to see them – so why haven’t we? One answer might be that these ...