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For much of the post–Cold War period, Central Asia operated as a “managed condominium”—a geopolitical arrangement where Russia supplied the hard-security umbrella and China functioned as the dominant ...
The Washington Post, AP and others have reported that Russia is providing Iran with intelligence to target US forces, including the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle ...
Sanctions evasion has traditionally been viewed as a game of financial shell companies and hidden bank accounts. While those opaque traditional structures remain the bedrock of illicit finance, the me...
A report that US President Donald Trump is more bullish in private about putting American soldiers on the ground in Iran than he has been publicly stirred immediate condemnation among lawmak...
Joined on the catwalk by Alana Hadid, the Palestinian label also revealed a collaboration with Khalifa’s jewellery brand Sheytan
At Paris Fashion Week, the English designer highlights the importance of women in creative director roles
Impressions from the Whitney Biennial, DePaul Art Museum closes, Carol Bove at the Guggenheim, and how to cure "creative hangover."
One of the great mysteries in the Universe is that, in all the vastness of space, we have yet to detect any sort of life out there beyond our own planet. Whether microbial and simple, multicellular an...
What if humanity is the galaxy’s only advanced civilization? Brian Cox examines why, despite billions of stars and trillions of planets, we have found no evidence of other intelligent life. This video...
When I first started working in venture capital, I was given a seemingly straightforward assignment: Get to know the most successful founders we’d invested in and figure out what they had in common. I...
In the opening chapter of his book, Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche argues that philosophers have always had a strange, pathological obsession with “truth.” Truth is seen as the greatest goo...
When most of us were children, and we went to a rural area with clear skies overhead at night, we were all greeted by the same familiar sight: a dark night sky, glittering with many hundreds or even t...
Your weight doesn't change because of gravity but because the floor pushes back. Physicists explain why elevators briefly make you feel heavier or lighter.
The first bubble of hot gas seen around another star has been spotted around the "Moth," just 117 light-years away.
March 2026 could be the best month for the northern lights until the mid-2030s, as celestial mechanics and solar activity combine for potentially potent results.
Ancient followers of the Eleusinian Mysteries may have used a highly toxic fungus to create psychedelic hallucinations during their rituals, a new chemical analysis suggests.
Q&A with cognitive neuroscientist Steve Fleming: What the science of self-awareness can tell us about confident decision-making
A newly published study suggests that the immune system may play a role in why recovery from pain differs in men and women.
The mysterious Lady of Elche was crafted from a large limestone block before the Romans ruled Spain.
A doctor who had a genetic condition that prevents teeth from forming searched for the DNA mutation that had affected his family for over 150 years.