A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...

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Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

The first episode, which aired on 23 April, introduced us to five intrepid duos who set off on a 14,000km race to ... stretching over 21,000km. One of the new seven wonders of the world, the ...

7 min read Analysis As Trump Says He’s Stamping Out Antisemitism, He Advances Similar Tropes President Trump’s effort to punish Harvard over antisemitism is complicated by his own history of ...

However, the landscape has changed as governments around the world reorder policy priorities and uncertainties have climbed to new highs. Forecasts for global growth have been revised markedly down ...