Reciprocal tariffs really mean chaos for global trade

What happens when you ditch the principles that underpinned global trade for three-quarters of a century? Donald Trump hopes ...

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Another win for geology’s Theory of Everything

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments calle...

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How the Trump administration wants to reshape American science

THE ANNUAL meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science afford researchers a chance to show off what t...

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Behind DeepSeek lies a dazzling Chinese university

A huge statue of Mao Zedong still stands near the entrance to Zhejiang University, surveying the transformation of the easter...

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Team Trump wants to get rid of Volodymyr Zelensky

FOR THREE years Ukraine has endured what was once unthinkable: an air and land assault on its capital; a bloody war of attrit...

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New research uncovers polygamy and intermarriage in ancient Eurasia

DNA’s power to illuminate humanity’s past never ceases to amaze. Collected from those now alive, it shows how their ancestors...

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Now is the time for Europe to show strength, not division, argues Sanna Marin

ALL WARS end, but how they end determines the shape of the peace that follows—and whether it will last. Now, as America has t...

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Which countries provide the most, and least, support to Ukraine?

AMONG THE many complaints made by President Donald Trump is that America has been much more generous than European countries ...

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Australia prepares for a lonelier, harsher world

AUSTRALIANS HAVE felt lucky but anxious since the first colonists waded ashore, over two centuries ago. An edge of insecurity...

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Catch up:Trump and Zelensky’s war of words

Donald Trump called Volodymyr Zelensky “a dictator without elections”, and accused him of talking America into spending $350b...

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