Does more education lead to less sex?
UNIVERSITY LIFE in America is often portrayed as an alcohol-fuelled, sexual free-for-all. In “The Sex Lives of College Girls”...
Inside the world’s most famous aeroplane boneyard
FOR INFANTRY and armoured cavalry, target practice is relatively straightforward. Load up on training rounds and aim for pape...
Forget DeepSeek. Large language models are getting cheaper still
As recently as 2022, just building a large language model (LLM) was a feat at the cutting edge of artificial-intelligence (AI...
The neglect of Asia was the great failure of Yalta, writes Stephen Kotkin
Archive 1945 is a project republishing The Economist’s original reporting on the final year of the second world war. Eighty y...
Is MAGA great for India?
When Narendra Modi walks into the White House this week, he will do so as the prime minister of the world’s fifth-largest eco...
A British incubator of businesses often bound for the Bay Area
LAST MONTH Jemima Bunbury and Daan Ferdinandusse incorporated Sartor Technologies, their fashion-tech startup, in America and...
A neutrino telescope spots the signs of something cataclysmic
ON FEBRUARY 13th 2023 an object with extraterrestrial origins went screaming through the Mediterranean Sea off the Sicilian c...
A new crackdown is gathering strength in Turkey
TURKEY’s TV stars do not have it easy. The global success of the country’s soap operas, episodes that last up to three hours,...
AI is being used to model football matches
To a human observer of football (the soccer sort), the on-pitch patterns—offence stretching and squeezing defence, counteratt...
Could a German startup disrupt Europe’s arms industry?
In the 1980s Robert Solow, an economist, remarked that you could see the computer age everywhere except the productivity stat...