Mahmood Mamdani specialises in the study of African and international politics, colonialism and post‐colonialism, and the ...

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Stone Age Ireland was likely not ruled over by incestuous “god-kings” 5500 years ago, as previously thought, a team of ...

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Paleontologists studying insects trapped in amber from 99 million years ago have made a remarkable discovery: an ant and a ...

Cars may be a modern phenomenon, but motion sickness is not. More than 2,000 years ago, the physician Hippocrates wrote ...

This column reviews the evolving policy views of the U.S. Copyright Office that address the copyrightability of outputs question. It mainly focuses the Office’s January 2025 report Copyright and ...

Could the deadly fungus linked to Tutankhamun’s curse be the key to a groundbreaking cancer treatment? In recent years, the ...

A new book charts how the discipline transcended humble origins and turned into something more ambitious, and more conflicted ...

Inspired by superconductivity, a strange new theory that seeks to explain dark matter might explain dark energy, too ...

Driver morale is declining across the industry, with drivers feeling increasingly negative about company meetings and ...