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September 11, 20256 min readScientists Clash over whether Polar Geoengineering Is a Dangerous GambleScientists are beginning to take clear sides on whether or not to use…

Do they come for you at dawn or dusk? In the dead of night, or at family dinnertime? Will they come with masks and shields, or…

Technologists and policymakers are reckoning with a generation-defining problem on the internet: while it can be a revolutionary force for unprecedented education and connection across the…

At the end of August the Sun put a picture of a pink poodle-shaped balloon on its front page, not to illustrate the last dog days…

Joe PikePolitical correspondentGetty ImagesIn politics the summer holidays offer a major opportunity for opposition parties.A quieter news agenda means the chance to break through with policies.Multiple…

MPs have raised the alarm about a rise in abuse linked to debates around immigration, with some reporting levels of online harassment and death threats worse…

For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei…

After a Danish zoo posted a reminder of its long-running programme allowing people to donate their healthy, small pets to be “gently euthanised” and fed to…

Kelly NgBBC News, SingaporePUBA group of seven Indian workers used a rope to hoist a woman to safety after her car fell into a sinkholeWhen a…