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On February 20th America’s Supreme Court struck down Donald Trump’s signature policy. The president claimed the International ...

China’s dominance over critical minerals means that continuing to place full faith in the invisible hand would be naive and ...

In Citrini’s near future, output keeps growing, “driven by AI agents that don’t sleep, take sick days or require health ...

Desperate to break China’s grip on critical minerals, the Trump administration is splashing cash around the world ...

OBDC II has cast doubt on the model that such firms had hoped would “democratise” private investment—and win them new revenue ...

Even in America, which imports more capital than any other country, influential thinkers have contemplated taxing bond purchases by foreigners to keep the dollar competitive. In this era of ...

The chewier problem for plant-based-meat companies is that their products are classified as ultra-processed foods, a result of their long ingredient lists and production processes. Health-conscious ...

This year the National Bureau of Statistics ( NBS) got into the spirit of things by revealing, for the first time, exactly how much Chinese consumers spend on food. The number emerged from a revision ...

In a paper published in PNAS, they reveal not only that these ancient carvings were applied in an intentional, systematic ...

It’s not just the colour. Over 600,000 locals squeeze past rotting rubbish piles, duck under a jungle of sagging wires and breathe fumes from open drains. Built for a tenth of this number, the old ...

They call it a “world model”, an essential tool to help AI systems make sense of the complex, unpredictable physical spaces ...