Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico amp up the risk of a broader trade war
Trump’s new tariff war with Canada and Mexico shows his willingness to weaponise trade in pursuit of unrelated political ...
Can a child legally take puberty blockers? What if their parents disagree?
Recent political attention might imply gender-affirming care is risky, controversial, perhaps even new. But Australian law ...
Astronomers have spied an asteroid that may be heading for Earth. Here’s what we know so far
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
Trump says he wants to take Greenland. International law says otherwise
The US president says he wants Greenland for security reasons. But Greenland is not terra nullius ripe for American ...
Teens on social media: Red, blue and purple states are all passing laws to restrict and protect adolescents
In 1998, long before the age of Instagram or TikTok, the federal government set a minimal baseline for internet safety for ...
Leonardo da Vinci’s incredible studies of human anatomy still don’t get the recognition they deserve
The Italian Renaissance artist created groundbreaking depictions of humans at a time when the inner workings of the body ...
South African troops are dying in the DRC: why they’re there and what’s going wrong
The Southern African Development Community intervention force in the mission in the DRC is outgunned and outmanned.
DeepSeek claims to have cured AI’s environmental headache. The Jevons paradox suggests it might make things worse
In the 1860s, economist William Stanley Jevons said more efficient coal furnaces simply meant more coal was burned.
Bogus scientific papers are enriching fraudsters and slowing lifesaving medical research
The world’s library of scientific papers is becoming contaminated as fraudsters use ‘paper mills’ to game scholarly ...
How should Keir Starmer handle Donald Trump – and how’s it going so far?
Relations between presidents and prime ministers aren’t always easy, even without Elon Musk weighing in with his views.
What happened in the German parliament and why is the far right hailing it as a ‘historic’ moment?
In a dramatic swing to the right, Friedrich Merz’s CDU is proposing Germany breaches EU law by closing its borders to ...
The Austin 7 is back – a short history of the iconic British car that changed the automotive industry
Now it’s back, thanks to the engineer John Stubbs who bought the Austin brand after noticing the brand and trademarks were ...