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How does one acquire star dust? One option, as the Perry Como song suggests, is to catch a falling star and put it in your pocket,…

Last night, the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, announced a £27.5m package for libraries. It’s the latest in a string of reading-focused government initiatives, the flagship being…

Winter hits Gaza hard, while activists and aid workers push to keep the world’s attention from slipping away.Winter in Gaza is not just a season; it…

As urban planners look to expand green spaces to help cool cities, a new study finds that, in arid regions, grassy areas can actually have a…

You have full access to this article via your institution. Malaria cases are on the rise.Credit: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty In 2015, the international community made a historic…

In the death throes of Boris Johnson’s government in the summer of 2022, Nadhim Zahawi was appointed chancellor by an increasingly desperate prime minister determined to…

On a cold morning in December 2024, florist Madeline King was on a buying trip to her local wholesaler when a wave of dizziness nearly knocked…

Updated at 12:00 p.m. ET on January 3, 2026The Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s regime lasted 12 years before America ended it today. This seems to be…

A group of progressive politicians and advocates are reframing emissions-cutting measures as a form of economic populism as the Trump administration derides climate policy as a…

It’s two days before Thanksgiving and Hillary Cohen and Samantha Luu are trying to figure out how they’re going to cook 120 turkeys with limited oven…