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The number of wild bee species in Europe at risk of extinction has more than doubled over the past decade, while the number of endangered butterfly…

‘Are you sure you want that one?” asks the assistant in the flagship Waterstones store in Piccadilly, London. I’d picked up a classic self-help book, Thinking,…

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime…

Superintendents are citing fewer sources of job-related stress, but at the same time, a smaller portion of those leading America’s school districts say the stress they…

While overall sales to African countries are still small compared to these traditional export markets, the Global South appears to be at a turning point in…

The number of asylum seekers being housed in hotels has risen by 8% to 32,059 in a year, according to Home Office data.The data also shows…

Number of asylum seekers housed in UK hotels up 8% on 12 months ago at end of Labour’s first year in governmentA total of 32,059 asylum…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Palantir’s growth is the stuff of dreams; its…

An unusually high number of jellyfish have arrived in the UK’s seas this summer, experts have said.Jellyfish blooms arrive for their yearly reproduction cycle by following…

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system…