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We live in uncertain and unstable times. The job market is contracting due to economic uncertainty, political instability and the increase of AI-driven automation. In my…

When people picture a school library, they still imagine rows of dusty books and students whispering behind tall shelves. But that image of silence couldn’t be…

Twice as many older Australians than young adults believe the world cannot do anything to prevent the worst effects of our rapidly heating climate, according to…

November 18, 20252 min readFive Essential Reads on Plastic, Power, and PollutionIf you enjoyed Beth Gardiner’s feature about big oil’s bet on plastics, here are more…

Plastics overwhelmingly end up in the ocean or at landfill sites.Credit: Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/LightRocket/GettyIn August, the world should have been celebrating the first global agreement to end…

October 17, 20252 min readWhy Aluminum in Vaccines Is Safe—And Often EssentialThe FDA wants to reevaluate the use of aluminum adjuvants despite a long record of…

AI chatbots are like students who don’t do the reading and raise their hand anyway.A new paper from researchers at OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, finds…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.JPMorgan Chase will take stakes in companies of…

Once a month without fail I decide to give up on all my goals and ambitions. “There’s just no point,” I sigh to my mother, who…

About 10 years ago, the guided pathways movement got its user’s manual.  Redesigning America’s Community Colleges, by Thomas Bailey, Shanna Smith Jaggars and Davis Jenkins of…