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Let me reassure Melanie Jones (Letters, 21 April) that my sympathy for Peter Mandelson’s plight, when he was caught short late one evening, would extend to…

The governor of a state with one of the shortest school years in the country has issued an executive order aimed at blocking any further erosion…

Teachers are used to outbreaks of rudeness and defiance from their pupils, but are now saying parents are some of the worst offenders and affecting staff…

Scientists have reconstructed short movies from the brain activity of mice that watched videos for a project that aspires to lift the veil on how animals…

While artificial intelligence has ushered in a new era of more accurate weather forecasting, A.I. models may still struggle to predict freak storms. This week a…

A global shortage of nearly a million midwives is leaving pregnant women without the basic care needed to prevent harm, including the deaths of mothers and…

Seventy metres down, in deep incognito beneath a disguised ventilation shaft in the Chilterns countryside, lies HS2’s buried treasure: two 10-mile tunnels, built to avoid an…

A gene that is important for human hearing could determine whether a dog’s ears are pendulous like a basset hound’s or stubby like a rottweiler’s, according…

Why do we have so few public toilets in UK cities? It’s hard to think of two more fundamental social needs than a) not being forced…

Life’s too short to … use a smartphoneRutger Bregman, author Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty ImagesFor years, I told myself I could manage my smartphone use. I tried…