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Which animals came first? For more than a century, most evidence suggested that sponges, immobile filter-feeders that lack muscles, neurons and other specialized tissues, were the…

A UK professor will not get to return to teaching while the university continues investigating him. Gwengoat/iStock/Getty Images Plus A federal judge is, for now, declining…

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…

We are repeatedly sold a painfully two-dimensional picture of the motivations of those seeking shelter in Britain. According to this picture, migrants are eager to experience…

In the opening scene of the black comedy The Death of Stalin, a violinist in Moscow is told her orchestra is giving a command performance for…

A faculty panel determined in late September that McCoul’s academic freedom was violated. McKenna Baker/iStock/Getty Images Texas A&M University will not reinstate Melissa McCoul, the instructor…

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Kenyan health workers wait to receive a COVID-19 vaccine supplied by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Credit: Simon Maina/AFP via GettyThe United States is rolling out bilateral…

‘I am a citizen of the world,” so the great Renaissance thinker Desiderius Erasmus is reputed to have said. It is because of his cosmopolitanism that…

If changes to the NHS dental contract in England result in fewer people being left to suffer with complex problems because they cannot get treatment, that…