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Financial firepower is of course only one measure of the effectiveness of our multinational institutions, but it is an important one given the world we live in. The resources available to the IMF ...

Physicists have long known that black holes do not necessarily have to form from collapsing stars. Under the right conditions, spacetime itself can organize into a delicate, highly ordered state that ...

One hundred and ninety-three in 41 countries: that is the reported figure on cases of social media shutdowns across Africa between 2016 and 2024. The subsequent years weren’t any better, with cases ...

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From writing emails to generating computer code, much of the artificial intelligence prevalent in our daily lives has succeeded by mastering one domain: text. However, this leaves a major blind spot ...

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Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza may be one of the most iconic landmarks on the planet but, beneath its surrounding sands, there still lie countless untold secrets. Now, archaeologists have uncovered a ...