As the electronic signals from our planet expand ever outwards into space, the world is marking 50 years since humanity broadcast its first radio message intended to get a response
Global warming caused by humans might be closer to a crucial climate threshold than current estimates suggest. A study1 of Antarctic ice cores argues that, in 2023, human-driven warming reached
South Africa advertised up to 200 events during its term as BRICS chair last year.Credit: Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty When economics researcher Jim O’Neill coined the acronym BRIC in 2001, it was
Scott Imbrie still remembers the first time that physicians switched on the electrodes sitting on the surface of his brain. He felt a tingling, poking sensation in his hand, like
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A sperm whale swims away, leaving a cloud of feces. Blue Planet Archive/Alamy In the 20th century, people’s demand for whale blubber and baleen drove industrial whalers to kill roughly