Maine has a state treat, the whoopie pie. South Carolina has a style of dance, the shag. State reptiles abound, from the horned toad (Wyoming) to the collared lizard (Oklahoma). New Mexico even has an ...

A change was needed because the old method of making steel is incredibly dirty. The Port Talbot plant is the single biggest emitter in Britain. Its two smokestacks account for one-fifth of Wales’s ...

The race between Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon to categorise all life had long-lasting consequences ...

Gregg Abbott, Texas’s Republican governor, instructed the state’s education agency to “ignore” the Biden administration’s ...

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In 2022 Japan spent more than $60bn of its foreign-exchange reserves defending the yen, its first intervention to strengthen ...

H UMZA YOUSAF announced his resignation as Scotland’s first minister on April 29th after a mere 13 months (or 8.1 Liz Trusses) in office. Four days earlier he had unilaterally terminated a coalition ...

In early trading, as Asian markets opened on April 29th, the currency plummeted to a 34-year low of 160 to the dollar, adding to its hefty fall against the greenback over the past three years (see ...

But extremists are on the march again. They have re-emerged in havens old and new, and are thriving in cyberspace. Furthermore, Israel’s war in Gaza is all but certain to radicalise a new generation.

Scientists have experimented with enzymes, biological molecules that facilitate biochemical reactions, to remove A and B antigens to make O -type blood for decades. But enzyme-treated blood can still ...

P icture a pair of adversaries—let’s call them Joe and Donald. In a story of rivalry, vanquishment and triumph, Joe beats Donald in a race or a fight. Now imagine they face off again. This drama is ...