Now a group of scientists have found another use for these contraptions: keeping future Moon-dwellers fit. In a paper in Royal Society Open Science, they propose that astronauts living on NASA ’s ...

Dyson first used this technique to treat wheat, and is now spraying other crops including oilseed rape (known as canola in America), maize and potatoes. The company reckons it is seeing a reduction of ...

S ince its independence almost 60 years ago, Singapore has become a beacon of prosperity. In a part of the world where middle-income status is the norm, the city-state is now the ...

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Lawrence Wong, the finance minister and deputy prime minister, will take the reins of the city-state’s government on May 15th. The country does not churn through prime ministers: he will be just the ...

D onald Trump’s criminal trial, soon to enter its fifth week, has felt like drawn-out foreplay. There have been moments of frisson. But as with any such encounter that stretches ...

Donald Trump’s lawyers called for mistrial after Stormy Daniels took the stand in the former president’s criminal trial. The judge denied the request. They had objected to what they called ...

The judge overseeing Mr Trump’s criminal case in Florida—in which he is accused of harbouring classified documents—indefinitely postponed the trial.  Aileen Cannon, who was appointed by Mr Trump, said ...

The list of those it has charged in its two-decade history is a 54-name-long litany of infamy. It includes Muammar Qaddafi, the Libyan tyrant for whom an arrest warrant was issued on charges of crimes ...

W HEN HAMAS announced, on the evening of May 6th, that it had agreed to a ceasefire with Israel, the mood in Rafah turned ...

But the ravages of war are not the only reason for the government’s reduced tax take. Businesses are also making use of the chaos to dodge paying their fair share. This is particularly true in ...