For years quantum technology seemed exciting in theory but not much good in practice. Now the ability to combine qubits—bits ...

From Bangkok to Berlin, people everywhere are having fewer babies—and the decline is happening faster than many demographers ...

Although commonly thought of as a “male” hormone, testosterone is essential for women too—it contributes to libido, sexual ...

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Production of one-cent coins in America will cease in 2026. The penny’s life has been long and fruitful, but its time has ...

Weekly edition of The Economist for Nov 15th 2025. You've seen the news, now discover the story.

It will spend around $41bn on capital expenditures this year, of which more than two-thirds is allocated to the types of ...

Brett Thurber, the owner of The New Wheel, a small chain of bike stores in the San Francisco Bay area, says that over the ...

The question for Democrats, who will now probably lose Mr Golden’s seat in 2026, is whether their leaders are still sensible ...

Universal free child care is a popular policy on the American left these days. Zohran Mamdani, New York’s Democratic ...

Since then China has rapidly expanded its security activity abroad by offering foreign governments police training and ...

He represented a previous tradition of reactionary Catholic nationalism, his worldview forged by Spain’s humiliating loss of ...