Rare earths are rare only in the sense that they tend to be found in very low concentrations and are chemically difficult to ...

Amazon dieback”, as this grim scenario is known, is just one example of what climate scientists refer to as a tipping point: ...

T HE TIMING could not have been worse. Days before a crucial summit in Alaska between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, ...

The other problem is that they sound like good news. Negative feedbacks face the opposite problem. In a negative feedback, ...

Treasurers can take comfort from the size of their funds—Harvard’s comes to $53bn, for instance—and the fact that, over the ...

The more China uses its rare-earths weapon, therefore, the weaker it will become. Time and again, enterprise and ingenuity ...

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In Britain HPV causes about 3,500 cases of cervical cancer each year and 900 deaths. A vaccination programme that inoculates ...

Pollution was real, he argued, but he was “extremely pro-business” and, in fact, some environmentalists were “enemies of the system”. President Donald Trump is using a version of that argument to ...

G LEN POWELL, a Hollywood heartthrob, likes 1x listening speed: “I want to hear people talk at a normal human rate.” Bowen Yang, an American comedian, prefers his narration fast and loose—“You can ...

For Mr Putin the summit in Alaska is a victory in itself, a sign of Russia’s great-power status. He believes that the ...

Back then China tended to punish transgressions by cutting access to its consumer market, such as for Australian wine or ...