The Baillie Gifford Prize is an annual British book award for the best non-fiction written in English. Formerly known as the Samuel Johnson prize – after the creator of the first English ...
Is a "tripledemic" on the way this winter? Some scientists think so, as an early uptick in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) virus cases in the US and Canada emerges alongside transmissio...
US economic growth rebounded more than expected in the third quarter. GDP increased at a 2.6% annualized rate, the Commerce Department said in its advance estimate on 27 October.
Ella Kissi-Debrah was the first person in the world to have air pollution listed as the cause of death. She was just nine years old when she died.
Books are starting to look different because of inflation.
We’ve all heard of greenhouse gas emissions, and you've probably heard of Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions? But what about Scope 4?
¿Qué es suave, de color blanco plateado y podría dificultar que el mundo se vuelva verde?
What’s soft, silvery-white and could make it harder for the world to go green?
Investment in renewable energy hit record levels in India in the 2021-22 financial year, according to a new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.
Meta has rebranded Facebook Pay as Meta Pay in the first step of a process intended to allow users to take their digital property with them when they move between metaverse spaces.
US stock markets tumbled this week, entering a "bear market" – meaning share values have fallen at least 20% from recent highs. Stocks on the benchmark S&P 500 index dropped by 3.9% o...
This article was updated on 10 March 2023 and 27 October 2022. It was first published on 14 June 2022.
The World Bank has cut its global growth forecast by nearly a third to 2.9% for 2022, saying that Russia's war on Ukraine has added to the damage caused by COVID-19 and that many countrie...
Confirmed cases of COVID-19 have passed 532 million globally, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number of confirmed deaths has now passed 6.29 million. More than 11.82 billion va...
Facebook’s financial arm, Meta Financial Technologies, is looking into the creation of a virtual currency for the metaverse, the Financial Times reports. It is considering launching in-ap...
