Despite seeming like a universal language – and sometimes they do function that way – emojis can be at once more vague, and ...

Visitor numbers to Antarctica could reach 450,000 a year within a decade, according to one scenario. How do we stem the tide?

Roland Barthes’ notion that the author is dead has been incredibly influential, though it was not as original or ...

The new lung cancer screening program needs to be independently evaluated to keep it on track, and to minimise the harms.

The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program has been particularly important for understanding when a hurricane is about to ...

Surf overtourism has led to conflicts over how beaches are used and concerns over social and environmental harms. But there ...

Recent findings from the Climate Change Committee, independent advisers to the UK government on climate policy, show that the ...

Both Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu talked of regime change in Iran. Instead they may have left the Islamic Republic ...

The weakened prime minister urgently needs to get out and talk to his MPs before any more embarrassing arguments blow up.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an urgent warning about tianeptine – a substance marketed as a dietary ...

As humanity moves closer to extracting and using space resources, the need for a cohesive and responsible global governance ...

If that’s true, though, then we’d expect people to also be good at detecting when someone is “faking” it – what we call ...