As the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric goes to both sides of conflicts. She’s worried that our warring world is spiraling out of control.

It proves exploitation can be outsourced.

Anything less will kill the planet and your kids with it.

The Bard of Salford, who is publishing his latest poetry collection at 77, talks to Ursula Kenny about getting older, wrestling with technology and the joys of cycling on very flat roads

Plato perfectly explained why having economists run the world will be the end of us all. In Book 6 of the Republic, Socrates separates two kinds of thinking, and the difference is not intelligence. ...

How the promise of AI abundance will leave us in chains instead.

‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed

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The Presidential AI Challenge seeks to inspire young people and educators to create AI-based innovative solutions to community challenges while fostering AI interest and competency.

“Of course, if AI can cure cancer, bravo. I’m all for it. But even with cancer cured, death will still arrive somehow.”

And why it is easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting, and what that means for whoever decides what you repeat.

Our broken social care system is a political hot-button issue and Andy Burnham has vowed to fix it. But finding the cash is only one of his problems. He needs to empower those who shoulder the burden.

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Inside Outside Engineering is growing! We are a small specialist MEP & Passivhaus consultancy based in London. Our work covers genuinely interesting and diverse projects across the UK: residential la...

Didn’t manage to get tickets to the exhibition of the 11th-century artwork at the British Museum in London? Don’t worry, our cartoonist has got you covered, capturing the many battles of our times in ...

Troops escort settlers into al-Mughayyir and raze village outside Hebron as ethnic cleansing of West Bank continues

Vice-president says on evangelical podcast he would feel ‘not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us’

In an exclusive extract from his new book, the Nerve’s Reform correspondent explores the career of ‘a leader who never seems to suffer the consequences of his actions’ – and asks if he should ever be ...

Experts say unusual heat this year has melted the ice that holds Himalayan glaciers in place – which is thought to have led to the floods in Nepal and Tibet

The Passivhaus standard is growing in popularity as UK homeowners adapt to hotter summer temperatures.

At 85, the actor has lived through much political upheaval. But, she writes, today’s hostile times feel like ‘the worst yet’. She reflects on her journey from teenage Tory to full-throated leftist – a...

Responding to the safety risks A.I. pose means coming to terms with an uncomfortable truth: A.I. models are weapons.

Bots are starting to conspire with one another. Can they be reeled back in?

Modelling finds AI-driven productivity gains in coal, oil and gas enable more emissions than applications in renewable energy avoid