Artificial Intelligence or AI – and the technology behind it – is moving fast. The question being asked across the world is who gets a seat at the table deciding how it's used and who gets to benefit.

Artists Refik Anadol and Cao Fei are among the judges for the London-based Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellowship

This paper examines how aesthetic and embodied learning in higher education can foster democratic citizenship as a lived and evolving practice. Building on t...

Climate change is forcing many European cities to rethink how they are designed and managed. Infrastructure built for the weather conditions of the past is increasingly being tested by heavier…

So much contemporary design feels more bloviating than expressive, as though visual volume now matters more than beauty, writes Debbie Millman.

Women across Europe are consistently greener than men, but only sometimes at the ballot box EUI researcher Ingvild Zinober maps where climate concern turns in

The site, called Stud or Dud, helps daters dig up dirt on potential paramours. It’s fueled by the same public data as PeopleFinders.com—and comes with many of the same concerns.

Andy Hines writes on how profit incentive, prestige-seeking, and student repression intersect at elite U.S. universities. Despite institutions' public commitments to free expression, willingness to…

“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”

Many young men are driven to resentment and are financially exploited as influencers sell them classes, pills, and the illusion of clout, a new report reveals.

Once, I spent a year walking Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery daily, winding between the marble tombs engulfed by tree-roots and emblazoned with the surnames of the dead, each followed…

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

What are borderlands and how do they shape questions of identity and belonging? Annika Bärwald explores the history of Hamburg's port and the people who passed through it.

The Nepal disaster appears to be a “cascading event,” where one hazard seems to have triggered another, experts say

In Alaska, the Himalayas, the Andes, Greenland, and perhaps also the Alps, deadly chain reactions are just waiting to be triggered, says climate professor Bill McGuire

As adaptation gained momentum in 2025, attention now turns to the political dynamics that will determine whether climate resilience delivers in 2026.

As our climate changes, the risk from a glacier lake outburst flood is changing. The risk depends on the hazard, vulnerability and exposure.

Nepal’s rapidly warming Himalayan region is experiencing an increased risk of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), driven by accelerated glacier melt, intense rainfall and unstable glacial lakes.…

Nepal’s Rasuwa floods expose how a rapidly warming Hindu Kush-Himalaya has outgrown 20th-century dam design and disaster planning. Experts warn that rising GLOF risks, glacier loss and sudden flash…

Glacial Lake Outburst Floods are rising due to climate change. Urgent action, funding and cooperation are key to preventing catastrophic impacts.

Due to changes made by the Data (Use and Access) Act, this guidance is under review and may be subject to change. The Plans for new and updated guidance page will tell you about which guidance will…

The tribe cited concerns over energy, water use, and the relatively small number of permanent jobs these massive facilities create.

The history of science — and of progress — is a series of benefits that are direct results of new tools.

What happens when cameras become almost invisible?

Why do people feel poor in increasingly affluent societies? Séamus Power explores how perceptions of inequality, fairness and social status influence politics, protest and the future of capitalism

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

As space for environmental advocacy rapidly shrinks, Indigenous peoples, climate activists, and land defenders increasingly face harassment, criminalization, and repression for protecting lands, ecosy...

Famous paintings do not stay still when the street gets hold of them. They climb stairs, take over street signs and borrow whole buildings. This fixed editorial countdown ranks ten reimaginings by…

Scientists are livid over the OSTP director's official report to the President. Will it lead to a new golden age for US science, or end it?

Letter: A genuinely competitive market would prevent any single company’s decisions from putting the system at risk, says Prof Erika Denton

Promoting repair improves the sustainable consumption of goods by consumers

UNESCO works to promote freedom of expression online at a time when the digital ecosystem offers new opportunities and multiplies challenges for freedom of expression.

Experts from the Atlantic Council Technology Programs share their perspectives on what to expect from AI around the globe in the year ahead.

Climate change is a global emergency that goes beyond national borders. It is an issue that requires coordinated solutions at all levels and international cooperation to help countries move toward a…

AI’s rapid growth drives huge energy, water, and land use, raising environmental and equity challenges across its global infrastructure.

Prediction markets and a move toward AI forecasting are starting to put the accuracy of weather predictions at risk. Here’s what we can do to safeguard them.

The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol are the key documents that form the basis of UNHCR’s work. Learn more about them and view the original text.