Balance sheets have become unbalanced and growth in turn may suffer the consequences

Historians like to blame drought, famine and invaders. But this can’t explain why the empires never came back.

Intervistato da Francesco Costa per Talk, ha risposto così sulla possibilità di una sua candidatura a sindaco di Milano

Intervistato da Francesco Costa per Talk, ha risposto così sulla possibilità di una sua candidatura a sindaco di Milano

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Scientists are probing whether language models trained on historical data can reproduce creative breakthroughs.

Sadiq Khan has implemented a public-health approach that was previously fringe

Meowing aside, urine is one of the most important ways cats communicate. Both wild and domestic kitties mark their territories to tell other felines to keep out or to advertise for mates. These unique...

US retailer reports higher sales as net income boosted by Washington’s tariff return programme

Scientists share help and advice on how they got their research discussions flowing.

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 13 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02548-8Weber et al. show that the normally conserved spatial organization of the digit response maps in primary somatosensory cortex is altered in patients with surgically repaired hand nerves.

There is ample empirical evidence that humans are cooperative, but there is also evidence that humans can be distrustful, hostile and aggressive. In this Review, Van Lange and Bergmann reconcile this ...

Measuring the deformation of a surface hit by a falling droplet offers insights into water’s erosive power.

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Passive wealth gains increasingly matter more than earnings for one’s standing in society

Rita Levi-Montalcini, the trailblazing scientist who kept working to survive

Obeying speed limits can save over six million gallons of fuel and fifty thousand metric tonnes of carbon dioxide per day with minimal delay, based on analysis of more than one hundred twenty million vehicle trajectories assessing speed limit interventions across the United States.

Comparing the two economies is harder than it seems

Changing terminology risks misleading policymakers and harming those in most need