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The neo-monarchist muse of Silicon Valley helped inspire Elon Musk’s DOGE. Now he compares it to an orchestra of chimpanzees.

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Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians, provoked a storm when she said she wanted to ‘make ...

A remarkable discovery in the Damjili Cave in Azerbaijan has uncovered an 8,000-year-old sandstone figurine, offering a rare ...

Unlike most collectors—whose collections include everything from stamps to sailboats—Swiss writer Rolf Dobelli has been collecting stories of failure, “botched attempts at work, family life, marriage ...

Modern HIV medicine is based on a common genetic mutation. Now, researchers have traced where and when the mutation arose - and how it protected our ...

An island 80 kilometres off the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula is home to a unique and celebrated community of ...

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In San Teodoro cave, north-eastern Sicily, a team of scientists has found evidence of earliest recorded presence of humans on ...

Anti-intellectualism erodes critical thinking and paves the way for far-right extremism, writes Amelia Romanowska.