History often turns on a handful of decisions, accidents, or breakthroughs that permanently redirect civilization. This episode explores four pivotal moments whose absence would have reshaped politics ...

Futurist and author Tracey Follows, who helped write a government White Paper on UK education in 2050, believes learning will ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

The world of work has experienced seismic shifts throughout the past five years. The pandemic ushered in an era of remote and hybrid work. Conversations once deemed taboo in the workplace, like mental ...

Mainstream adoption isn't about token price as much as crypto being part of our everyday lives. Legislation on stablecoins and a surge in real-world asset tokenization could be game-changers for ...

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

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Ian Scoones was a recipient of a European Research Council Advanced Grant for the PASTRES project - Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Global Lessons from the ...

Dreaming of a white Christmas or not, the chances of actually seeing snow on December 25 come down to both the prevailing climate wherever you live and the weather leading up to and on the day. For ...

"I believe that, within the next decade, we will not only get the world back on track but enter a new era of unprecedented ...

We are going to be getting a lot of exciting new information about galaxies in 2026, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, who can't ...

Legend has it that 18th-century Romantic painter Francisco Goya was once a porter here. Ernest Hemingway set the closing scene of The Sun Also Rises at a table in an upstairs dining room, and the ...