Mathematicians around the world are struggling to come to terms with a breakthrough that has challenged their understanding of their profession and its future. On 6 October, OpenAI released 722 manuscripts generated
Correction Notice: An earlier version of this article incorrectly referred to the late son of Mr. Gadi Eisenkot, who was killed in Gaza, as “Gadi.” His son’s name was Gal Eisenkot. The
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Just one week after a deadly attack disrupted Berlin’s Christopher Street Day celebrations, tens of thousands of people gathered in Hamburg for what became the largest Pride parade in the city’s history.
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Young people across India recently made international headlines for mass protests over the recurring leaks of entrance exams that help students qualify for medical schools and highly coveted government jobs. The Gen Z protesters won
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The oldest known engravings consist of zigzag patterns and parallel lines, carved into freshwater mussel shells at Trinil on the island of Java, Indonesia. These grooves, made by Homo erectus, date to roughly half
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As democracies around the world face mounting challenges and pressures, discussions about autocracy often focus on personalities and ideologies or tend to link governance practices to differences among specific cultural traditions. Yet
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While Western collector car cultures have spent over a century maturing into multi-billion-dollar industries, China’s story is just getting started. As the world’s largest auto market shifts from raw volume growth to
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by Our Correspondent in New Delhi The morning after India’s education minister resigned, Arundhati Roy returned to Jantar Mantar, where, only days earlier, one of the most remarkable protest movements in recent
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Europe’s industrial strategy is entering a decisive phase as China’s rapidly expanding manufacturing capacity places mounting pressure on some of the continent’s most important industries. As explored in an in-depth analysis by
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Israel’s approaching parliamentary elections are emerging as a defining moment not only for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future but also for the ideological direction of the country. As explored in an
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As competition between the United States and China accelerates in the race to develop advanced artificial intelligence, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has entered one of Washington’s most contentious technology debates with
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Beauty is not simply a matter of symmetry, proportion or artistic taste. For Spanish philosopher Ricardo Piñero, it is a transformative encounter capable of changing the course of a person’s life. That
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A rapidly growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has once again placed scientists in a race against time. While the world now possesses approved Ebola treatments and vaccines
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Seventy-five years after the adoption of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, the international system designed to protect people fleeing war, persecution and violence is facing one of the
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A symposium in Shanghai has revisited the celebrated eight-hour meeting between Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw and Chinese literary pioneer Lu Xun in 1933, using historical reenactments, scholarly discussion and cultural exchange
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A U.S. federal appeals court on Saturday ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot implement major parts of an executive order aimed at tightening mail-in voting procedures in 23 states, leaving in
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