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John Pardon sees connections between different areas of math that others don’t. For that vision, he’s now been awarded a Fields Medal.

Before he won a Fields Medal for his pioneering work balancing randomness and order, Yu Deng first had to achieve equilibrium in his own life.

A new Pew survey shows the world likes China more than the United States. Look closer, and the win belongs to nobody.

If China reads India through the lens of colonial subordination, India reads China through the lens of betrayal.

Will Argentina capitalize on growing momentum behind its claim to the islands?

Despite fearmongering that EVs will crash the grid, an emerging technology will help them support it by providing backup power.

I went on a tour where Israelis celebrated evicting Palestinians, as settlers carry out increased violence in the West Bank.

Warming has brought extreme rainfall to the parched Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill as monsoons grow stronger. But heavier downpours alone cannot explain the water revival, say hydrologists, who believe efforts to harvest rain, along with tree-planting projects, may be paying dividends.

I toured Mark McAfee’s Raw Farm for a story about raw milk’s foothold in America despite its health dangers. Here’s what he told me about recalls, outbreaks and his relationship with the federal government.

Decades of conflict have left Myanmar vulnerable to a secretive industry that is polluting communities and endangering workers.

Researchers in Vermont infected 5,300 American elms with a lethal dose of Dutch elm disease. Those that survive could help them build the most genetically diverse, disease-resistant population yet.

Record heat, a wildfire, and an unprecedented stage modification highlighted the growing challenge global warming poses to endurance sports.

Researchers say that the rainforest is at risk of losing the equivalent of about 2 million soccer fields over the next 10 years.

Call for more ‘truly wild’ areas to show how nature-rich Britain could be.

What happened: On Tuesday, France became the first EU country to approve a ban on social media for children under 15. “I committed to it, and n

Currently, electricity is more than twice as expensive as gas for direct use in all EU member states except Finland and S

Within just two months, the European countryside has switched from dark green to pale brown. Roughly three quarters of regions across Europe were brow

Rep. Thomas Massie had tried to strip the provision from the $1.15 trillion Pentagon budget, calling it “lopsided” in Israel’s favor.

But without “gold standard” constraints, the pact could allow Riyadh to eventually develop a warhead.

According to the WHO, the epidemic is “outpacing” response efforts.