From the World Bank Blogs: However, we mustn’t lose sight of the numerous other countries with high poverty rates.

A beautiful timelapse video of Europa and IO passing over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot using hundreds of images from Cassini.

Helen Pearson in Nature: Artificial intelligence (AI) could help speedily summarize research. But it comes with risks.

It wasn’t the economy. It wasn’t inflation, or anything else. It was how people perceive those things, which points to one overpowering answer.

The wisdom of the ancients advises us to reduce our anxiety by reflecting only on what is in our control.

کوئی کام شروع کرنے سے پہلے اپنے آپ سے تین سوالات پوچھیں – میں یہ…

Two recent discoveries have changed our understanding of the word’s earliest history in English.

Mark Krotov at n+1: Trump is America’s choice. No one, I think, is more responsible for this week’s result than Joe Biden.

For scientists of yore anything—from mermaids to alchemy—was on the table. When it came to fascination with the occult, Newton was hardly alone.

Hafsa Kanjwali in Aeon: India is a postcolonial power. Its rule in Kashmir is colonial.

He’s the awakener, the emancipator, a defector of the human race. He’s an artist.

Iraq is home to Mesopotamia, often called the “cradle of civilization,” where the first cities and writing systems emerged over 5,000 years ago.