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IN DECEMBER 1989 Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist, set himself a Christmas project. Irked by shortcomings in other

SODANKYLA, a town in Finnish Lapland just north of the Arctic Circle, boasts an average annual temperature a little below

IN DECEMBER 1989 Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist, set himself a Christmas project. Irked by shortcomings in other

CREATOR, a new hamburger joint in San Francisco, claims to deliver a burger worth $18 for $6—in other words, to

WHEN the World Cup, now under way in Russia, progresses to the knockout phases of the competition on June 30th

EARTH is observed as never before. Satellites track typhoons, monitor volcanic-ash plumes and catalogue the changing ways in which human

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BILLIONS of years ago a star began to die. In the process, it created something new: 65,500 billion tonnes of

GREENLAND’S icy mountains are not an obvious place to search for an archive of economic history, but a study just

DRONES are getting ever smaller. The latest is the first insect-sized robot to take to the air without a tether