Extremophile molds are invading art museums and devouring their collections. Stigma and climate change have fueled their ...

Last summer I polled the great art houses of Europe with a seemingly straightforward question: Had they had any recent experiences with mold in their collections? Mold is a perennial scourge in ...

Fireplaces are cozy until it’s time to shovel out the ashes. Nuclear power has the same problem: abundant, reliable energy ...

For centuries, the principle of symmetry has guided physicists towards more fundamental truths, but now a slew of shocking ...

Nine months into the chancellorship of Friedrich Merz, the outlook for Germany looks grim. The country’s economy, the world’s ...

If the decades-long animosity with Iran has taught the US anything, it is that interference in the Islamic Republic’s ...

The Islamic Republic cannot survive the death of Khamenei, the growing power of the IRGC, or the loss of popular legitimacy.

In politics, the kind of strong leadership and clear vision that we’re seeing from President Donald Trump aren’t things that ...

As Arctic ice thins and shipping lanes open, Russia has stumbled on a chilling legacy of the Cold War: a long-lost Soviet ...

As history, from Tehran to Dhaka, repeatedly shows, the danger is not merely who rules, but how long, how unchecked, and how insulated they become from the people in whose name they govern ...

Hints of impossibly bright, massive objects in the infant universe have forced astronomers to rethink how the first cosmic ...

An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete ...