Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem drew outrage when she sported a Rolex watch reported to cost $50,000 when visiting the El Salvadorian mega-prison known as CECOT this month. Civil rights ...

Even our secular modern world likes this mixture of forecasting, prophecy, and hieratic hocus-pocus. Twenty-first century British governments have the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). It is not ...

Nanoscience and technology is the branch of science that studies systems and manipulates matter on atomic, molecular and supramolecular scales (the nanometre scale). On such a length scale ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

Last week the city of Paris paid tribute to Pierre Boulez (born on 26th March 1925) with three days of sold-out events reviving many of his major works. In London – where he made if anything an even ...

Research on cannabis was hotting up 50 years ago, and accessible lectures on the physics of matter from Nobel laureate William Bragg, in this week’s dip into Nature’s archive.