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An artificial intelligence (AI) model can score English essays with improved accuracy across different writing topics, according to work published in the International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning.
As transatlantic relations confront renewed geopolitical uncertainty, former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves delivers a pointed assessment of Washington's shifting approach to Russia's war on Ukraine and the profound implications for European security.
Most studies of how clouds are responding to climate change focus on clouds over the oceans, rather than over mountains.
Promises by nations to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to finance nature and increase protections for oceans around the globe are falling short ahead of a key U.N.
In physics, tipping points occur when systems—say, Earth's climate—reach an unstable point and topple over into a sea of change that is sometimes irreversible.
New research published in Current Biology led by professor Katie Field demonstrates for the first time that it can establish a fully functional, resource-sharing partnership with an ancient soil fungus known as a Mucoromycotina fine root endophyte (MFRE).
Nearly half of the reptiles were protected under CITES, the global wildlife trade treaty.
Solutions are urgently needed, but while scientists, conservationists and more than 75 nations have called for binding limits on fossil fuel-driven plastic production, the plastics industry is opposed to all limits and is instead pushing a collection of technologies known as ‘chemical recycling.’ Critics say
Supporters of planned tax, however, say banks were bailed out by taxpayers during financial crisis and can afford to pay more now John Healey poised to raise taxes on banks in budget The International Monetary Fund has urged John Healey to target savings on pensions
Global timekeepers have voted to end the practice of adding extra seconds to UTC, citing risks to computer systems and the prospect of the first-ever negative leap second.
A study led by the Centre for Global Wood Security formally defines the concept of global wood security and identifies the 20 greatest challenges to wood security in the 21st century.
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group claimed responsibility after two missiles struck Aden International Airport Friday, saying they had targeted a weapons depot as well as a military command headquarters.
Protest organisers called on institutions like the International Monetary Fund to focus on climate financing and tax reforms that aid poorer citizens, rather than demand governments cut subsidies and social spending.
A new high-resolution 3D model developed by an international team led by Dr Brandt Gaches from the University of Duisburg-Essen shows how the uneven structure of stellar nurseries creates shadows that alter their chemistry and influence the infrared emission observed by the James Webb Space
Australian researchers and international collaborators have demonstrated a solar-driven approach to convert glycerol, a low-value byproduct of biodiesel production, into hydrogen and higher-value chemicals.
A University of Missouri astronomer is leading a team of 130 researchers from 62 institutions—including NASA, the California Institute of Technology, Princeton University and Harvard University—on an ambitious mission to capture an unprecedented view of the early universe.
In a new investor note sent out this week, GF Securities’ Jeff Pu and Henry Huang project that Apple will be the only major smartphone manufacturer to grow shipments in 2026, even as the global market is expected to shrink by more than 14%.
The Amazon rainforest is a crucial buffer against climate change - but deforestation had expanded under former president Jair Bolsonaro.
Bloomberg reports that Apple has hired Scott Tucker, who spent nearly six years as Meta’s vice president and deputy general counsel for global litigation.
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen to the lowest level on record.
Zelensky's relationship with US President Donald Trump deteriorated after the US eased sanctions on Moscow as part of a diesel-supply deal.
Russia strikes Kharkiv, Kramatorsk, Volyn and Rivne as Moscow presses its campaign against Ukraine's power grid.
US president's executive order comes two days before sanctions deadline and a week after diesel deal with Putin.
US President Donald Trump has waived more sanctions on Russia in a bid to ease energy prices.
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