Like it or not, but nations and civilisations are progressing exactly by such traumatic leaps and bounds, and every post-war ...

Inside Coke's covert campaign to downplay the risks of sugary soda. A new book shows how the company misled America.

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Alex Karp and other tech moguls in Trump’s orbit are pushing a terrifying vision for the future of US military power.

Environmentalist and author Paul Hawken speaks to Live Science about the worldview that has led to the mindless exploitation ...

On March 15, in the largest protest in its history, around 1,000 Greenlanders protested outside the U.S. consulate against ...

Countries, including the United States, cutting down funding for life-saving global health projects could jeopardize vaccination programs that protect children and adults from deadly diseases, the ...

But foreign aid is not charity. It is the United States’ insurance policy, protecting us from bird flu, ebola, violent terrorism, illegal migration and political instability. USAID provides 200,000 ...

John Green's new non-fiction book "Everything is Tuberculosis" is out now. The Indiana author is best known for his YA novels like "The Fault in Our Stars." ...

Author Abdulrazak Gurnah was a surprise winner of the Nobel prize for his multigenerational saga of displacement and loss during the colonization of East Africa called Afterlives. He's back with a new ...