On October 20th its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission lifted off from Tanegashima, an island in southern Japan. The ...

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But though Lula, as the incumbent is known, trailed Flávio in the first vote on October 4th, he is refusing to go down ...

Elon Musk said that his rocketry and electric-vehicle firms, SpaceX and Tesla, were exploring a merger, and that a tie-up was ...

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Jio, which means “live” in Hindi, carries three-fifths of India’s wireless data traffic. Since its launch in 2016, the ...

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W ITH JUST weeks until America’s midterms, polls for Democrats in red states look excellent. The party’s candidates for the ...

In 2025 there were 370 major art fairs—more than one for every day of the year. That is up from around 55 in 2000, says Clare ...

As always, the situation looks somewhat less dire from inside France than it does to outsiders. Still, who would want to ...