A study in France shows a striking gender gap within the first months of school https://t.co/tDbkmQOilR ...

Firms that adopt generative AI in America and Britain tend to hire fewer junior white-collar workers, according to recent studies from Stanford, Harvard and King’s College London. At the same time, interest in skilled manual jobs is growing https://t.co/iU4RW3vg0OPhoto: Getty Images ...

America is demanding ever more of Asian allies while promising ever less. That leaves governments in the region wondering how to hedge against their worst fear: Trumpian abandonment https://t.co/kvlcSE3vEZ ...

The shape of a Denisovan skull suggests an evolutionary history at odds with genetic data. That could flip everything palaeontologists think they knew about human origins on its head https://t.co/Y1KGHQHV6i ...

Brazil is betting on oil from a new frontier to revive its depleting reserves. But locals are worried about drilling near one of the world’s least-studied and most biodiverse regions https://t.co/hxiqZOG7it ...

Many people worry about overpopulation. But an increasing number, especially in rich countries, fret about demographic shrinkage. There are several reasons to doubt the doomsayers https://t.co/A8iTdVvgrV ...

Tooth-brushing reigns supreme. But fluoride in tap water is a good safety net https://t.co/IfFba5d5ty ...

Society bombards us with instructions to be happier, fitter and richer. Why have we become so dissatisfied with being ordinary? https://t.co/EcAkG6sM58 ...

There are grinchy ways of getting around the American tariffs on Chinese goods. Dismembering Father Christmas and then shipping his head, limbs and torso to South-East Asia is one such ruse https://t.co/V7h9M29iV0 ...

If the Gaza peace deal turns out to be a worthless piece of paper, that will bode poorly for the deals Donald Trump is trying to negotiate elsewhere. America’s credibility is on the line https://t.co/B1s915wHyX ...