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The Economist· 2025-08-29 15:10
What if the Amazon rainforest shrank to the point where it could no longer sustain itself? @ItsRachelDobbs investigates climate tipping-points, on “Babbage” https://t.co/cQLLfsmTRi ...
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The Economist· 2025-08-29 15:01
The chipmaker looks, in the words of many a breathless commentator, unstoppable. But Nvidia is about to come up against an immovable object—America’s power grid https://t.co/HJHd3OpuoF ...
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The Economist· 2025-08-29 14:40
The case of Edgar Lungu, the former president of Zambia, is far from the first in the region involving a cadaver and a power struggle https://t.co/KSXSCUhMNk ...
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The Economist· 2025-08-29 14:20
For decades, no college athlete in America has been paid directly by their university. That is about to change. We explain how the new system works, and how it could reshape the industry as a whole https://t.co/vu5zecwnZt ...
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The Economist· 2025-08-29 14:00
♦️ The chaos at the CDC shocks even some Republicans.♦️ Lisa Cook sues Donald Trump.♦️ The “de minimis” exemption, a tax waiver for parcels arriving in America worth less than $800, ends.Keep up with US politics https://t.co/eaF3s5ywA5 ...
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The Economist· 2025-08-29 13:40
“A dysfunctional family”, Mary Karr, an American author, once said, “is any family with more than one person in it.” Acerbic though this statement may be, it finds plenty of expression on screen https://t.co/4BOAN7yb4n ...
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The Economist· 2025-08-29 13:20
Beer and AI may seem like an unlikely pairing. Yet breweries are increasingly asking the technology for input https://t.co/gF5ABj75Op ...
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The Economist· 2025-08-29 13:02
Despite a falling-out with Donald Trump, things are looking up for Narendra Modi in the one place voters care about more than any other: their wallets https://t.co/wLLPNKe95iIllustration: Lan Truong https://t.co/4CJNWHx8Ym ...
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The Economist· 2025-08-29 13:00
Despite Hollywood’s assumptions of total carnage, the chance of gladiators dying in the ring was only one in eight. A new book provides a detailed chronicle of what their lives were actually like https://t.co/PkLXdSP9Q0 ...
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The Economist· 2025-08-29 12:40
Standing inside JUNO’s underground experiment hall feels like being in a cathedral. It has been ten years in the making. This is what it looks like https://t.co/WvMsVBph9D ...