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Scrawls on the streets of Hong Kong provide a crash course in the memes, messages and demands of the pro-democracy movement

An Insta-friendly assisted dying "pod" is on standby to deliver its first patient to the afterlife.

When Waad al-Kateab decided to start a family with her husband, her friends told her she was crazy. It was 2015 and they were living in Aleppo.

We see exceptional intelligence as a blessing. So why are so many brilliant children miserable misfits?

How did hunger for the humble vanilla pod lead to greed, crime and riches?

For more than a century we've counted on calories to tell us what will make us fat. But maybe it's time to bury the world's most misleading measure

She is 24 and Instagram is her life, even though she sometimes wishes it wasn't. But what happens when she meets a guy who doesn't feel the same way about social media?

Casper's Dreamery is the kind of thing you might see in a satirical television show about late capitalism, but I was too sleepy to be snide about it.

Everyone has heard of Vesuvius but the caldera of Campi Flegrei is a far more dangerous volcano. Helen Gordon travels to Naples to understand the enormous threat it poses.

Borrego Springs in California can survive for hours on renewable energy and batteries. It could be the perfect refuge for presidents fleeing a nuclear attack.

Russia's biggest rock star paved the way for Putinism, but has now become an obstacle to the regime.

Netflix may have overestimated the public's appetite for interactive storytelling.

Are wine connoisseurs scientists or charlatans? Dan Rosenheck experiments with the wine-tasting societies from Oxford and Cambridge to find out.

Traditional ideas of masculinity persist in the workplace, even though men are now expected to do more of the household chores — and work longer hours.

Artificial intelligence is outperforming the human sort in a growing range of fields — but how do we make sure it behaves morally?