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Francesca MarcheseBusiness reporterAmerSuperyachts are getting ever larger as buyers want more spaceBusiness is booming in the luxury world of superyachts, with the super-rich wanting ever bigger…

Rocks in Canada Are Confirmed as World’s OldestIn 2008 scientists reported that rocks in Canada were the world’s oldest. New data appear to confirm this contested…

I was born in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, when religion became the architecture of public life. But it was precisely this fusion of faith…

Damp carpet and old coffee. That is how a perfumier might have described the “top notes”—industry speak for the initial olfactory experience—at SIMPPAR, the annual fragrance-ingredient…

The world’s largest banks boosted the amount of financing given to fossil fuel companies last year, committing $869bn to those involved in coal, oil and gas…

It doesn’t look like much, but Finland recently flipped the switch on the world’s largest sand-based battery. Yes, sand. A sand battery is a type of…

This is a spoiler-free preview of the first five episodes of season three.Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ended its second season with arguably the single strongest…

It’s been 70 years since Disneyland opened its gates, and the original Disney park is now celebrating its anniversary. As Walt Disney himself predicted, Disneyland will “never…

Consumers outside Brazil may not be familiar with JBS, even though many will have tasted its products. But as the meat-packing colossus prepared to list on…

The biggest temperature increases were recorded in the Middle East, West Asia, northeast Russia, and north Canada.This year, the world experienced its second-warmest month of May…