For three and a half years, Joe Biden was wrapped in a metaphorical ball of cotton wool by an anxious White House staff eager to protect him from the worst of himself. Worried about signs of ageing and an increasing propensity for verbal missteps, they cut press conferences and media interviews to a minimum. Meetings […]
Hardware stocks are being rewarded over software for the first time in a decade thanks to the AI boom. Guillaume/Getty Images Software stocks have been slammed this year after a long period of strong performance. Meanwhile, hardware stocks are reaping the benefits of the AI boom as their profits soar. “You’re building the car and […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The sun has a powerful magnetic field that creates sunspots on the star’s surface and unleashes solar storms such as the one that bathed much of the planet in beautiful auroras this month. But exactly how […]
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin holds a glass during a ceremony of receiving diplomatic credentials from foreign ambassadors at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin Russia’s economy could begin to see major challenges in the next year-and-a-half, think tank researchers write. Putin is facing a policy “trilemma” as the nation wades through the third year of […]
Our species emerged in Africa approximately a quarter of a million years ago and quickly spread across Eurasia, and eventually around the world. We started writing things down about 5,000 years ago, only in the last 2% of our history. Everything we know of our history before that comes from the bones, the artifacts, and […]