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A brain gradually disintegrating into small particles on a pink background.
Science & Technology
AI may be messing with our memories
6:21
A child using a laptop for an online math lesson in a dimly lit room, with a colorful paper figure next to the screen.
Science & Technology
AI is rapidly changing math, and mathematicians are defining their role in the equation
6:31
A humanoid robot holding a sweater in a bright, modern living room, with a man standing nearby drinking from a cup, and large windows showing greenery outside.
DW
Not quite The Terminator, these robots still look human-like and perform tasks
5:46
A person wearing a virtual reality headset stands in front of a large illuminated sign displaying the word "Nokia" on a pink background.
DW
Nokia is back
5:05
A row of toy cars displayed indoors, featuring a prominent red toy car in the foreground with black and yellow details, alongside green, brown, and blue toy cars in the background.
Technology
In Kenya, there’s a quiet push for an electric car revolution
4:24
A speaker stands on stage at the APEC CEO Summit Korea 2025, with a large screen behind displaying the NVIDIA logo.
DW
A multi-million dollar AI data center is slated for Armenia
6:18
A large indoor trade exhibition hall with numerous booths and displays, featuring various companies and products, including a prominent BOE sign hanging from the ceiling. The floor is covered with red carpet, and there are many visitors walking around the booths.
Technology
In China, the future of transportation is already here
7:11
Illustration of a large hand holding a pencil and erasing part of a drawing depicting a crowd of people protesting.
Cybersecurity
The disappearance of Ekpar Asat
17:50
Science & Technology
Nobel laureates sound the alarm over artificial superintelligence
7:56
The value of American higher education
Europe wants to attract American scientists
4:36
Science & Technology
An AI that speaks the languages of Latin America
6:02
Global Politics
Trump administration cuts funding to Barcelona library over DEI policies
4:15
COVID-19
Here’s what to know about the new COVID variant ‘razor blade throat’
6:59
DW
A bizarre crimewave is taking place in the French capital
4:44
Climate science and solutions
Hot nights are worsening India’s heat crisis. But low-tech solutions show some promise.
6:17
The Big Fix
Ontario approves $15 billion plan to build small modular nuclear reactors
6:36
Science & Technology
A Soviet spacecraft is expected to make a crash landing on Earth this week. But nobody knows where — yet.
5:24
Transportation
Spain tests AI-based speed limit system
4:58
Cybersecurity
Kremlin’s internet crackdown is taking on YouTube
6:19
Sacred Spaces
Conservators scan Ukraine’s wooden churches to help preserve them
6:38
Uncategorized
Escape from Bamban: One man’s scam farm nightmare in the Philippines
13:15
Environment
Why a megacity in India is reviving the humble water well
5:56
Science & Technology
Seafood cultivated in a lab could help mitigate the next pandemic
7:38
facade of one-story home
The Big Fix
New project seeks to solve housing crisis using mushroom byproduct and troublesome weed
4:39
Cybersecurity
Meet Antibot4Navalny: the mysterious researchers exposing Russia’s war on truth
10:29
Internet
This club in the Netherlands offers a much-needed break from technology
5:23
Hacking
Meet the guy who single-handedly took down North Korea’s internet
9:00
Cyber warfare
A wrinkle in time: GPS jamming in Ukraine and its ripple effects
12:51
Cybersecurity
The company man: US glacial response to Nigeria’s detention of former IRS crypto investigator rankles federal agents
12:08
Mazatlán draws a lot of tourists — mainly from Mexico —  who come for the beaches, great food and a party scene. But thanks to the April 8 total eclipse, thousands came from all over the world, including many scientists and astronomy enthusiasts. 
Science
A total solar eclipse in Mazatlán draws thousands of international tourists 
Screenshot from Rapémathematiques
Education
What rhymes with isosceles triangle? This French math teacher has the answer.
Illustration by Megan J. Goff
Hacking
Inside the i-Soon papers and China’s secret world of hackers-for-hire
a student stands with her arms crossed in front of a domed building on MIT's campus
The World's Global Classroom
On campus, Jewish and Muslim students fear for their safety
A buffalo grazes on the drenched land in the Cardamom Mountains, southwest Cambodia.
Human rights
‘It’s a lose-lose situation’: Carbon ‘offset’ project in Cambodia accused of human rights violations
A view of the process on a montior as lab staff use a microscope stand and articulated hand controls to extract cells from 1-7 day old embryos that are then checked for viability at the Aspire Houston Fertility Institute in vitro fertilization lab in Hous
Reproductive rights
Why an international court struck down Costa Rica’s IVF ban
Black blue and gray illustration of people coming out of phones
Hacking
Spyware found on phones in Jordan
Bohdan Danyliv is the drone project coordinator with the Prytula Foundation, a Kyiv-based non-profit that helps provide equipment for the Ukrainian military.
Ukraine
‘War of drones’: Ukrainians step up drone production in fight against Russia
Inside of a computer
Cybersecurity
Countries fear state-sponsored cyberwar
Air quality levels have been bad in Accra since December as harmattan season kicks in across Ghana. The data coming in shows the situation is not improving.
Climate Change
Hazy skies over Accra: Harsh harmattan season in Ghana leads to health hazards, poor air quality
a multiple-exposure photo of insects flying around a light
Science & Technology
The surprising reason why insects circle lights at night: They lose track of the sky
Illustration by Megan J. Goff
Cybersecurity
Threat-hunter says Iran is stepping up the sophistication of its cyberattacks
Uganda Women Birders tackles limiting gender taboos by giving women the experience and resources they need to prove they can do the job.
Jobs
‘Birds are everywhere!’ Women bird guides in Uganda set a global example
Blue, gray and white illustration of flys in cage
Global Security
China’s dominant role in producing hacking bugs
Sea-level rise and storms made stronger by climate change threaten communities across coastal Bangladesh.
Climate Change
‘They forgot about me’: People with disabilities in Bangladesh face increased risk during natural disasters
Illustration of a destroyed library.
Ukraine
Saving Ukraine’s cultural heritage with a click
illustration of a drone
Ukraine
Exclusive: Inside Ukraine’s secret drone factories
Screenshot from "Prehistoric Planet" on YouTube.
Arts, Culture & Media
For ‘dinosaur music,’ prehistoric instruments set the tone
Two young Panamanians view the solar eclipse.
Sacred Nation
‘The cosmovision of our ancestors’: Panama witnesses first solar eclipse in 25 years
cows in the wild
Rewilding in Spain brings back ancient bovine
A fox stands along a street in the Central London, Wednesday, March. 1, 2023. 
Environment
London’s foxes: Pesky pests or celebrated survivors?
On the outer edge of a bog in Kohlhütte nature reserve, the land is drier than it used to be. Once, this dirt would have been more like thick mud.
Climate Change
In Germany’s Black Forest and beyond, a quiet loss of biodiversity
Urchin perch on live coral (left) with fossil coral, the foundation of the live reef, in the foreground, live reef in the background.
Climate Change
Galapagos discovery offers clues to climate impact on deep-sea corals
Akureyri is one of the few places in Iceland with forest.
The Big Fix
This small Icelandic city thinks big about going green
illustration
Ukraine
Exclusive: Inside an American hunt forward operation in Ukraine
man sits at a computer monitor
Ukraine
Young Russian game designers find a new home in Serbia
cars on streets
Development
90% of the cars on Ghana’s roads are imported used cars. Many are polluting or unsafe.
Black, blue and grey illustration of man looking over small figures
Hacking
The hacker Bassterlord in his own words: Portrait of an access broker as a young man
In this Jan. 20, 2017, file photo, residents walk through the destruction of the once rebel-held Salaheddine neighborhood in the eastern Aleppo, Syria. 
Rebel reliance: Part II
Customers get out their smartphones and go silent as Shizuo Mori begins his pudding-fling serving technique that made him a viral sensation.
Food
This 80-year-old pudding maker in Tokyo goes viral for his flan-flinging flair
woman at computer
The World's Global Classroom
‘Out of reach’: Over 40 academic editors leave global publishing company they say overcharged to publish their work