The chatbot-like tool creates group statements that reflect majority and minority views, helping people to find areas of agreement Fancy letting a machine mediate your argument? It could be the latest ...

For decades, gross domestic product (GDP) has been the accepted yardstick for measuring a country’s prosperity, despite not placing value on activities such as childcare. Now, a rival metric, covering ...

From well-chosen words at a time of need, to practical help when you were in a tight spot: when have you benefited from the goodwill of people you don’t know? When meeting our need to feel safe, ...

The winners of this year's International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition have been announced A sunrise on the Atacama desert in Chile and an elm tree in a snow storm are among the four ...

Surrounded by concrete, in a low-ceilinged space that could optimistically described as ‘intimate’, musicians sit with bows poised, mouthpieces at the ready. They’re here to perform a prom, but this ...

Digital apps get a bad rap for disconnecting families, but one company has come up with an idea that reconnects generations by combining technology with print Once upon a time some 20bn letters were ...

There was progress on poverty, the ‘building of the year’ was revealed, and researchers offered a quick climate win, plus more good news Poverty rates hit a new low in Latin America Poverty rates in ...

Might AI yet prove a useful ally? We unpick how it’s aiding conservation efforts when it comes to forests, food, on land and at sea AI can be at its most effective when it helps match hi-tech ...

Amid the cost of living crisis, the University of York has launched a plan to address the financial and educational inequalities students face Huddled over the books and notes on her bed, Milda looked ...

Harnessing creativity, education and healing, these once-conventional farms are evolving As more UK farmers find their livelihoods under strain, and the health benefits of being in nature now ...

From storytelling and saunas to yoga, art and even outdoor theatre, a new generation of UK farmers are encouraging people to connect with nature on their patches A line of people are vanishing, one by ...

From insightfully chosen presents to the gift of an experience or simply someone’s time, what offerings have meant the most to you? Many of us have much more stuff than we’ll ever need, but giving and ...