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A week with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang
Our weekly podcast on China. This week, we meet the CEO at the heart of the AI boom
How to cool buildings on the cheap
New paints promise to get rid of heat without using energy
School of shock: teenagers get dimmer
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The search for consciousness inside AI
More letters from readers on whether algorithms could one day wake up and feel
Uganda after Yoweri Museveni
A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist
Are teenagers growing dimmer?
The latest global school tests reveal shocking new declines
Stop turning schoolchildren into crash-test dummies
AI can help in classrooms but it needs to be treated with caution, says Andreas Schleicher, founder of the PISA test
‘Trust deficit’: Why India’s economic data has sparked a furore
India’s statistical system once commanded respect, and its data on economic and social indicators was considered rigorous – that appears to have eroded• Don’t get This is India delivered to...
Nepal says big polluters must ‘wake up’ as it calls for climate compensation over flood disaster
Foreign minister Shisir Khanal tells the Guardian the world’s biggest economies need to help Nepal, which contributes less than 0.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions Nepal is demanding $20m in...
How American universities get around the DEI backlash
Schools are relabelling offices faster than they are cutting them
Chinese carmakers are bringing their factories to the world
Incumbents will have to accelerate to compete
Satellites get a new type of armour
Composite tiles, fabrics and foams may bring effective shielding from orbital debris