In 2024 we found new ways to cover a range of topics, from war to the future of energy—and, of course, elections.

Potatoes have been a staple of humans’ diets for millennia, but it took time for the crisp to take its slender shape. The tuberous vegetable was fried in lard in Regency England—and sliced and dunked ...

The robust-looking outer covering is in fact a millimetre-thin “skin” of aluminium alloy covering a metal frame, insulated ...

E VERY NOVEMBER we publish our annual predictive guide to the coming year, The World Ahead. In this year’s edition, our ...

At the bottom of the chart are the fundamental particles—quarks, bosons (eg Higgs, w +, w -, z ), protons, neutrons, ...

Hock Tan of Broadcom, which joined the trillion-dollar club on December 13th, does not fit neatly into either category. The ...

The inability of Russia, which has Europe’s biggest air force with roughly 600 warplanes, to operate freely over Ukraine has ...

Boosting LNG exports ought to have been a point of policy agreement between Messrs Trump and Biden. The former had championed ...

Many teenagers pick up ideas from online pornography, which is as accurate a guide to real sex as James Bond films are to the ...

The Economist tries “slow journalism” with Paul Salopek ...

Toyosu, where Mr Yamazaki has worked since it opened, is the biggest fish market in the world. It employs around 42,000 ...

The raging, reptilian creature, somewhere between lizard and dinosaur, was given a lumbering gait, a long tail and powerful ...