A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Vladimir Putin’s increasingly brazen acts of aggression are designed to fray NATO’s ties. How the West chooses to respond will ...

New research into a rare pathogen has shown how a unique evolutionary trait allows it to infect even the healthiest of hosts through a smart solution to the body's immune response against it, ...

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the ...