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Babylon’s Fall: born on a Monday, buried on Sunday Alas, poor Babylon’s Fall. The game has finally fallen down its final flight of stairs. As we reported nearly six months ago, the game’s end of life arrived at the end of February,…

There’s a hilarious illustration from Paris in late 1839, mere months after an early type of photograph called a daguerreotype was announced to the world, that warned what this tiny picture portended. In Théodore Maurisset’s imagination,…

Mona WHEN Bollywood’s ace actor Alia Bhatt embraced motherhood, she had her priorities clear. She worked through the pregnancy – promoting Darlings and Brahmastra, and filmed action…

A UC Riverside genetic discovery could turn disease-carrying mosquitoes into insect Peter Pans, preventing them from ever maturing or multiplying. In 2018, UCR entomologist Naoki Yamanaka found, contrary to accepted scientific wisdom, that…

Lloyd’s of London could leave its iconic City of London headquarters after four decades in one of the most consequential signs yet of how companies are reassessing their need for office space. The tower – designed by British architect…