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Beyond the Solar System, out there in the wider galaxy, a very strange subset of exoplanets exists. Called hot Jupiters, these are majorly clingy – hugging so close to their host stars, theyre not just intensely hot, but also likely warped by gr

“The exoplanet seems to be spiraling away from its star, an unexpected finding given the power of [its sun’s] gravitational pull.”

It's the first clearly deformed planet outside the solar system that we know thus far.

When President Kais Saied seized power in July, he vowed to rescue the failing economy. Tunisians are still waiting for him to fulfill that pledge.

Previous records, recorded in the 1980s, were in the low to high 40s, but temperatures typical sit in the 30s this time of year. Alaska is warming faster than any other US state due to climate change.

© Marie Sorribas / PSL Alain Fuchs, an EPFL graduate in chemical engineering, is a leading figure in France’s research landscape. He served as

By Ishac Diwan and Ibrahim ElbadawiCAIRO — The 2019 power-sharing agreement between Sudan’s civilian and military leaders, which envisaged a transition to a democratic order following the overthrow of Omar Al Bashir’s rule, was never going to be easy to implement. But following last month’s military coup, the question now is whether democracy is still even on the agenda at all.

Ishac Diwan is the Chaire d'Excellence Monde Arabe at Paris Sciences et Lettres. He received his PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He taught international finance at NYU's Business School from 1984-87. In 1987, he joined the World Bank's Research Complex, where he focused on international finance, trade, and macroeconomics. In 1992, with the coming of the Oslo Agreements, he joined the World Bank’s Middle East Department, first as the country econom...

The French Oil giant Total was so aware of human-induced global warming it published an article on it in the company internal magazine in 1971

School of Biological Sciences professor and Tom and Marie Patton Chair heads to France to hold Blaise Pascal International Chair of Excellence, continue virus research, and teach