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How much water does AI consume?
We take a deep dive into AI’s water consumption
Paul Ehrlich: The man who bet England wouldn’t exist by the year 2000
Why Paul Ehrlich’s dire predictions about a population collapse failed to materialise
Transgender women in sport: Does ‘comparable’ mean ‘equal’?
Investigating a scientific paper analysing the strength and fitness of transgender women
US-Israel war with Iran: Do the gulf states have enough interceptor missiles?
What we know about missile stockpiles following the US-Israeli strikes on Iran
Has a company really discovered a million new species?
Investigating whether Basecamp Research found hundreds of thousands of bacteria species
Did AI researchers let AI hallucinations into scientific papers?
Investigating a claim that 100 made-up claims were found in AI papers
Is an ancient charioteer the best paid sportsperson of all time?
Did a Roman charioteer really earn the equivalent of $15 billion dollars?
Is this Premier League striker a secret maths genius?
Is Chelsea’s Liam Delap a maths genius? Or has he got a trick up his sleeve?
Could Europe use its financial muscle to strong-arm the US?
Europe holds trillions of dollars of US shares and bonds - but can they use them?
Is Greenland as big as Africa?
Tim Harford asks if Greenland is really as vast as most maps seem to suggest
