The Jamaica–179th Street subway stop in Queens is only about a 10-minute walk from Wareham Place. But an abyss separates the two places. From the crowded low-rise blocks of busy shops, where spotting a white resident is difficult, to single-family homes with manicured yards on quiet streets where cars rarely pass. “Different parts of Queens were rough; this was an oasis,” Donald Trump said in a 2015 New York Times interview. This “oasis” is where the man who is now president of the United States lived as a child, in a house an anonymous family has just bought for $1.93 million.

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Thousands of protesters took to the streets on Sunday in three of Spain's holiday hotspots to oppose plans for respective airport expansions, fearing this could worsen problems with overtourism, housing and climate change.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday joined a chorus of calls to regulate AI as safety fears around the technology escalate, warning of potentially "devastating" consequences.

With the rise in popularity of AI smart glasses, such as Meta's Ray-Bans, we look at whether or not you're legally allowed to use them to film in public in Spain.

An international team of astronomers has published a detailed study of VT J1906+0849, a radio source discovered in the VLASS survey (Very Large Array Sky Survey) that doesn’t resemble anything else previously catalogued in the Milky Way. The paper, led by Jessie M. Miller of the California Institute of Technology, combines radio, infrared, optical, and […]

Un equipo internacional de astrónomos ha publicado un estudio detallado sobre VT J1906+0849, una fuente de radio descubierta en el sondeo VLASS (Very Large Array Sky Survey) que no se parece a ningún otro objeto conocido en la Vía Láctea. El trabajo, liderado por Jessie M. Miller, del Instituto de Tecnología de California, y publicado […]

The leader of Spain’s conservative PP on Sunday reiterated his party’s calls for tougher citizenship and immigration policies, stating that he wants to “completely” close the country’s borders to foreigners who "live off others" or who break the law.

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) filled his notebooks with insects: dragonflies, bees, wasps, butterflies — almost all of them winged. That focus lines up with what historians already knew about him. Leonardo was fixated on the mechanics of flight, and scholars have long read his drawings of flying insects as studies feeding into his designs for […]

Un dibujo de un escarabajo realizado por Leonardo da Vinci ha permanecido prácticamente ignorado durante siglos. La imagen, que se encuentra en el folio 36-recto del llamado Códice Arundel (MS 263), conservado en la Biblioteca Británica de Londres, representa un escarabajo de la familia de los meloidos, conocido como «escarabajo ampolla» o cantárida. Los autores […]

Of the 920,000 British citizens who had a residence permit in EU countries at the end of 2025 most of them are concentrated in three countries, new data has revealed.

A copper ingot cast somewhere in inland Sardinia during the Bronze Age might, centuries later, turn up in a Scottish tomb or a village in southern Sweden. That is the striking picture drawn by Serena Sabatini, an archaeologist at the University of Gothenburg, in a new paper that pulls together decades of isotopic analyses to […]

Un lingote de cobre fabricado en el interior de Cerdeña durante la Edad del Bronce podía terminar, siglos después de fundirse, en una tumba escocesa o en un poblado del sur de Suecia, a casi 2.000 kilómetros de donde se extrajo el mineral. Esa es la conclusión central de un artículo firmado por Serena Sabatini, […]

If you're packing up your things and heading off to start a new life in Spain, you might be wondering what happens to your credit score and if it even matters.

New legislation proposed by the European Commission this week seeks to make the recognition of professional qualifications easier for non-EU citizens, a common complaint of many who've moved to the bloc from abroad.

International headlines have been made this week by the EU and Canada announcing their mutual intention to form a deeper relationship. Mandy Pipher, The Local's resident Canadian, examines whether her compatriots would actually accept tighter ties with Europe.

Hay una frontera en algún punto entre el electrón y el ser humano donde las reglas cambian. Un átomo puede estar, según la mecánica cuántica, en dos estados a la vez —girando hacia la izquierda y hacia la derecha simultáneamente, por ejemplo—, algo que a escala humana resulta impensable. Nadie ha visto nunca una persona, […]

Somewhere between an electron and a human being, the rules of physics change. Quantum mechanics allows an atom to exist in two states simultaneously — spinning left and right at the same time, for instance — which is impossible to picture at human scale. Nobody has ever seen a person, or even a speck of […]

Un equipo de investigación liderado por C. Kotsakis, del Departamento de Geodesia y Topografía de la Universidad Aristóteles de Tesalónica (Grecia), ha desarrollado un método para medir cómo cambia la forma de la Tierra utilizando los datos de movimiento vertical del suelo que registran las estaciones GNSS (los sistemas de satélites de navegación como el […]

Iban a construir un edificio de viviendas en Ligornetto, un pequeño núcleo del cantón de Ticino pegado a la frontera con Italia, y se han encontrado con una fábrica romana de casi dos mil años. El Servicio de Arqueología de la Oficina de Bienes Culturales del cantón lleva desde junio excavando el solar de la […]