After this week’s prediction of electoral wipeout, it’s every Conservative for themselves, says the Spectator’s political editor, Katy Balls

Will 2024 be the year the Conservative Party loses Downing Street? Or will Rishi Sunak cling to power? Have your say

Tory alarm over prediction of election landslide defeat, as PM faces showdown vote on key ‘stop the boats’ pledge

Tech giant among others – including Amazon and Meta – to cut workforce as business predictions slowed down in the past year

Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss the big stories likely to hit the headlines and share their predictions for 2024

Jesse Watters welcomed ‘the English psychic’ on his show to reveal her predictions for the 2024 presidential election

The environmental scientist, whose book Not the End of the World offers a data-based analysis of the climate crisis, on being informed and engaged without succumbing to despair

predictions are that generally house prices will fall in 2024 but some experts say certain areas will buck the trend

Will KJ-T strike Olympic gold? Will Sunak go for an early election? How much will Taylor Swift fans bring to the UK economy? From tech to fashion, food to politics, the Observer’s top writers predict who and what will make the headlines

Many have got their hopes up for a white Christmas

The predictions are limited to just one corner though

A living artificial intelligence hardware approach that uses the adaptive reservoir computation of biological neural networks in a brain organoid can perform tasks such as speech recognition and nonlinear equation prediction.

Fire severity is expected to increase as a result of warming. This will potentially amplify climate change due to its impact on the carbon cycle. This Review discusses ecosystem carbon loss and recovery following wildfire, and highlights where furthe ...

A new study from researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine shows that dopamine release in the human brain plays a crucial role in encoding both reward and punishment prediction errors.

“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is the one to beat, but Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron” should land a spot along with three surprising underdogs: “Elemental,” “Wish,” and…

On a 51-ion quantum simulator, we investigate locality of entanglement Hamiltonians for a Heisenberg chain, demonstrating Bisognano–Wichmann predictions of quantum field theory applied to lattice many-body systems, and observe the transition from a ...

At the start of this year, trying to be contrarian, I wagered a good lunch that Rishi Sunak would confound predictions and win the next election. My thesis was

 

We may have to wait a little longer to get our hopes up for a white Christmas

The Money Saving Expert was looking at the latest Ofgem cost cap predictions