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Ageing Societies Slow Science’s Edge

Ageing societies do not only strain pensions and healthcare. They may also make science less bold, less disruptive, and more incremental over time.

A Double Visit to Earth: Comets as a Mirror of Divisions and Hope in Global Science

In October 2025, twin comets Lemmon and SWAN lit Earth’s skies — a rare event revealing global divides in access to science and discovery.

Plucked Out of Thin Air? How Meteorologists Name Storms

UK, Ireland & Netherlands unveil 2025-26 storm names, Amy, Brahm, and Chandra, chosen from 50k public suggestions to boost safety.

A New Wave of Bioethics: The Frontiers of Genetic Engineering

In 2025, genetic editing in bioethics blurs the line between therapy and enhancement, sparking ethical debates on humanity’s future.

Intellectual Exodus: American Brains Arrive on the Continent

Europe courts top American scientists fleeing political pressure, as the Netherlands and France launch academic freedom initiatives.

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Ageing Societies Slow Science’s Edge

Ageing societies do not only strain pensions and healthcare. They may also make science less bold, less disruptive, and more incremental over time.

Strategic Autonomy: How the UAE Chose to Self-Arm

Under real Iranian missile fire, the UAE learned that state security cannot be outsourced, and it has kicked off the Gulf's most ambitious arms build-up.

Idlib to Bamako: The Real Differences in Jihadist Power

Africa’s jihadist groups are gaining territory and pressure, but they still lack the cohesion, legitimacy, and state collapse that made HTS’s seizure of Damascus possible.

British Safety Laws: Chat Control to Crowd Control

Britain's child safety legislation is quietly turning into a tool against digitally-triggered communal violence, with big implications for privacy and power.

France’s Trust Crisis Moves Upward

Three stories in a single week, a murdered child, a pop icon charged with rape, and a former mayor appealing his blackmail conviction, are not the same scandal but they are feeding the same mood in France.