Why it matters that teens are reading less
Aug 21, 2018 16:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Most of us spend much more time with digital media than we did a decade ago. But todays teens have come of age with smartphones in their pockets. Compared to teens a couple of decades ago, the way they interact with...
View from The Hill: Energy policy and Turnbull's leadership plunge into debilitating uncertainty
Aug 21, 2018 16:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The most fraught day of his prime ministership has seen the implosion of one of Malcolm Turnbulls key policy pledges to deliver certainty on energy policy that only weeks ago seemed on course. As Turnbull threw...
Knife crime: important new findings could help us understand why people carry weapons
Aug 21, 2018 16:15 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Social media, drill music and middle-class drug use have been variously blamed for the sudden increase in knife-related murders of young people in England and Wales. But not only are these assertions about why people carry...
Governor's race in Ekiti points to problems in national Nigerian poll
Aug 21, 2018 16:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
With less than 200 days to Nigerias next general election - scheduled for February 16, 2019 - there are apprehensions about how vote buying, violence and the deployment of security agents could affect the 2019 polls....
African agriculture has a lot to gain from increased access to big data
Aug 21, 2018 16:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology Economy
African scientists are about to get unprecedented access to enormous amounts of satellite data. This is thanks to a deal signed by the African Union with the European Commissions Copernicus programme, which describes...
How new Silk Road will cement China as major trading partner for Africa
Aug 21, 2018 16:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
In 138 BC China took its first step towards global connectivity with the establishment of the historical Silk Road. Zhang Qian was sent by Emperor Wudi to Central Asia to establish trade relationships. His historic...
Explainer: why some current account imbalances are fine but others are catastrophic
Aug 21, 2018 16:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business Economy
In the recent economic crises in Turkey and Argentina, there was much talk about how current account deficits played a big part in their problems. Nothing unusual in that, of course: many economic crises are associated...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects