Why US offshore wind energy is struggling
May 11, 2024 12:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business
Americas first large-scale offshore wind farms began sending power to the Northeast in early 2024, but a wave of wind farm project cancellations and rising costs have left many people with doubts about the industrys future...
Doing a job you find meaningful is great – until it consumes your life
May 11, 2024 12:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Securing a job that you find meaningful work that you think is significant and value positively may be one of your most important career goals. But there can be a negative side to doing work that youre passionate...
Divesting university endowments: Easier demanded than done
May 11, 2024 10:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Campus protests expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people and objecting to Israels military campaign in Gaza include many calls for universities and colleges to divest a word that basically means sell any of...
New faith schools in England could soon allocate all their places on religious grounds
May 09, 2024 08:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
The government has proposed dropping the cap on faith admissions for new and existing free faith schools in England. This would mean that oversubscribed faith schools in this category those established as new academies,...
May 09, 2024 08:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
For the 2022 midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Alabama to use congressional districts that violated the law and diluted the voting power of Black citizens. A 5-4 vote by the Supreme Court in February...
Reducing energy demand and improving efficiency will help prevent the next gas crisis
May 09, 2024 08:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Gas prices have relaxed, Europe has come out of the winter with record gas storage levels and a surfeit of liquefied natural gas is set to reach the shores of Europe over the coming years. Many commentators are hopeful...
May 09, 2024 08:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Minimum wage policies are typically aimed at reducing poverty. Yet there is little direct evidence of this effect, especially in developing countries. And none for South Africa. In a recent paper, we consider the...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US student Gaza protests: five things that have been missed
Will Solomon Islands’ new leader stay close to China?
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects