Cycling: The untapped potential for improving our health (and the climate)

May 08, 2024 11:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

When the French government recently announced a plan to cut state spending by 10 billion euros, the budget for ecology, development and sustainable mobility was first on the chopping block, with cuts totalling 2.2 billion...

Can I take your order – and your data?

May 08, 2024 11:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Technology

You might have seen viral videos of Wendys drive-thru customers in the United States ordering their fast food from the firms generative AI bot Wendys FreshAI. Most show a very human-like transaction punctuated with cries...

Future pandemics will have the same human causes as ancient outbreaks

May 08, 2024 10:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

The last pandemic was bad, but COVID-19 is only one of many infectious diseases that emerged since the turn of this century. Since 2000, the world has experienced 15 novel Ebola epidemics, the global spread of a...

Supporting ‘democracy’ is hard for many who feel government and the economy are failing them

May 05, 2024 10:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Americans, it seems, can both value the idea of democracy and not support it in practice. Since 2016, academics and journalists have expressed concerns that formerly secure democracies are becoming less democratic....

To make AI safe, governments must regulate data collection

May 05, 2024 08:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced a $2.4-billion investment in artificial intelligence. Part of the funding will create an AI Safety Institute. But what is AI safety? Many countries, including...

Kenya’s devastating floods expose decades of poor urban planning and bad land management

May 03, 2024 00:04 am UTC| Insights & Views

Floods in Kenya killed at least 169 people between March and April 2024. The most catastrophic of these deaths occurred after a flash flood swept through a rural village killing 42 people. Death and destruction have also...

Space Science Series

China set to blast off to the far side of the Moon – here’s what it could discover

May 03, 2024 00:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Business

China is attempting to recover the first ever soil and rock samples from the lunar far side. The surface mission, Change 6, named after the Chinese Moon goddess Change, is a predecessor to the successful sample return...