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The International Space Station is nearing retirement, and a new space race is taking shape. Rival plans for lunar bases, commercial space stations, and dense satellite constellations are turning orbit into a crowded, contested domain. This time, the competition is not just about planting flags. It is about building long-term infrastructure in space that underpins power on Earth. On one side, a br...

In 1940, Winston Churchill made decisions in a smoky war room, surrounded by paper maps, telephone lines, and the latest tools of his age: radar screens, codebreaking reports, and bombing surveys. Today, military commanders study live drone feeds, algorithmic risk scores, and simulations generated by artificial intelligence. On some front lines, software now helps pick targets before humans even s...

Picture an American boy born in 1885. He comes into a world of horses, coal smoke, and kerosene lamps. Most work is done by hand. Most people never travel far from home. The word “computer” does not exist. Now imagine that same man blowing out 100 candles in 1985. The television hums in the corner. A jet cuts across the sky overhead. Children talk about space shuttles, nuclear war, and video games...

A new brain imaging study suggests something striking: people with more muscle and less hidden belly fat tend to have younger-looking brains. Their brains appear younger not in years on the calendar, but in the way their brain tissue appears on MRI scans. Researchers used whole-body and brain scans, plus artificial intelligence, to estimate “brain age” in over a thousand middle-aged adults. Those...

UK politics has moved from the promise of stability to a period of sharp uncertainty with surprising speed. A Labour government elected on a mandate to “turn the page” now faces questions not just about its Budget but about who might ultimately lead the country once Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are no longer the central duo at the top of British politics. The debate is no longer confined to oppo...

Global economic tremors are starting to show up in the data again. Worldwide manufacturing growth has slowed to a near-stall, even as services and consumer spending keep the broader economy just above water. At the same time, emerging economies are juggling record-high debt servicing costs and more fragile trade flows, leaving them exposed if financial conditions tighten again. The central tension...

In the months after Labour entered government, ministers promised a new era of stability, investment, and long-term growth. Yet at the same time, a different story has been unfolding in airports, on LinkedIn profiles, and in visa offices from Dublin to Sydney. More British citizens are leaving than arriving, and critics have started to talk about a “modern brain drain” from Labour’s Britain. New m...

Modern war is already online. In Ukraine and Gaza, algorithms help drones find targets, sift surveillance feeds and guide strikes even when human operators lose contact. At the United Nations, diplomats now debate not just missiles and treaties, but code, data and “human control” over digital weapons. This is the world that sets the stage for “World War Wired” – a future in which artificial intell...

In late 2025, prosecutors in the United States charged a small group of traders with secretly shipping high-end graphics processors to China. The chips at the heart of the case were designed to power cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems. They were also on a list of products that exporters are not supposed to send to Chinese buyers without a licence. The case was not an isolated incident. O...