By Peter Lee, Professor of Applied Ethics and Director, Security and Risk Research, University of Portsmouth
Britain’s Defence Investment Plan (DIP) marks a significant shift in military priorities. Over four years, an additional £15 billion will take spending up to £298 billion overall.
This includes £63 billion to fund nuclear deterrence and £8 billion for future combat aircraft. But its most attention-grabbing headline concerns the maritime domain.
Plans for the Type 83 destroyer to replace ageing Type 45s have been shelved. Instead, at least six Common…
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By John J. Martin, Assistant Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University
A huge amount of money flows into campaigns in the United States. For 20 years, the Supreme Court has been loosening rules for who can contribute and how much. It just loosened the rules again.
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By Samantha Lawler, Associate Professor, Astronomy, University of Regina
Aaron Boley, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia
Sarah Thiele, Graduate Student, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
Skye Heiland, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia
How prepared are we for a solar storm, bad software update or cybersecurity event that could trigger widespread loss of satellite control?
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By R. Grant Gilmore III, Director, Historic Preservation and Community Planning Program, College of Charleston
The American Revolution was won not just by ideals and armies, but by the strategic trade networks of a small Caribbean port.
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By Michael Bruening, Professor of History, Missouri University of Science and Technology
William Tyndale’s translation, published in 1526, was based on a then-radical idea: Anyone should be able to read the Bible in their own language.
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By Iqbal Akhtar, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Executive Director of The East-West Foundation, Florida International University
Muslims were woven into both America’s founding population and its labor force, writes a scholar of Islam on the nation’s 250th anniversary.
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By Mark Axelrod, Professor of Environmental and Resource Governance, Michigan State University
Detailed data is useful for understanding and addressing environmental effects on people’s lives in ways that become difficult or impossible if only the broadest and blurriest picture is developed.
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By Anne Toomey McKenna, Affiliated Faculty Member, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, Penn State
The World Cup is bringing visitors and AI-driven surveillance systems, but only one of those is certain to leave when the games are done.
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By Blessings Masuku, Postdoc Fellow, University of Pretoria
Colleta Gandidzanwa, Researcher in Agricultural Economics, University of Pretoria
From roadside plots to community gardens, urban farmers in Alexandra township, South Africa are growing food, earning income and coping with climate change.
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By Timothy Krupnik, Director - CGIAR Scaling for Impact, CGIAR
The world’s food systems face real and urgent challenges. These include climate change, nutrition insecurity, food safety, and unequal access to markets. Research has produced practical solutions to each of these that could benefit hundreds of millions of people. Too few are moved into widespread use.
For years, the development sector has flattered itself with pilots.
A new tool works in a controlled pilot, a crop variety performs well in a field trial, and a digital advisory service shows promise in early testing. Evidence is written up, a case study or experiment is published,…
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