By Francesco Grillo, Academic Fellow, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University
Europe’s relationship with American technology increasingly resembles an addiction. The patient knows it’s bad for them but cannot quite bring themselves to break it, because they don’t not know where to start. And yet everyone agrees that the longer the addict waits, the higher the price of the addiction becomes.
That is the real question that decades of conferences on what we rhetorically call Europe’s “digital sovereignty” have talked around without ever answering.
What Europe has lost is not simply any leadership in what are called “digital markets” – it is actually…
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By Tandeep Sidhu, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba
Christopher J. Schneider, Professor of Sociology, Brandon University
Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) has dominated the cultural landscape. Uptake across various sectors, including law enforcement, quickly followed, usually with minimal foresight and little to no guardrails, like effective policies or laws, to govern AI use.
The largely unregulated use of AI in law enforcement is deeply concerning; it jeopardizes police legitimacy and could compromise the integrity of the justice system because it means the public cannot trust that
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By Nepali Times
In the longer term, Nepal will need to have an effective strategy to deal with seismic and climate change-induced disasters that are almost certainly going to increase in future.
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By Neil Saunders, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Department of Mathematical Sciences, City St George's, University of London
Once again, maths is the most popular A-level subject. There were 115,380 entries in the subject in 2026, an increase of 3.9% from 2025. Further maths AS-level entries enjoyed an 8.5% increase from 2025 as well.
Moreover, recently published data…
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By Julian L. Gallegos, Assistant Professor of Nursing, Purdue University
Wildland firefighters face heat from the environment, the fire and their own bodies as they work long, exhausting hours. The head of Purdue’s fire lab explains the health risks and what can help.
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By Ashwin R. Vasavada, Project Scientist, Mars Science Laboratory, NASA
Each day in the control room of the Curiosity rover is jam-packed with important scientific decisions, as a NASA project scientist describes.
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By Don Figer, Professor and Director of the Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory, Rochester Institute of Technology
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will take a broad survey of space and use it to create a map of the universe.
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By Khalid Beshir, Lecturer in Biomedical Science, University of East London
A mosquito bite may seem like a minor summer irritation, but it reflects a complex interaction taking place in the immune system.
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By Monica Duffy Toft, Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Navy readiness is a finite reserve that has been overstretched by a US military appetite for interventions in the past 50 years that has not tracked with a rise in danger.
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By Barry Langford, Professor of Film Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
For Willem Dafoe’s Ed, being part of an artistic coterie after decades as a forgotten poet is like the pleasurable twitch of a phantom limb.
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