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We design cities and buildings for earthquakes and floods — we need to do the same for wildfires
As built-up areas encroach on natural ones, we need new strategies for dealing with the impact of wildfires on buildings and ...
Why bystanders defend bad behaviour at work — even when they know it’s wrong
When mistreatment seems inevitable — when people think “that’s just how things work around here” — bystanders face a ...
Tracking apps monitor remote employees’ performance — and invade their privacy
The use of employee monitoring applications has grown since the COVID-19 pandemic, but these apps can invade a worker’s ...
Eating wild meat carries serious health risks – why it still happens along the Kenya-Tanzania border
Wild meat is a known source of zoonotic infections and disease spillover to humans. In fact, as many as three-quarters of ...
African prisoners made sound recordings in German camps in WW1: this is what they had to say
African prisoners in German camps were studied by ethnographers, who recorded their voices. What they had to say is poignant ...
Why Kissinger would have been a Fortnite champ − and other foreign policy lessons from the gaming world
A political scientist – with a penchant for gaming – explains how Minecraft, League of Legends and Civilization VII can help ...
Germany’s chancellor thinks his fellow citizens need to work harder. Here’s why he’s wrong
Well, that’s what the country’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, thinks. And this controversial claim has triggered a debate ...
Debates over presidential power to suspend habeas corpus resurface in Trump administration
Does Donald Trump have the power to suspend a foundational legal right to challenge a person’s arrest and detention?
Ocean mud locks up much of the planet’s carbon – we’re digging deep to map these ancient stores
Vast amounts of organic carbon settle on the seafloor each year, coming from decaying marine life and from living (or once ...
The UK is gearing up for autonomous warfare – but missing the reality of war today
The UK is facing a security crisis. Great power competition has returned, and the threat of hostility from Russia, China, ...
Golden Dome dangers: An arms control expert explains how Trump’s missile defense threatens to make the US less safe
Missile defense systems are nothing new. History shows that even if they work as advertised – a big if – they’re a bad idea ...
African countries are bad at issuing bonds, so debt costs more than it should: what needs to change
African countries can move from being price takers to price negotiators. They should be able to reduce debt costs, freeing up ...