Ukraine’s embrace of drone warfare has paid off
IT HAS become a cliché to note that the war in Ukraine is a drone war. But two recent studies shed light on what that means i...
The race is on to build the world’s most complex machine
Few would expect the future of artificial intelligence (AI) to depend on Eindhoven, a quiet Dutch town. Yet just beyond its b...
Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator
Semiconductor chips are among the smallest and most detailed objects humans can manufacture. Shrinking the scale and upping t...
DOGE comes to England’s health service
IT WAS NOT only a decapitation but also a disembowelment. Fittingly for British public servants, the death of the arm’s-lengt...
Elon Musk’s antics are not the only problem for Tesla
Friends help each other out. Tesla’s boss, Elon Musk, may well have been grateful when Donald Trump said he would buy one of ...
Will Vladimir Putin really agree to stop his killing machine?
THE BALL, so America’s secretary of state said on March 11th, is back in Vladimir Putin’s court. Ukraine had just agreed at t...
Trump’s erratic policy is harming the reputation of American assets
PRESIDENT DONALD Trump’s bullying of America’s allies and neighbours may appeal to the maga base. Unfortunately, investors fe...
NATO’s race against Russia to rearm
AS A YOUNG naval fighter pilot operating from a French carrier during the Kosovo war in 1999, Lieutenant Pierre Vandier would...
An ex-head of the FTC and his co-author lament the politicisation of antitrust enforcement
FOR DECADES America and Britain have told the world that for a competition-law regime to be effective and legitimate, it must...
Is Putin ready to accept a truce with Ukraine?
On March 12th Vladimir Putin donned military camouflage to visit his troops in the Kursk region, where his forces seem to be ...