The education department is halved overnight
Republican presidential candidates have often promised to abolish the Department of Education. In 1983 Ronald Reagan said tha...
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...
The race to elect the next head of the Olympics is heating up
On March 20th the 109 members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)—a group that includes the grand duke of Luxembourg...
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...
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...
Western companies are experimenting with DeepSeek
Two months on from its release, DeepSeek’s R1, which wowed experts and caused American tech stocks to crash in January, is st...
The importance of repetition in the workplace
If you had to define the indispensable power of a leader, which would you pick? Would it be probing intelligence? Boundless e...
More testosterone means higher pay—for some men
Testosterone replacement therapy is popular. In men with a deficiency, injections should provide pep, a stronger libido and l...
The struggle to defeat Russian censorship and propaganda
FOR the past three years Vladimir Putin has been fighting on two fronts. Just as his army has ruthlessly bombed Ukraine, his ...
Mark Carney must keep an expansionist America at bay
As Mark Carney celebrated his crushing win in the race to succeed Justin Trudeau as leader of Canada’s Liberal Party—and thus...