Flight to greener aviation fuel has hit turbulence – here's why

Feb 27, 2017 08:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Business

When it comes to reducing carbon emissions, one of the biggest hurdles is the worlds addiction to flying. And this is only going to get more intense as developing countries grow bigger middle classes who want to explore...

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Thieves in the night: can a slogan trigger real improvement in Romanian politics?

Feb 27, 2017 08:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

It is rather unusual for a country like Romania to catch the eye of the international public to the extent it has in the past month. An unprecedented wave of protests saw thousands of Romanians take to the streets...

Global Geopolitics Series

After a tense election, Ecuador is divided over its political future

Feb 27, 2017 08:50 am UTC| Insights & Views

After three tense days of waiting, Ecuadors National Electoral Council has confirmed that former vice president Lenin Moreno, of the ruling Alianza Pais (AP) party, won the first round in the countrys presidential...

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Sons of Iraq: Mosul will only recover if we heed the lessons of the US invasion

Feb 27, 2017 08:42 am UTC| Insights & Views

After months of fighting, Iraqi Security Forces have finally regained control of the eastern half of Mosul, the last urban stronghold of Islamic State in Iraq. They are now advancing on the citys west. The recapture of...

Cybersecurity of the power grid: A growing challenge

Feb 25, 2017 13:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology

Called the largest interconnected machine, the U.S. electricity grid is a complex digital and physical system crucial to life and commerce in this country. Today, it is made up of more than 7,000 power plants, 55,000...

Artificial intelligence: here's what you need to know to understand how machines learn

Feb 25, 2017 13:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology

From Jeopardy winners and Go masters to infamous advertising-related racial profiling, it would seem we have entered an era in which artificial intelligence developments are rapidly accelerating. But a fully sentient being...

Threats of violent Islamist and far-right extremism: What does the research say?

Feb 25, 2017 13:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

On a Tuesday morning in September 2001, the American experience with terrorism was fundamentally altered. Two thousand, nine hundred and ninety-six people were murdered in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Thousands...