Category: Technology

Imagine living in a place where a single drought, hurricane, or mudslide can wipe out your food supply. Across Africa, many communities do exactly that – navigate climate shocks like floods, heatwaves, and failed harvests. What’s often overlooked in the development policies to tackle these threats is a powerful sources of insight: Africa’s own history. […]

One hundred years after a Tennessee teacher named John Scopes started a legal battle over what the state’s schools can teach children, Americans are still divided over evolution. Scopes was charged with violating Tennessee law by teaching evolution, in a highly publicised July 1925 trial that led to national debate over evolution and education. The […]

In today’s world, the line between online and offline is increasingly being blurred, especially for children and teens. Navigating this space safely can be a challenge. Klavdija Berginc, a maths and computer science teacher at a primary school in Kobarid, Slovenia, has witnessed this struggle up close over more than a decade in the classroom. […]

📍 Memphis, Tennessee — July, 2025Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has raised a combined $10 billion—split evenly between debt and strategic equity—to accelerate development of its Grok chatbot and expand its AI infrastructure, according to Morgan Stanley. The funding marks one of the largest private capital raises in the AI sector to date, bringing […]

Have you ever wondered how wild birds cope with baking hot afternoons and freezing cold mornings? Our new study has taken a close look at one of Africa’s most familiar birds – the helmeted guineafowl – and uncovered surprising answers about how they deal with extreme temperatures. The helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris) is a common […]

📍 Harwell, Oxfordshire — July 11, 2025The UK government has announced a landmark £670 million investment in quantum computing, providing a 10-year funding settlement for the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC)—the first of its kind in the country. The funding aims to accelerate breakthroughs in healthcare, cybersecurity, clean energy, and transport, positioning the UK as […]

Many years ago, long before the internet or artificial intelligence, an American engineer called Vannevar Bush was trying to solve a problem. He could see how difficult it had become for professionals to research anything, and saw the potential for a better way. This was in the 1940s, when anyone looking for articles, books or […]

It was US president Harry S. Truman who, in the years just after the second world war, kept a little wooden sign on his desk which read: “The buck stops here!”. It emphasised his willingness to accept ultimate responsibility for his decisions and actions as president, even the ones that didn’t quite work out. This […]

The Wimbledon tennis tournament in 2025 has brought us familiar doses of scorching sunshine and pouring rain, British hopes and despair, and the usual queues, strawberries and on-court stardust. One major difference with this year’s tournament, however, has been the notable absence of human line judges for the first time in 147 years. In a […]

Since early January 2025, residents of Birmingham in the UK have been caught in the dispute between the city council and the Unite union over pay, terms and conditions for waste and recycling collectors. The latest attempt at talks broke down in acrimony. At one point during the crisis, there were 17 tonnes of uncollected […]