Data centres in space: they’re a brilliant idea, but a herculean challenge: Be under no illusions … Frame Stock Footage/Shutterstock Data centres are the backbone of our digital infrastructure, supporting everything from social media platforms to online shopping and streaming services. With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing and the internet of things, …
COP28 agreement on adapting to climate change kicks the real challenge down the road: Ariful Azmi Usman/Shutterstock COP28 concluded late on Wednesday morning to a mixed reaction. The Dubai agreement extracted a promise from nearly 200 countries to transition away from fossil fuels, but it leaves many questions unanswered when it comes to keeping global …
Offering oil and gas licences every year distracts from the challenge of winding down UK North Sea: New areas for oil and gas development on the UK’s North Sea continental shelf are to be made available through annual licensing rounds subject to net zero tests. These proposals by the UK government, outlined in the 2023 …
The burials that could challenge historians’ ideas about Anglo-Saxon gender: Saxon burial mound in Taplow, England. mbarredo/Shutterstock There are a significant number of Anglo-Saxon burials where the estimated anatomical sex of the skeleton does not align with the gender implied by the items they were buried with. Some bodies identified as male have been buried …
How to challenge toxic behaviour and help someone being bullied or harassed at work: fizkes/Shutterstock The average person will spend more than 3,500 days at work, so toxic behaviour in the workplace can have a big impact on your wellbeing. Whether it’s the sexual assault of a theatre nurse by a senior surgeon, harassment at …
Young people are abandoning news websites – new research reveals scale of challenge to media: shutterstock Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock The crisis in journalism caused by the traditional news media’s struggles to cope with the digital revolution has been well documented over many years. But news organisations now face a much more fundamental change driven by generations who …
The ‘Murph’ challenge: what to know about this CrossFit workout: Dusan Petkovic/Shutterstock Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg recently shared on Facebook and Instagram that he had completed the “Murph” challenge, which is named for Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy, who was killed in Afghanistan in June 2005, aged 29. This gruelling CrossFit workout involves running one mile, …
African architects challenge Venice exhibition to decolonise and start new conversations: Ghanaian-born curator of the biennale, Lesley Lokko. Jacopo Salvi/La Biennale di Venezia Presented since 1979, the Venice Architecture Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) is possibly the most influential architecture exhibition in the world. For the first time, this year’s edition is curated by an …
Belfast has more peace walls now than 25 years ago – removing them will be a complex challenge: Since the first paramilitary ceasefires in 1994, the Northern Ireland peace process has addressed a series of contentious issues. Prisoners have been released, weapons decommissioned. Policing and power sharing have been discussed. Quite how the conflict shaped …
How to poll 93 million voters – the challenge of pulling off Nigeria’s presidential elections: Voters display their permanent voters card during the 2019 Presidential and National Assembly elections in Lagos. Adekunle Ajayi/NurPhoto via Getty Images Nigeria’s electorate, which the Independent National Electoral Commission put at 93.5 million on the voters’ register, are expected to …
Global inequality must fall to maintain a safe climate and achieve a decent standard of living for all – it’s a huge challenge: Energy consumption is essential for human wellbeing, but there is enormous inequality in energy use worldwide. The top 10% of global energy consumers use roughly 30 times more energy than the bottom …
Turkey-Syria earthquake: the challenge of delivering aid in a disaster zone: It’s the middle of the night and you are fast asleep. Suddenly you have ceiling plaster smashing down on you, pictures are falling off the walls and your bedroom is swaying. You wake your partner, grab the kids and make your way down a …
Human challenge studies: what we’ve learned from intentionally infecting people with COVID: neative/Shutterstock When COVID began to spread rapidly in 2020, sending the UK and other countries into lockdowns, many people asked what they could do to help. While millions of people found novel ways to help others in their communities, a large number became …
Married to the mob: what the lives of two Camorra women tell us about how to challenge the power of the mafia: I told the judge: “Dottore, I’m on the first floor. If they want to retaliate again, they know where to find me … All the lives they’ve taken from me – they took …
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Iran: ‘hijab’ protests challenge legitimacy of Islamic Republic: Giving the regime the finger: students protest in Isfahan, Iran. Reddit Three weeks after the violent death of 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s morality police for the crime of wearing her hijab improperly, protests continue to rage across the country. These …