Things to watch beyond the main speeches from leaders at this week’s high-level meeting of…
Directed Energy Weapons Shoot Painful but Non-Lethal Beams – Are Similar Weapons Behind the Havana Syndrome?
The latest episodes of so-called Havana syndrome, a series of unexplained ailments afflicting U.S. and Canadian diplomats and spies, span the globe. They include two diplomats in Hanoi, Vietnam – which disrupted…
China Attending Virtual Meeting on Afghanistan
China says it will attend a virtual meeting of Central and South Asian state leaders to discuss the situation in Afghanistan. The meeting of members of the China and Russia dominated Shanghai…
Russia Votes in Parliament Election Without Main Opposition
After a few weeks of desultory campaigning but months of relentless official moves to shut down significant opposition, Russia is holding three days of voting this weekend in a parliamentary election that is…
Missing People Fall Through the Cracks After Government Cuts
Police forces in England say the potential for significant harm to people who go missing is rising after decades of cuts to police budgets, rising demand and lack of training. In the…
Minerals, Drugs and China: How the Taliban Might Finance Their New Afghan Government
Now that the Taliban have reportedly taken full control of Afghanistan and begun forming a government, a looming challenge awaits: How will they keep their country and economy afloat financially? For the…
Could Social Network Analysis Be a Useful Tool to Disarticulate Criminal Networks?
Finding the broken link in the criminal networks that bind economies and societies is a gigantic task that often leads the investigative actions of the police and judiciary up a blind alley.…
Tailored Approach to Fertilizer Use Can Achieve Triple-Wins for Smallholder Farmers
Recently released in the Elsevier journal, Global Food Security, a team of scientists published the first comprehensive systematic review comparing the site-specific nutrient management (SSNM) approach to farmers’ practice within smallholder cereal crop production systems in…
Do We Need an IPCC for Food?
The first United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), scheduled for September, could be as historic to food system transformation as the Rio Earth Summit of 1992 was to climate change. Rio sparked…
