Are violators the real beneficiaries of treaties? The violators of past arms control agreements between the nuclear superpowers gained the possibility of developing and implementing new offensive and defensive missile…
The plastic pollution crisis has reached unprecedented levels: plastic shopping bags, plastic packaging, plastic water bottles, etc. About 80% of all the plastic ever produced remains in the environment, from…
Global supply chains featuring commodity ingredients and foods are often opaque, tangled and secretive. Huge multi-national food companies often have well-crafted human rights policies listed on their websites while at…
Egypt is the most important bottleneck for global internet communication. Data travels across the ocean floor to Europe and beyond via underwater sea cables linking the Mediterranean and Red Sea.…
On 5 April 2023, the world awoke to a YouTube video, posted by a user calling themselves ChaosGPT. The chatbot, similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has a sinister plan to destroy…
AI regulation has become urgent. IAEA Safeguards experience can provide a model for AI regulation by an International Artificial Intelligence Agency (IAIA), whose mandate would be the objective and independent…
ESA has recently confirmed that the Ariane 6 will be launched in the fourth-quarter of 2023. Its goal is to replace the Ariane 5 and confirm the European Union’s common…
In recent years, climate change has become a growing threat to low-lying island nations around the world. Rising sea levels, an increased frequency of extreme weather events, and other impacts…
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Austrian Karl von Frisch’s 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology for his ground breaking discoveries on bees. Frisch showed that bees exhibit complex…
While legislators are scrambling to regulate AI, Elon Musk is calling for a six-month moratorium. The cat is out of the bag. The public is torn between awe and apprehension.…