Demand for computer chips fuelled by AI could reshape global politics and security

The effects of AI’s growth on global security could be difficult to predict.

Alina Vaduva, Director of the Business Advice Centre for Post Graduate Students at UEL, Ambassador of the Centre for Innovation, Management and Enterprise, University of East London • conversation
March 4, 2024 • ~8 min

Nasa’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity has ended its mission – its success paves the way for more flying vehicles on other planets and moons

Among the missions being planned is a huge helicopter drone to explore Saturn’s moon Titan.

Kevin Olsen, UKSA Mars Science Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Oxford • conversation
Jan. 29, 2024 • ~7 min

Privatised Moon landings: the two US missions set to open a new era of commercial lunar exploration

The Peregrine and Nova-C landers are due to carry out valuable science at two diverse lunar locations.

Ian Whittaker, Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University • conversation
Jan. 2, 2024 • ~8 min

Earthrise: historian uncovers the true origins of the 'image of the century’

Borman’s professionalism helped the risky Apollo 8 mission become a success.

Robert Poole, Professor of History, University of Central Lancashire • conversation
Nov. 17, 2023 • ~8 min

Humans got to America 7,000 years earlier than thought, new research confirms

The early settlement of the Americas is hugely contested area of archaeology.

Sally Christine Reynolds, Associate Professor in Hominin Palaeoecology, Bournemouth University • conversation
Oct. 5, 2023 • ~7 min

Returning to the Moon can benefit commercial, military and political sectors – a space policy expert explains

While a return to the Moon will allow the U.S. to collaborate with other nations interested in space, this endeavor is also complicated by geopolitical tensions.

Mariel Borowitz, Associate Professor of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology • conversation
July 18, 2023 • ~9 min

The microchip industry would implode if China invaded Taiwan, and it would affect everyone

The disruption of Taiwan’s chip industry would affect everyone.

Robyn Klingler-Vidra, Associate Dean, Global Engagement | Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, King's College London • conversation
June 9, 2023 • ~8 min

Driverless cars: what we've learned from experiments in San Francisco and Phoenix

Trials in US cities of self-driving taxis could have implications for road users around the world.

Jack Stilgoe, Professor of Science and Technology Policy, UCL • conversation
Feb. 24, 2023 • ~7 min

The same app can pose a bigger security and privacy threat depending on the country where you download it, study finds

Mobile apps are sometimes ‘regionalized’ to better serve the needs of users, functioning differently in, for example, China than in Canada. But some of those differences pose security and privacy risks.

Renuka Kumar, Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan • conversation
Sept. 27, 2022 • ~8 min

Ghost islands of the Arctic: The world’s ‘northern-most island’ isn’t the first to be erased from the map

The new discovery echoes a mission in 1931, when a five-day zeppelin flight sent robots to the stratosphere and redrew the maps of the high Arctic.

Kevin Hamilton, Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Hawaii • conversation
Sept. 8, 2022 • ~11 min

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