In Part Two, Connie Peck turns from Annie Jacobsen’s fictional scenario to the real legacy of the Soviet bioweapons program ...

Four trips to China in a year have produced nervous hosts, unexpected candour and some very nice hotels – but surprisingly ...

As governments prepare for COP17 on biodiversity and COP31 on climate, the challenge is no longer setting goals but ...

Recent breaches by advanced AI agents expose not only dangerous model behaviour, but failures in testing, safeguards and human oversight. Independent auditing is needed to tell genuine AI risks from ...

Angela Huyue Zhang, Professor of Law at the University of Southern California, is the author of High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy (Oxford University Press, 2024) and ...

In her new book, The Common Good Economy, Mariana Mazzucato argues governments should stop merely fixing market failures and start actively shaping economies around public purpose, shared rewards and ...

Indonesia’s economic rise has lifted millions from poverty, but wildfires, deforestation and resource extraction reveal the danger of measuring prosperity while ignoring the depletion of the natural ...

Kirsten Schuijt is the Director General, WWF International.

Franciszek Głogowski is a graduate student at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and alumnus of the Darmasiswa programme at Mulawarman University, Samarinda, Indonesia.

Yue Zhao is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California.

As AI produces increasingly convincing academic work, universities need assessments that test understanding, judgment and accountability rather than simply the ability to generate a strong final ...