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DARPA launches LunA-10, a decade-long initiative reshaping lunar infrastructure by 2035, catalysing transformative advancements in the domain.

The UK basic wage growth has reached a new record high, posing challenges for the Bank of England (BoE) amid concerns about long-term inflation pressures.

Sarah Wilkin, Founder & CEO of Fly Green Alliance (FGA), looks at how the airline industry is working to reduce its carbon footprint through the use of sustainable aviation fuel.

With the cost of living increasing and financial instability becoming the norm, understanding UK monetary policy and the causes of a potential UK recession is becoming more and more important.

What must governments do to transition to the cashless economy? Policymakers need to address issues by protecting access to cash and to the financial system.

Research finds that plant-based meat consumption is reducing across the UK, despite a greater uptake of other environmentally friendly practices. How do we drive commercial growth again?

The position here is that public policies should, ultimately speaking, be for the promotion of social welfare. What is social welfare? This is the welfare of people in the relevant society (discussing the issue of animal welfare later).

Our planet is suffering from the effects of climate change. To tackle this, Connected Kerb aims to charge up the NHS with a reliable network of public charging infrastructure.

David Green, Executive Director of the U.S. Sustainability Alliance, discusses sustainable food systems, mirror clauses and their meaning.

Patrick Legros, Professor of Econonmics at Université libre de Bruxelles, explores how Industrial Organization can help understand the positive and normative consequences of different market structures In the Industrial Organization (IO) field, we understand the positive and normative consequences of different market structures. For instance, fewer firms yield higher prices....

Tadeusz Hawrot, Founder and Executive Director of PAREA, states the case for a new focus in the EU’s mental health care approach, that is the underserved area of psychedelic therapies.

The government is currently supporting the BoE’s stance of continuing to raise interest rates to stamp out UK inflation – but is it working?

Professor Emi Sugawara from Osaka University of Economics and Law, Faculty of International Studies, walks us through the critical development of Japan’s policies concerning business and human rights.

Irene Selwaness is an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University, Egypt, and a research fellow at the Economic Research Forum She worked previously as a research fellow in the Equity and Social Policy Programme at ODI, London. She received her Master’s degree in...

Sarah Hall, University of Nottingham, discusses and assesses the impact of Brexit on the UK economy, in combination with COVID-19 and the Ukraine war.

Professor Aoife Foley is Chair in Net Zero in the School of Engineering at The University of Manchester and Professor of Energy Systems Engineering in Queen’s University Belfast. She is also Editor in Chief of Elsevier’s Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, the leading global journal in the world in the...

Tailoring care to meet patients’ needs can dramatically improve clinical outcomes; we hear how the IC2PerMed project is bolstering efforts in personalised medicine.

Dr Avinash Hari Narayanan (MBChB), Clinical Lead at London Medical Laboratory, explains that we need stronger efforts worldwide to end HIV transmission and improve the lives of those living with the disease.

The stability and dominance of the dollar is under threat. For years, the dollar has held a firm grip as the global currency, serving as the primary reserve currency and preferred medium of exchange for international transactions, but that might be changing Recent trends and developments, most notably the Russia...

Whether in software development, the automotive industry or the maintenance of industrial machinery – artificial intelligence (AI) is booming. Here are some AI trends for 2023.