Commercial perovskite,tandem photovoltaics are transitioning from lab curiosity to industrial reality as multiple players validate manufacturing processes, secure partnerships, and record efficiency and reliability milestones. The next two years will determine whether these devices, which stack a perovskite top cell…
Parents, schools and city officials are reassessing how childhood is shaped in an era when social platforms, edtech providers and ubiquitous devices mediate so much of young lives. Policy shifts, legal challenges and local experiments, from European enforcement of the…
Homes are changing from static living spaces into adaptive, data-informed environments that support physical and mental health. Advances in artificial intelligence are enabling systems that learn occupants’ routines and tailor lighting, air quality, temperature and soundscapes to support sleep, stress…
Teams across industry and research are increasingly pairing generative models with circular-material toolkits to tackle one of the most pressing constraints in modern manufacturing: designing materials that meet function while enabling reuse, recycling or safe degradation. This pairing reframes generative…
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to produce the first wide, high-resolution maps of large swathes of the infrared sky, datasets designed from the outset to target the physics of cosmic acceleration. As a wide-field, Hubble-quality imager optimized…
The next wave of energy-efficient artificial intelligence will be defined less by single, monolithic chips and more by systems that disaggregate compute, memory and I/O into tightly integrated, specialized components. As models and data sets keep growing, moving bits across…
In the past two years regulatory pressure on large online platforms and AI vendors has moved from distant threat to immediate operational constraint. Major European rules, the Digital Services Act and the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, have put recommender systems…
The rapid escalation of the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighbouring Uganda has rippled far beyond public health corridors, forcing governments and organisers to reshuffle diplomatic timetables and postpone major summits. The World Health…
From 2 August 2026 the EU’s transparency rules for AI-generated content enter a new phase, forcing publishers to surface when material is synthetic and to make outputs detectable by machines. The European Commission’s guidance and a newly published Code of…
Europe is entering a wildfire season framed by two compounding drivers: the long-term warming trend that has lengthened fire seasons across the continent, and a developing El Niño event that meteorological agencies say will influence temperature and rainfall patterns through…