Steven Spielberg: Storyteller Extraordinaire
It takes a remarkable man to change the course of a whole industry with one mechanical shark. Steven Spielberg did just that with his...
Spotlight on Montenegro
Can the double-edged sword of this tiny country be finally sheathed by a merger into the European Union?
IT isn’t entirely certain that Milo Djukanovic,...
A Synchrotron for Africa: Scientists Unite Behind Proposed Project
With the Zimbabwe dollar now relegated to history, the country’s resilient, albeit battered, economy is once again lubricated by a stable currency. Emerging from...
ILO Global Commission homes in on key opportunities and challenges surrounding...
The Global Commission on the Future of Work wrapped up its first meeting on Sunday 22 October following an in-depth discussion of the main forces shaping...
Bernie Sanders: To the Rescue of Middle Class America
To understand Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, ask his brother. He may be found, not in downtown New York but pottering in his garden behind...
University’s incubator programme selects cancer-fighting start-ups
TWENTY start-ups — eight of them operating projects in the field of cancer — have been selected for a University of Edinburgh incubator programme...
Digital Detectives: The Disassembly of a Cyber Missile
The ever-present threat of infection by vicious viruses hangs like a Sword of Damocles over anyone using a computer. The dark art of remote...
Book Review: Niall Ferguson’s Civilization: Six Ways the West Beat the...
In much the same way Marxists internationalists held on to the belief that the workers’ revolution would sweep the world before it, today’s neoconservatives...
Dorothy Hodgkin: From Chemistry Set to Nobel Prize
Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994), née Crowfoot, is one of only a handful of women to have won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. She pioneered and...
Turing Fest returns to connect tech luminaries
ONE OF Europe's leading tech conferences, Turing Fest, returns next month as an in-person event in Edinburgh.
Attendees from around the world include the founders,...





































