A new research center based at the University of Glasgow is setting out to develop the ‘cognitive’ cities of the future which will revolutionize urban life. The Centre for Integrated Sensing and Communication Enabling Cognitive…
The permanent struggle for liberty
Daron Acemoglu’s new book examines the battle between state and society, which occasionally produces liberal-democratic freedom. Where do democratic states with substantial personal liberty come from? Over the years, many grand theories have emphasized one…
UN Climate Action Summit: IRENA Urges Leaders to…
Agency says it’s possible to limit climate change but investments in renewables must more than double to around USD 750 billion per year by 2030 Public and private sector leaders are being urged to double…
New study investigates the important role of Tambora…
A new study has estimated for the first time how the eruption of Mount Tambora changed the probability of the cold and wet European ‘year without a summer’ of 1816. It found that the observed…
Uncovering the hidden “noise” that can kill qubits
MIT and Dartmouth College researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, a tool that detects new characteristics of environmental “noise” that can destroy the fragile quantum state of qubits, the fundamental components of quantum computers.…