Rosamond Hutt is a Senior Writer at Formative Content. Recoded to Forum Agenda on 29/05/2024.
An estimated 3.7 million – one in three – Syrian children have been born since the conflict began five years ago, their lives shaped by violence, fear and displacement, the UN’s children’...
Many people assume that robots would have to be sentient before they could act ethically. But this is not the case, says Alan Winfield, Director of the Science Communication Unit at the U...
When it comes to managing our time, many of us would agree there’s room for improvement.
The hunt for life on Mars just entered a new phase after Europe and Russia launched a spacecraft in a joint mission that will search for clues of alien organisms.
By 2022, 1 trillion networked sensors will be embedded in the world around us. These connected sensors will contain data about our habits, our activities and our bodies, and there are gro...
On 11 March 2011, a magnitude nine earthquake off Japan’s north-east coast triggered a massive tsunami that crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, causing the worst nuclear disas...
What would you ask Bill Gates if you had the chance? In an AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) Q&A session on social news service Reddit, users quizzed the Microsoft co-founder on a wide range of...
Harvesting more power by splitting high-energy photons in two is a near-term possibility, says Richard Friend, Professor of Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.
Google’s computer program AlphaGo has defeated a top-ranked Go player in the first round of five historic matches – marking a significant achievement in the development of artificial inte...
The Bank for International Settlements – dubbed the central bankers’ central bank – has warned about the potential consequences of negative interest rates.
More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe in 2015 – the largest movement of people the continent has seen since the end of the Second World War.
World Book Day is observed in more than 100 countries as a celebration of the joys of reading.
A record number of women are expected to enter Iran’s parliament, with the latest election results suggesting more than 20 could gain seats – the highest number ever.
Japan’s population has fallen by nearly 1 million in the past five years, in the first decline since the census began in 1920. This is bad news for the country’s shrinking economy, which ...
The world’s largest 20 economies need to step up the pace of reforms to reinvigorate growth, create jobs and build a more inclusive global economy, according to the OECD’s annual Going fo...
