Germany’s election on February 23rd, which will probably mark an end to Mr Scholz’s tenure, is a good moment to assess the ...

F OR SOLDIERS at the front, electromagnetic defences are as vital as air: invisible when present, and disastrous when not. In ...

Might it also be possible, then, to use acoustic waves to disrupt the electromechanical sensors that drones require to fly?

T the Labour government has had a spluttering start since it came into power seven months ago. Trying to explain its policies ...

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President Donald Trump is threatening to impose tariffs of 25% on Canada on the flimsiest of pretexts. Moreover (and you have ...

But neither they nor anyone else could have predicted President Donald Trump’s astonishing plan to end their misery: the ...

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F OR THE criminally minded, the allure of cryptocurrencies is easy to grasp. Decentralised online ledgers called blockchains allow digital assets, in the form of “tokens”, to be moved without ...

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India was pushing back in other ways too, granting neighbours relief from covid-19 and from debt problems linked to Chinese ...