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One hundred years of relativity
By Sabine Hossenfelder - Mar 31, 2015 - Last updated at Mar 31, 2015 22:37
This year marks the centenary of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, his masterwork describing gravity as the curvature of ...
‘Seizing the momentum’
By Sima Bahous - Mar 30, 2015 - Last updated at Mar 30, 2015 22:40
We are entering the fifth year of crisis in Syria, with no end in sight. Instability is threatening neighbouring countries and indeed the w ...
The Fed versus price stability
By Robert Heller - Mar 29, 2015 - Last updated at Mar 29, 2015 22:18
There is a big difference between the Federal Reserve’s mandate to maintain “stable prices” — as enunciated in the F ...
A bright future for clean technology
By Jon Creyts - Mar 28, 2015 - Last updated at Mar 28, 2015 22:54
Observers might be forgiven for thinking that so-called clean technology’s moment in the sun has passed. Over the last two years, man ...
Not just about chocolates
By Seif Usher - Mar 25, 2015 - Last updated at Mar 25, 2015 22:08
It passed probably unobserved by most media watchers in Jordan, but UK newspapers recently had some fun at the expense of the British Foreig ...
The visible hand of economic prosperity
By Jürgen Jeske - Mar 23, 2015 - Last updated at Mar 23, 2015 22:28
Germany has weathered the financial crisis much better than most of its neighbours. Regarded as the sick man of Europe as recently as 1999, ...
Netanyahu’s big surprise
By Itamar Rabinovich - Mar 19, 2015 - Last updated at Mar 19, 2015 22:37
Benjamin Netanyahu proved the pollsters wrong, not once, but twice. In the weeks and days leading up to Israel’s election, his defeat ...
From Munich to Kiev
By Petr Kolár - Mar 16, 2015 - Last updated at Mar 16, 2015 22:32
In 1938, when British prime minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich proclaiming “peace in our time”, Winston Churchill ...
The Parkinson’s mystery
By Gill Nelson - Mar 14, 2015 - Last updated at Mar 14, 2015 22:23
Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative neurological disorder that affects around 7 million people globally, and 1 million in the United ...
The immorality of coal
By Stephen Pickard - Mar 11, 2015 - Last updated at Mar 11, 2015 22:21
Momentum seems to be building for a global deal at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this December. With this sense of ...

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