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China’s ‘Rapid’ Debt Buildup May Portend A Looming Financial Crisis: New York Fed

China’s recent debt buildup following the Covid-19 pandemic has researchers from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York wondering if the country […]

Three countries possess over 50% of Africa’s total wealth

More than half of Africa’s total wealth is controlled by only three nations according to this year’s Africa Wealth Report (pdf) published […]

Europe could see a devastating ‘Lehman Brothers’ event as power producers face $1.5 trillion in margin calls — here’s how governments across the region are stepping in

Wild swings in the price of natural gas — exacerbated by the halt of supply from the Russian Nord Stream […]

How fairy tales shape fighting spirit: Ukraine’s children hear bedtime stories of underdog heroes, while Russian children hear tales of magical success

Mia Bloom, Professor and Fellow at Evidence Based Cyber Security Program, Georgia State University and Sophia Moskalenko, Research Fellow in […]

A Logarithmic Map of the Entire Observable Universe

Among the scientific community, it’s widely believed that so far humans have only discovered about 5% of the universe. Yet, despite […]

In think tank’s Taiwan war game, US beats China at high cost

WASHINGTON – In a pessimistic, but realistic, 2026 war game scenario, a combined sabotage and information operation campaign helped Chinese military […]

This Solar Tower Can Transform Water, Sunlight, and Carbon Dioxide Into Jet Fuel

Aldo Steinfeld, a professor at ETH Zürich’s Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, says his system for converting ambient air […]

Visualized: Which Countries are Dominating Space?

▼ Use This Visualization Believe it or not, there is a lot of stuff in space. In fact, our atmosphere […]

No path out of economic oblivion for Russia, Yale University scientists believe

August 11, 2022·19 min read In the study, titled “Business Retreats and Sanctions Are Crippling the Russian Economy” the experts said that […]

Yale researchers have unearthed a new clue that may explain who has long COVID—and how to treat the chronic condition

Public health officials are scrambling to understand long COVID, the condition in which patients report symptoms like fatigue, muscle weakness, […]