Special feature: a decade since disaster: lessons from the economic crisis. In September 2008 the world watched as Lehman Brothers, one of the largest global financial services firms, spectacularly collapsed. Even though the economic clouds had already begun to darken as of 2007, Lehman’s demise...
Can big data go mainstream? In 1999, the advent of blogging gave birth to what we’ve all come to know as the Web 2.0. From consumers of content generated by a very limited number of sources, internet users had become the creators of this content. The amount of information available ballooned, an...
Headlines over the past few years have made future human missions to the Moon and Mars more tangible than they’ve ever been. From the unbridled ambitions of a certain Elon Musk to Donald Trump’s recent directive shifting NASA’s focus on going back to the Moon, along with the constant discoveries...
It was exactly 10 years ago that the economic crisis hit the European rail freight sector head-on. Volumes dropped heavily, and some of the sector’s main weaknesses were brought to light. On the legislative front, EU Member States had just started deploying the European Rail Traffic Management S...
Special feature: new weapons in the war against malaria. The 25th of April will be World Malaria Day – an event organised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to remind us that, although the disease is only plaguing tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world, we should all feel concerned a...
Special feature: the dawn of the graphene age. Graphene has been presented as a miracle material since it was first isolated by researchers of the University of Manchester in 2004. From making our computers 1 000 times faster to enabling bionic devices, cleaning up radioactive waste or desalinis...
On 12 October 2017, we will be celebrating the World Sight Day in the face of a thought-provoking statistic: of all the blind or visually-impaired people out there, 80% are avoidably so. For the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, the most effective weapon to change this fact i...