- In this issue12 articles
- Science
The Universe's Quietest Listeners: How Europe Plans to Hear the Cosmos Breathe
After decades of dreaming and a flawless technology demonstration in orbit, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna is entering construction—ready to detect gravitational waves that Earth-based observatories will never hear.
- Energy
The Cable Beneath the Celtic Sea: Ireland's Bid for Energy Independence
A 575-kilometre power line snaking across the ocean floor promises to end Ireland's electrical isolation from continental Europe — if the engineering, the budget, and the politics hold.
- Health
The Reckoning: How Bangladesh Lost 610 Children to a Preventable Disease
A measles epidemic has killed more children in five months than in the previous two decades, exposing the fragile architecture of a nation's immunity.
- Economy
The Trillion-Dollar Wager: Inside the AI Economy's Circular Logic
As OpenAI pledges sums that dwarf its revenue and Nvidia breaches $5 trillion, the question is no longer whether artificial intelligence will transform everything—but whether the money flooding in can possibly make sense.
- Technology
The Boom That Remade the World: How AI Slipped Free of the Laboratory
From protein folding to Drake's ghost-Tupac, artificial intelligence has jumped from esoteric research problem to culture-warping, economy-shifting force in less than half a decade—and no one is quite sure what happens next.
- Technology
The Rush to Build Data Centres Above the Clouds
A new space race is underway, but this time the prize isn't prestige—it's processing power.
- Religion
The Second Schism: How Écône Became the Battlefield for the Soul of Tradition
On 1 July 2026, the Society of Saint Pius X consecrated four bishops without papal approval, triggering automatic excommunication and reopening a wound in the Catholic Church that many thought had begun to heal.
- Science
The Long Wait for the Sun on Earth
After decades of delays and billions spent, the world's largest fusion reactor nears completion in southern France — betting that the science of stars can finally answer humanity's energy question.
- Disaster
The Day the Earth Tilted: How Japan's Catastrophe Rewrote the Science of Seismic Horror
The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake didn't just devastate a nation—it moved the planet's axis, shortened Earth's day, and forced geologists to confront the terrifying reality that they had fundamentally misunderstood the risks.
- Economy
The Firm That Taught the World How to Hide
When 11.5 million documents spilt from a Panamanian law office, they exposed not just hidden wealth but a shadow architecture that had been bending the world's laws for decades.
- Economy
The ÂŁ50 Billion Question: How Brexit Remade Britain's Economic Geography
Seven years after the referendum, the cumulative damage is measurable, the labour market is transformed, and Europe's financial centres have quietly redrawn the map.
- Sport
The Double-Bagel Queen and the New King: Wimbledon's Watershed Fortnight
As tradition gives way to technology and dynasties crumble on grass, the 2026 Championships delivered historic performances that will echo through tennis for generations.