South Africa’s President Ramaphosa could be impeached – 3 essential reads on the Phala Phala scandal

The world finally has its first ‘parastronaut’. Can we expect anyone to be able to go to space one day?

NASA astronaut Winston E. Scott on an EVA in 1996. NASA JSC The European Space Agency made history last week with the announcement of the first...

Kim Jong Un wants North Korea to be a nuclear superpower – the real risk is a regional arms race

The recent claim by Kim Jong Un that North Korea plans to develop the world’s most powerful nuclear force may well have been more bravado than...

EU hints Twitter ban over content moderation

ANKARA –The European Union has warned Elon Musk that Twitter could face a ban unless its strict rules on content moderation are followed, the Financial Times reported...

Thousands of workers, lecturers, teachers in UK go on strike

COP27 failed. So why continue with these UN climate summits?

Climate change is an existential threat to human civilization and planetary ecosystems. Yet despite 27 UN Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings that have taken place...

Still recovering from COVID-19, US public transit tries to get back on track

U.S. commuters take approximately 10 billion trips on public transit every year. SciLine asked Kari Watkins, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the...

As the Ukraine war derails efforts to solve the climate crisis, a new one looms — the fight for peace

In his opening remarks at the COP27 meeting in Egypt, UN secretary general António Guterres put it this way: “Humanity has a choice: co-operate or perish....

Western leaders are divided over the future of relations with China

European Council president Charles Michel heads to Beijing on December 1, the latest in a procession of western leaders to seek an audience with Xi Jinping,...

Protests in China are not rare – but the current unrest is significant

Street protests across China have evoked memories of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations that were brutally quashed in 1989. Indeed, foreign media have suggested the current unrest...