The US crackdown on Chinese economic espionage is a mess. We have the data to show it.
A visiting researcher at UCLA accused of hiding his connection to China’s People’s Liberation Army.…
We built a database to understand the China Initiative. Then the government changed its records.
How we built it. What the Department of Justice changed on its China Initiative webpage.…
Why blanket travel bans won’t work to stop omicron
Countries are slamming their borders shut again. Since the omicron variant was discovered in southern…
We won’t know how bad omicron is for another month
The discovery of the omicron variant of covid-19 in southern Africa shows how sequencing the…
Renewables are set to soar
Construction of solar farms, wind turbines, and other sources of renewable power will soar over…
The FDA has narrowly backed Merck’s covid pill—but it’s not that effective
The news: A US Food and Drug Administration panel has voted by 13 to 10…
We still don’t know enough about the Omicron variant to panic
The news: Just five days ago, South African scientists informed the World Health Organization that…
Can Afghanistan’s underground “sneakernet” survive the Taliban?
When Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in August, Mohammad Yasin had to make some difficult…
Machine learning improves Arabic speech transcription capabilities
Thanks to advancements in speech and natural language processing, there is hope that one day…
NASA wants to use the sun to power future deep space missions
In August 2022, a NASA probe called Psyche will set out to explore a giant metallic asteroid called Psyche 16, to…