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Can India power the AI dream?

The country has rushed to embrace artificial intelligence. Its impacts on jobs, the electrical grid and water availability need to be taken into account.

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Politics

Farewell to soft power

US rhetoric and policy signal a move from persuasion to deterrence, unsettling allies and heightening global strategic tensions.

Economy

The cost of a schoolbook

In East Nusa Tenggara Indonesia, a 10-year-old boy’s suicide exposes the limits of income-based poverty metrics. Multidimensional data show that deprivation in Indonesia often clusters

Land clearing in Sumatra is accelerating ecological degradation and undermining the region’s long‑term economic stability. Credit: Nurul Qariati Fadila - Univ. Andalas

The limits of a land-hungry economy

Floods in Sumatra reveal how Indonesia’s land‑hungry growth model is straining forests, farmland, and ecosystems, threatening long‑term economic stability.

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Sunset of the lab mouse era

2026 will mark a shift in the world of biomedical science. As regulators move to phase down animal testing, an alternative for cancer research is

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