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Briefing: Turning growth into profits remains a challenge as space demand grows

Strategic angle: While the space economy is expanding across multiple fronts, questions remain about how some of its most promising opportunities could translate growing demand into sustainable profits.

Editorial Staff Mar 26

Tech

Briefing: We Haven't Seen the Worst of What Gambling and Prediction Markets Will Do

Strategic angle: Exploring the potential impacts of gambling and prediction markets on society.

Editorial Staff Mar 26

Tech

Briefing: How much precision can you squeeze out of a table?

Strategic angle: Exploring the limits of table precision in data representation.

Editorial Staff Mar 26

Money

Briefing: How nuclear power became this New Mexico journalist's family origin myth

Strategic angle: Exploring the deep connections between nuclear energy and personal history.

Editorial Staff Mar 26

Politics

Briefing: Countries deploying growing number of nuclear weapons, international monitors warn

Strategic angle: Nearly all of the nine nuclear-armed states have started increasing their arsenals or have announced plans to do so, according to authors of the annual Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor report.

Editorial Staff Mar 26

Politics

Briefing: Spanish woman to die by euthanasia after long legal battle with father

Strategic angle: The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in Noelia Castillo's favour earlier this week.

Editorial Staff Mar 26

Life

Briefing: Why believing 'practice makes perfect' may matter more than grit for students' grades

Strategic angle: A recent study reveals that students who embrace the idea of improvement through practice tend to perform better academically.

Editorial Staff Mar 26

Life

Briefing: AI tool can screen unknown bacteria for disease-linked genes, moving closer to preventing pandemics

Strategic angle: PathogenFinder2, developed by researchers at DTU, aims to identify genetic traits in unfamiliar bacteria that could lead to disease outbreaks.

Editorial Staff Mar 26

Money

Briefing: Students race ore carts, use hammer and steel chisel at University of Arizona mining games

Strategic angle: Exciting competitions highlight the skills of future mining professionals.

Editorial Staff Mar 26

Money

Iran’s military leaders dismiss Trump’s deal claims

Military command says it will not ‘come to terms’ with US after Washington presents 15-point plan to end war

Editorial Staff Mar 26