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Drone strikes on Moscow earlier this week were among the largest in the city since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier last year. While Ukraine said it was not “directly” responsible for the strikes on Moscow, Russia’s government called them a “terrorist attack.” At the frontline, both Russia and Ukraine are using drones. They are among more than 100 other countries, including, the US, that are known to have incorporated them in their arsenals.
But, as Tara Sonenshine explains, there are no rules of engagement. Each country is free to decide when and where drones fly, without answering to any other country or international authority. There is little on-the-ground guidance on the rules of the sky. She argues the case for new and consistent rules on the use of drones, as well as better international monitoring of drone incursions and more transparency about the outcome of drone attacks.
The Atlantic hurricane season has officially begun. This year’s forecast is complicated by the expected formation of El Niño conditions in the Pacific Ocean. Christina Patricola unpacks the various factors at play, with numerous graphics to demonstrate the effects of sea temperatures and shifting global wind patterns during an El Niño.
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Tara Sonenshine, Tufts University
As drone strikes become a more routine part of warfare, a set of rules or standards that can help determine how they are used in warfare is needed, writes a former US diplomat.
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Christina Patricola, Iowa State University
Current forecasts suggest a warm tropical Pacific will be interfering with what could otherwise be a ferocious Atlantic hurricane season.
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Alan Thomas Kennedy-Asser, University of Bristol; Dann Mitchell, University of Bristol; Eunice Lo, University of Bristol
A heatwave isn’t just about the temperature.
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James Pang, Monash University; Alex Fornito, Monash University
New research may upend our understanding of the brain, showing that travelling waves of neuronal excitation dominate the activity associated with our thoughts and feelings.
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Julia Minson, Harvard Kennedy School
Researchers have identified ways to have more productive conversations – even when you’re talking to someone who holds an opposite view.
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Melissa Wanjiru-Mwita, Technical University of Kenya
The naming of streets, places and landmarks in colonial Nairobi was used to show the political, ideological and ethnic dominance of the British.
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Alejandro Nava, University of Arizona
Latino artists have been forging their own paths in hip-hop for decades, giving voice to young peoples’ pain, faith and demands for change.
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