Like giant bones planted in the earth, clusters of tree trunks, stripped clean of bark, are appearing along the Chesapeake Bay on the United States’ mid-Atlantic coast. They are ghost forests: the haunting remains of what were once stands of cedar and pine. Since the late 19th century, an ever-widening swath of these trees have … Read more
The outgoing Bundestag is currently debating an amendment to the Basic Law to enact a multi-billion-euro financial package. The main issues are loosening the debt brake for defence spending and creating a special fund for infrastructure. What is at stake? We asked Florian Meinel, Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law and Political Science at the Georg-August … Read more
What does an eclipse look like from the moon? Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander just sent back a stunning image from the lunar surface. The commercial space company’s lander, which touched down on the moon’s surface without a hitch on March 2 as part of a mission for NASA, took a high-definition image of the … Read more
It’s a truism at this point to say that Americans own a lot of guns. Case in point: This week, a fire chief in rural Alabama stopped to help a driver who had just hit a deer. The two men walked up the driveway of a nearby home. For reasons that remain unclear, a man … Read more
Mamma Mia! A major hacking scandal in Italy has expanded to include alleged involvement from Israel and the Vatican, and just why are companies advertising jobs that don’t exist? All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault. Warning: This podcast … Read more