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Shanghai, China: Sponge City on the Delta

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 12 Shanghai is sinking. The city centre has subsided more than three metres since the late nineteenth century, while the...

The Living Marsh: The World’s Remaining Wetlands and the Intelligence of Water

The Living Marsh Feature · The Living World The world’s remaining wetlands, the work they do for the planet, and the intelligence of water At first light,...

Modern Slavery in the Twenty-First Century

Is modern slavery surging, or just better counted? Inside the contested 49.6 million figure, forced-labour supply chains and the new trade crackdown.

Shenzhen, China: Electrifying the Megacity

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 10 In 2017, Shenzhen became the first city in the world to operate a fully electric public bus fleet. In...

The Large Language Model Landscape of October 2025: A New Era of Intelligence

The race for AI supremacy has entered its most dynamic phase yet. As we stand in October 2025, the large language model ecosystem has...

The Great Entanglement: Navigating Humanity’s Polycrisis at the Dawn of the AI Age

The Age of Overwhelm The feeling is now familiar, a low-grade hum of anxiety that accompanies the morning scroll. A headline announces another record-shattering heatwave,...

Transhumanism, Now: Humanity’s Bet on Its Own Future

The big idea Transhumanism is a bet that humanity can take charge of its own evolution. It is both a philosophy and a movement, resting...

The Empathetic Eye: How Feeling Enhances Seeing in Scientific Discovery

Introduction: The Scientist's Dilemma—A Feeling for the Organism or a Dispassionate Gaze? The archetype of the scientist is etched into the cultural imagination with a...

From Bit to Qubit: Wheeler and Faggin on Information, Reality, and Consciousness

The nature of reality and its relationship to information has emerged as one of the most profound questions in contemporary physics and philosophy. John...

Justice and Meaning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Listen to our short podcast overview of this article's content if you are short of time The intuitive appeal of utilitarianism as an ethical framework...

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