Mystery Files / SOURCE REPORTManhattan CCTV captures shadow and vanishing man
Security camera footage from a Manhattan street at 2 AM shows a moving shadow with no source and a man who stops, freezes, and disappears without warning.
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Technology / SOURCE REPORTDigital Payments Are Replacing Cash Faster Than Rules Can Adapt
Cash is declining in many economies, and digital payments are taking its place. The shift brings convenience and lower costs for many users, and it raises questions that existing rules were not written to answer. When payments move from notes and coins to apps and cards, the infrastructure, the risks and the protections all change. […]
Technology / SOURCE REPORTDeep-Sea Mining Is Moving From Theory to Licence Applications
The deep ocean floor holds deposits of metals used in batteries and electronics, and for years extracting them was a thought experiment. That is changing. Companies have applied for exploration and exploitation rights in international waters, and regulators are working out rules for an industry that does not yet exist at scale. The debate that […]
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Business / SOURCE REPORTContainer Freight Rates Swing Because Capacity Cannot Move Fast
Few prices move as dramatically as the cost of shipping a container. In some periods a box crosses an ocean for a few hundred dollars; in others the same route costs several times more. The swings are not a market malfunction. They reflect a system with fixed capacity, volatile demand and routes that can be […]
Business / SOURCE REPORTIFC Backs Digital Payments With 700 Million Dollars in Guarantees
The IFC has announced a risk-sharing initiative intended to help financial institutions expand digital payments in emerging markets.
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Science / SOURCE REPORTIce Cores Hold 800,000 Years of Climate History
Some of the most important climate evidence is stored in ice. As snow falls and compacts over thousands of years, it traps tiny bubbles of ancient air, preserving a direct sample of the atmosphere from before humans could measure it. Ice cores are the closest thing climate science has to a time machine, and they […]
Science / SOURCE REPORTFusion Power’s Latest Milestone Is Real – the Hard Part Comes Next
Fusion energy has a peculiar public relations problem: it has been twenty years away for seventy years. That makes it easy to dismiss each new result as another promise. It also means that genuine progress can be hard to see, because the milestones that matter are technical and incremental rather than dramatic. What fusion is […]
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Culture / SOURCE REPORTPublic Art Is a Negotiation Over Money, Taste and Power
Public art is often treated as an uncontroversial good, and in practice it raises questions about money, taste and power. A sculpture in a square is paid for by someone, chosen by someone, and experienced by everyone who passes. The disagreements that follow are not a sign that public art has failed. They are what […]
Culture / SOURCE REPORTUNESCO Turns Its General History of Africa Into an Exhibition
The Paris display is scheduled to open to the public on 17 September.
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World / SOURCE REPORTUrban Heat Is Becoming a Public Health Emergency
Heatwaves kill more people in cities than many other hazards, and the deaths are often invisible. They occur at home, among the elderly and isolated, and they are recorded as heart attacks or respiratory failure rather than as heat deaths. As cities warm, the problem is growing, and the response is uneven. Urban heat is […]
World / SOURCE REPORTGlobal Health Financing Is Under Pressure
Health systems in low- and middle-income countries depend on a mix of domestic spending and international support. The domestic share has grown, and external financing has become less predictable, with several large donors reorienting their budgets. The result is a funding squeeze at a time when demand for health services is rising. The squeeze matters […]