The world faces unresolved conflicts, growing climate crises, attacks on aid workers, two famines, and diminishing political will—along with significant aid cuts. Altogether, 2025 has earned a grim ...

Our blog’s Chart of the Week series tracked how the global economy evolved in 2025, with the top five charts highlighting some of the key issues shaping economic and policy discussions.

Abstract: The rise of smart cities has leveraged the power of Internet of Things devices to transform urban services. A key element of this transformation is the widespread deployment of IoT devices ...

Most work to date on mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic is focused urgently on biomedicine and epidemiology. However, pandemic-related policy decisions cannot be made on health information alone but ...

Leave it to Elon Musk’s Grok to innovate new ways of being both staggeringly antisemitic and grovelingly deferential to its creator. In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot was recently asked to ...

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World Urbanization Prospects 2025: Summary of Results highlights the key findings of the 2025 Revision of the World Urbanization Prospects, offering an overview of global urban transformation. It ...

Abstract: Feature selection plays an important role in data analysis, yet traditional graph-based methods often produce suboptimal results. These methods typically follow a two-stage process: ...