Emran Feroz
The authorities’ plan to turn Tübingen, a small city in southern Germany best known for its eponymous university, into an investment hub for artificial intelligence (AI) met with a hurdle last week when students and activists organised a demonstration. Some of the companies that are making investments in this initiative, known as Cyber Valley, have close ties with the defence sector. The protesting students said that they opposed both the “commercialisation” and “militarisation” of research.“We
Shailaja Tripathi
Close on the heels of the experiment done by a SpiceJet flight using biofuel, we take a look at the scope and potential of this green fuel
Varun B Krishnan
A 'food system' involves the infrastructure and processes that go into feeding the population, such as growing, harvesting and transportation. The Food Sustainability Index (FSI) measures how sustainable these processes are. Here's a look at India's position among 67 countries studied in a report by the Economist Intelligence Unit and Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition. Increasing productionIndia's foodgrain production has been increasing steadily over the years, reaching a record level in
