Football mega-events have become increasingly prominent, influenced by social and mass media coverage. Hosting such events can require significant investment in infrastructure, equipment or security.

Climate change, long sidelined, is now central to politics, media, and popular discourse. This is well-justified; the Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate. Natural disasters are exacerbated by ...

Academics worldwide shifted to online teaching due to COVID-19 in March 2020. This sudden change exposed stark inequalities in digital education. The transition highlighted issues like unequal access ...

Alberta is the world’s largest exploiter of bitumen. Production is concentrated near the banks of the Athabasca River in northeastern Alberta upstream of the globally significant Peace-Athabasca Delta ...

We recommend reading the first part of this article, The consequences of enslaving AI entities. This article discusses arguments for and against the artificial exploitation of AI entities. How can ...

What if Saudi Arabia’s water crisis had a buried solution? Scientists explore hidden riverbeds beneath the desert that may offer a new hope for the future. The Academic’s mission is simple: Explain ...

The European Union’s ambitious climate targets will not be met with the current fiscal policies, as we concluded in a recent study published in Climate Policy. To overcome this problem, we proposed a ...

Explore how Hallyu Tracker decodes the global appeal of South Korean culture through AI-driven insights into cultural, social, and economic influences. What began in the 1990s as a regional craze with ...

If you've never heard an aggressive roar or cry of pain in your life, could you still voluntarily produce these emotional vocalisations? Our study suggests not. The Academic’s mission is simple: ...

The 2015 Paris Agreement established ambitious objectives to control climate change. A key aim is to cap the rise in average global temperatures to 1.5 °C. Achieving this requires substantial cuts in ...

In the world of AI, rapid development raises ethical concerns. Does rapid AI growth raise ethics worries? Is balancing safety and innovation pivotal? The Academic’s mission is simple: Explain research ...

Can AI think? Certainly not. The act of thinking extends beyond problem-solving and cannot be simplified to its functional aspects. Is AI, therefore, mindless? Not so fast. It is increasingly taking ...