5/2/24 DECEPTION DETECTION Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments Artificial intelligence may soon help to identify lies and deception. However, a research team from the Universities of Marburg and Würzburg warns against premature use. Oh, if only it were as easy as with Pinocchio. Here it was simple to see when he was telling a lie: after all, his nose grew a little longer each time. In reality, it is much more difficult to recognize lies and it is only understandable that scientist have already for a long time been trying to develop valid deception detectio ..read more

5/2/24 SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVENESS Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments Countries with limited potential for renewables could save up to 20 percent of costs for green steel and up to 40 percent for green chemicals from green hydrogen if they relocated their energy-intensive production and would import from countries where renewable energy is cheaper, finds a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). read more ..read more

5/2/24 GRID RESILIENCE Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other institutions joined industry stakeholders in exploring solutions for power grid climate resilience at the Climate READi Southeast workshop co-hosted by EPRI and ORNL’s Water Power Program on April 10-11. read more ..read more

5/2/24 WILDFIRES Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  0 A decayed utility pole that broke, causing power wires to fall on dry grass in the Texas Panhandle, sparked the state’s largest wildfire in history, a Texas House committee confirmed Wednesday. read more ..read more

5/2/24 NUCLEAR WEAPONS Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments Though a second Trump presidency is not a foregone conclusion, NATO members are gearing up to Trump-proof the organization and reviewing their defense strategies. read more ..read more

5/2/24 NUCLEAR DETERRENCE Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments During the early 1980s there were regular protests in the UK against nuclear weapons accompanied by intense debates about the morality and credibility of deterrence. Most memorable was the Woman’s Peace Camp outside the RAF base at Greenham Common where cruise missiles were to be based. On 1 April 1983 a 14-mile chain was formed by some 70,000 protesters from Greenham to the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston and on to the ordnance factory at Burghfield. read more ..read more

5/1/24 OUR PICKS Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  0 Voters, Please Think About the Menace of Nuclear Annihilation  (George F. Will, Washington Post) Today, uncountable dollars and unquantifiable hysteria are devoted to the distant threat of climate change, but, meanwhile, negligible public anxiety accompanies the intensifying danger of global incineration from nuclear war. read more ..read more

5/1/24 BORDER SECURITY Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments  With the success of Texas’ border security mission Operation Lone Star pushing human trafficking efforts by Mexican cartels further west, southern California is “the new epicenter” of illegal immigration, officials say. read more ..read more

5/1/24 IRAN’S THREAT Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments A feature of the simmering tensions between the US, Israel and Iran has been not just the tit-for-tat missile and drone strikes and assassinations, but accusations of cyberwarfare waged by Iran. read more ..read more

5/1/24 CHIP WAR Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments The CHIPS and Science Act marks a substantial ramp-up of industrial policy in the United States. The legislation is sparking a great deal of investment activity in the U.S. semiconductor sector, but several challenges and potential pitfalls lie ahead. read more ..read more