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On the 16th of July 1945 the world changed forever. In an isolated desert plane outside Los Alamos County in the United States a small plutonium pit surrounded by a uranium sphere was squeezed via simultaneous and uniform detonations of conventional explosives to ach...

[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n July 5th, the Greek people will vote in a referendum that is both incredibly important and technically meaningless. The troika (IMF, European Central Bank, European Commission), with the Germans at the head (making it the troika+1), have already...

Tens of doctors and humanitarian workers have directly challenged the Australian Government to prosecute them under new laws relating to unlawful discloser of information on conditions in immigration detention. The letter was directed to Prime Minister Tony Abbott, I...

In July last year, at its ‘Eagle Works’ propulsion labs, NASA’s best minds were tinkering with an idea proposed and experimented with by UK aerospace engineer, Roger Shawyer. He, through his company Satellite Propulsion Research Ltd, first developed...

By Gabriela Marin Thornton and Arwin Rahi For much of its history, Afghanistan has been a battlefield for conflicts over regional influence in what has been called the Great Game. Now a weak state with deep ethnic divisions, located in a challenging security environm...

The last twenty-five years have been a time of growing adversarialism between the emerging concept of sustainability and the economic imperative for continual growth to maintain our consumer society.