Global Perspectives

AI-powered Siri, Cortana, Alexa and other virtual assistants have a gender bias problem

As research has shown, there is a critical link between the development of AI systems which display gender bias and the lack of women in teams that design them.

World Environment Day 2019: Air pollution can have a clear bearing on how happy you are

The WHO estimates that around 7 million deaths are attributable to air pollution each year.

Space junk, astrobiology, law: Hottest space sciences that will explode in 2019

2019 will be big for all things space, going by the International Astronautical Congress this year.