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A recent article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, focusing on global energy policy, reaches a surprising conclusion: the main strategic beneficiary of the war in the Middle East initiated by the Trump administration may well be China. At first glance, this seems paradoxical. China is the world’s largest importer of oil and would therefore [ ]
In recente articolo del Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, attento alle politiche energetiche, arriva a una conclusione sorprendente: il principale beneficiario strategico della guerra in Medio Oriente avviata dall’amministrazione Trump sarebbe la Cina. A prima vista sembra un paradosso. La Cina è infatti il maggiore importatore di petrolio e dovrebbe essere uno dei paesi più vulnerabili [ ]
A recent Nature article captures the current debate very well: can Europe take advantage of the crisis affecting research in the United States and become a scientific superpower? The author’s answer is perhaps—but only under certain conditions. The article begins by discussing the European Commission’s Choose Europe initiative, launched in response to funding cuts and political interference in…
In this work we have constrained the geometry of the dark matter distribution in the Milky Way using the latest GAIA data. by Francesco Sylos Labini and Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta Published 2026 July 7 • © 2026. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 1005, Number 2 DOI: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae7be7 Citation…
Un recente articolo di Nature fotografa molto bene il dibattito attuale: l’Europa può approfittare della crisi della ricerca negli Stati Uniti per diventare una superpotenza scientifica? La risposta dell’autrice è forse, ma solo a determinate condizioni. [ ] l’articolo assume implicitamente che più ricerca ⇒ più innovazione, mentre il problema è molto più profondo: riguarda l’assenza di una…
The energy transition has emerged as one of the defining battlegrounds of twenty-first-century geopolitics. Whereas the United States continues to base its strategy on fossil fuels, the petrodollar, and the doctrine of “energy dominance,” China has built its approach around industrial planning, green technologies, and technological self-sufficiency. Continues on My Substack
La transizione energetica si pone come terreno decisivo della competizione geopolitica. Se la strategia americana è centrata su fonti fossili, petrodollaro e “energy dominance”, quella cinese è fondata su pianificazione industriale, tecnologie verdi e autonomia tecnologica. Il National Security Strategy (NSS) è il principale documento strategico con cui il Presidente degli Stati Uniti definisce la…
View Post(opens in a new tab) Modern cosmology rests on a simple assumption: if we look on large enough scales, matter should be distributed evenly, with no preferred direction within the cosmos. This is known as the cosmological principle. Now, as new telescopes both on Earth and in space, such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument [ ]
Un estudio basado en 47 millones de galaxias encontró que la red cósmica conserva patrones a escalas gigantescas, lo que podría obligar a revisar un pilar de la cosmología, si futuros estudios lo confirman. Uno de los pilares sobre los que se construye la cosmología moderna podría empezar a tambalearse. Un estudio publicado en Nature encontró evidencia [ ]
Europe’s renewed militarism is the other side of the coin of its technological decline. Europe has remained largely absent from almost every strategic technology sector of the twenty-first century. It does not produce advanced semiconductors on any significant scale. It has failed to create smartphones capable of competing globally. It does not control the major [ ]