Iran has “substantially increased efforts to target US personnel” in the Middle East and other areas, the US national intelligence director has warned in a memo seen by the BBC. Jay Clayton’s assessment come as the US State Department makes adjustments to staffing at diplomatic posts in the region, including the ordered departure earlier this
Carol Graham built her career on measuring happiness. Lately, the numbers keep pulling her somewhere darker. “I used to work on happiness and I seem to work more on despair now,” she told Fortune. “So that’s not great, but that’s the state we’re in.” Graham is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings
Earlier in August, cryptography professor Matthew Green wrote a controversial thread on X and a longer blog post that went viral within the cybersecurity community. Green, who has long been a close observer of the debate around the use of hacking tools by governments to fight crime and the need for strong encryption to protect
Three years ago, Andrew Stockwell had his hiring routine down to a science. As head of people for the software-buying company Vendr, Stockwell posted a listing, waited a few days, and then reviewed a few dozen applications—up to 100, if he was lucky. Recruiters identified other potential candidates, adding a few more applicants to the
A couple of months ago, just after sunrise, 40-year-old Mamta began the first of as many as 10 journeys she would make that day. Carrying three empty plastic buckets, she walked a few hundred metres to the nearest handpump in her village in Jalaun district, in the drought-prone Bundelkhand region of northern India. Temperatures in
Most people experience constipation at some point in their lives. For astronauts, it’s a common occurrence. The problem is that no one knew exactly why. Now, science seems to have figured out the No. 1 reason why astronauts have problems going No. 2 in space. Research dating back nearly three decades has explored the effects
