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The effects of spaceflight on human brains
A new study published in Frontiers in Neural Circuits is the first to analyze the structural connectivity changes that happen in the brain after long-duration spaceflight....
Treating babies with antibiotics in the first week of life decrease healthy bacteria to...
Treating babies with antibiotics in the first week of life is linked with a decrease in healthy bacteria necessary amongst others to digest milk...
Bab el-Mandeb: When Maritime Chokepoint Risk Becomes Digital-System Risk
Scope — This assessment examines the Bab el-Mandeb–Red Sea–Suez system as a converged maritime-security environment in which Houthi missile and unmanned-system capabilities, merchant-shipping exposure,...
North Korea’s September 20 Weapon Test: From Missile Expansion to a More Complex Regional...
Scope — This assessment examines the DPRK weapon activity of 20 September 2026, the subsequent North Korean claim that a “new-type weapon” was successfully...
Iran’s Distributional Stress Test: War Finance – Household Exposure and the Resilience Gap with...
Scope: This assessment examines how war, sanctions, financial isolation, energy and trade disruption are transmitting into Iranian household welfare in 2025–2026, compares the transmission...
EU Cyber Resilience Act Reporting Rules Go Live as ENISA’s Single Reporting Platform Changes...
Scope: This assessment examines the Cyber Resilience Act reporting regime now applicable across the European Union, the operational launch of European Union Agency for...
Iran’s Prolonged-War Posture: Expanding the Battlespace Without Seeking a Conventional War of Attrition
Scope: This assessment examines Iran’s September 2026 declaration that it is prepared for prolonged conflict, evaluates what the IRGC’s stated intention to “change the...
Belgian F-35 Integration Accelerates Complete F-16 Fleet Transfer to Ukraine Amid Procurement Delays
This assessment examines the operational and industrial linkage between the Belgian Air Component’s ongoing reception of Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II aircraft and the...
China’s AI Strategy Is Moving Beyond Models Toward Global Ecosystem Power
Scope: This assessment examines whether China’s 2025–2026 international artificial-intelligence initiatives constitute a strategic attempt to build an alternative global AI ecosystem around capacity-building, standards,...
AI Training – Copyright and the Publisher Substitution Risk
Scope: This assessment examines the legal, economic and regulatory consequences of generative-AI training on copyrighted text and journalism, with particular attention to the September...
Saudi mBridge Withdrawal: SAMA Exits China-Led CBDC Platform Amid Geopolitical Scrutiny
This assessment examines the Saudi Central Bank’s withdrawal from the mBridge multi-CBDC platform following its May 2025 proof-of-concept, evaluating the implications for alternative cross-border...
Brazil’s Rare-Earth Sovereignty Test: U.S.-Backed Capital, Serra Verde and the New Strategic-Minerals Regime
Scope: Brazil and the United States, with the Venezuela resource strategy used only where the verified official record establishes a relevant institutional comparison; principal...
Italy’s Energy-Intensive Industry Shock: Preventing a Temporary Gas Crisis from Becoming Permanent Deindustrialisation
Scope: Italy, with comparative EU, French, German and United Kingdom lenses, covering the present gas-price shock and the policy horizon to 2031, with specific...
China’s Global Technology Supply Chains: State-Backed Resource, Manufacturing and Logistics Networks Behind Strategic Industrial...
Scope: This first-delivery assessment examines the worldwide architecture through which Chinese state-owned, state-backed and formally state-linked entities secure strategic resources, overseas industrial capacity, logistics...
Greenland Trilateral Security Framework: Sovereignty – Basing and Great-Power Denial
Scope: Assessment of the trilateral United States–Denmark–Greenland security understandings announced on September 18, 2026, examining sovereign jurisdiction, military basing prerogatives, mineral denial mechanisms, and...
Trump EPA Power-Plant CO₂ Rollback: What Actually Changes—and What Survives
Scope: This assessment examines the United States federal power-sector greenhouse-gas rollback announced and signed on 14 September 2026, its interaction with emissions measurement, carbon-related...
US EPA Repeals Power Plant GHG Rules: Legal, Trade and Climate Implications
This assessment evaluates the domestic legal architecture, international trade exposure and environmental consequences of the Trump administration's September 2026 repeal of federal greenhouse gas...
