One of the biggest stories to come to the forefront during the opening week of the 2026 Winter Olympics surrounded Ukrainian skeleton pilot Vladyslav Heraskevych, who was banned from competing because of his custom helmet.
Heraskevych wore a…
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A ‘cocktail’ recipe for brain cells — Harvard Gazette
Harvard stem cell biologists have discovered a way to grow the type of brain cells that degenerate in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and suffer damage in spinal cord injuries.
In a paper published in the journal eLife, researchers engineered a cocktail of molecular signals…
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Two Weeks in Review: 26 January—6 February 2026 – EJIL: Talk!
The last two weeks have taken us from headlines to bylines and beyond. Front-page legal questions on USA-Greenland and Russia-Ukraine continue to occupy commentators. While others draw our attention to the lesser thumbed back pages: from colonial-era agreements in contemporary arbitration, and…
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When you do the math, humans still rule — Harvard Gazette
Have reports of AI replacing mathematicians been greatly exaggerated?
Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats — solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, conducting encyclopedic surveys of academic literature, and even finding solutions to some…
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Cognitive scientist explains how we ‘see’ what isn’t real — Harvard Gazette
Imagine this: A person walks into a room and knocks a ball off a table.
Did you imagine the gender of the person? The color of the ball? The position of the person relative to the ball?
Yes and no, says cognitive scientist Tomer Ullman, the Morris Kahn Associate Professor of…
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Breaking chess’s rating stalemate — Harvard Gazette
Here’s a statistical challenge worthy of a grandmaster: How do you create an accurate ranking system when the best players usually don’t win?
This is the conundrum of elite chess. The stronger the players, the greater the odds of the match ending in a draw.
“What ended up…
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Trump the Viking — Russia in Global Affairs
The recent U.S. raid on Caracas has inevitably provoked extreme reactions, ranging sometimes from enthusiasm to—much more often—astonishment and indignation. True, over 80 years of the post-Yalta order the world has got accustomed to cautiously observing…
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Russia’s Place in the World — Russia in Global Affairs
USA and Russia Ready to Face Future
Fyodor A. Lukyanov, Christian Whiton, Mark Simon
As geopolitical tensions persist, the U.S. and Russia appear poised for a prolonged standoff—but could there be a path…
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Here’s What’s Behind the US Shift on EU Allies — Russia in Global Affairs
Even invoking international law has become awkward. Institutions look increasingly irrelevant as political and economic processes unfold demonstrably outside them.
This reaction is understandable. The latest targets of actions that violate the UN Charter and other…
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The Empire Strikes Back: Russia’s Procedural Offensive Before International Courts and Tribunals – EJIL: Talk!
In the immediate aftermath of the Russian invasion on 24 February 2022, Ukraine and its allies turned to international adjudication with remarkable speed and intensity. This early legal mobilisation enabled Ukraine to seize the legal narrative surrounding the conflict, ‘using its smart-power…
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