August 2026
All columns and Brief analyses.
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Ballot paper, runway and border strip: four claims around Russia
Yabloko loses its federal list, US officials link a Leipzig drone bomb to Russia while Berlin holds back, Moscow warns over Transnistria, and Zelenskyy claims a new North Korean missile batch.
Bonds and revocations at the visa gate: US entry narrows on two fronts
Papua New Guinea contests a 20,000 dollar visa bond as the State Department says more than 175,000 visas have been revoked under Trump.
Bone tools, water channels and a sarcophagus open three scales of past life
Bone tools in Romania illuminate everyday work, Colombian canals reveal organised communal labour, and an Aspendos sarcophagus links one burial to the imagery of its city.
Colombia's Golan decision meets diplomatic resistance
Colombia became the second country to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Israel welcomed the move, while Syria and Saudi Arabia objected on international-law grounds.
Digital-asset losses, tokenised gold rules and a CME futures flip
CoinDesk reported Trump Media's half-year digital-asset losses, British work on tokenised gold rules, and a rare net-long shift by leveraged funds in CME bitcoin futures as three separate market layers.
Engineered transferases and a T-cell microRNA atlas each show selective molecular targeting
Manchester artificial allylic transferases exceed 99 per cent conversion on key bonds, while a mouse atlas maps 110 microRNAs that separate inflammatory from regulatory T cells.
Enterprise AI's new controls: region choice, air gaps, and a self-hosted gateway
Mistral makes inference regions selectable, GitHub brings the Copilot command line into air-gapped networks, and AWS documents a Claude apps gateway running inside an organization's own cloud environment.
Genetic variation at two extremes: fast-changing centromeres and a narrowing corn pool
Human centromeres emerged among the genome's fastest-changing regions, while yield-related diversity has become thin in a commercially important breeding pool across the US Corn Belt.
Global CO2, a US July peak and European river lows arrived as separate measurements
A global State of the Climate report, a US July temperature peak and European river-flow lows report heat and water at three different measurement scales.
Growing revenue, three different profit pictures
eToro, Middleby and Ceragon expanded revenue or customer accounts, while profit, margin and adjusted measures showed that growth reached their financial statements differently.