A 2024 report in Current Biology underscores the relationship between learning and a good night’s sleep, but from a different perspective: the changes in how brain cells are connected. Some synapses are in brain regions associated with learning and memory, and sleep deprivation hurts these synapses Theories explaining these connections have prima

The resulting China–Indonesia joint statement indicated that career diplomats at the Foreign Ministry had either been sidelined or not consulted. It also highlighted the absence of foreign policy experts in the president’s inner circle Overall, the joint statement puts Indonesia in an awkward position. It is keen to secure Chinese economic assi

Keynesians believed that a weaker euro would boost Germany’s exports, but this is a myth. Export leaders rise thanks to high added value, not low cost. In any case, all the interventionist policies adopted by the European Union would leave a weak currency and an even weaker economy The second lethal mistake was its energy policy. High energy cost

which was long at the heart of the Kremlin’s strategy of keeping economic influence over Ukraine, and his role as one of the few businessmen to regularly visit the Berdymukhamedovs, the wider as-of-yet-unpublicized details of the deal that was struck for his delisting may prove helpful to Western policymakers seeking to counter regional Russian e

following the Kremlin’s introduction of conscription in September 2022. Then, the trade changes that the region has experienced in 2023 and 2024 can be more fully appreciated, and the importance of the region going forward can be understood The economic battlefield has shifted from managing the fallout of Putin’s weaponization of hydrocarbon su