Civil Disobedience in Democracies: Why Citizens May Break the Law
In UA Magazine’s most-read essay of 2019, Tine Madsen dissects the moral questions raised by civil disobedience and its role in liberal democracies. She proposes a new approach to frame civil disobedience in protests of political decisions and the majority’s authority.
Ageing Is a Wicked Problem: Bodies Fail and So Do Societies
Rudi Westendorp discusses the challenges of providing people with better end-of-life care, the way societies look after their elderly, and what can we learn about old age by looking at big data.
The Other Side of the Universe
Ovidiu Racorean writes about the second side of the universe, black holes and entanglement.
Artificial Intelligence to the Rescue: Smart Robots are Coming to your Garden
The new generation of gardening robots may be based on real-time algorithms, artificial intelligence and artificial neural networks. Anil Baslamisli works in collaboration with the TrimBot2020 project to build the perfect trimming machine.
Digging for Dark Matter
Paleo-detectors, rocks as old as one billion years, may help us understand the nature of dark matter, explains the physicist Thomas Edwards in this article.