Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

For all of science's successes in understanding complex systems, brains are still mostly terra-incognita.

Maybe not for long.

Researchers have published a staggering map of every single neural connection within a section of a fruit flies brain.

And East Africa is suffering an invasion of locusts of nearly biblical proportions.

Hundreds of billions of the insects are threatening food supplies and lives across the entire region.

The sad truth is that much of this plague could have been prevented.

First up, though.

Mr. Moran, not guilty.

Ms. Murkowski.

Yesterday, America's Senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump

on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

He said Donald John Trump be, and he is hereby acquitted of the charges in said articles.

It was the third such trial in the nation's history. In December, the House of Representatives

voted to impeach Mr. Trump after he was accused of soliciting foreign interference in the 2020

election. As Speaker of the House, I solemnly and sadly opened the debate on the impeachment of the

President of the United States. The Senate trial lasted just three weeks and no witnesses were called.

Without objection, the motion is agreed to. The Senate sitting as a court of impeachment stands adjourned,

sign to die.

As had been predicted for so long, Republicans stuck by the president while Democrats voted to remove him.

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