By Martin Warren, Chief Scientific Officer and Group Leader, Synthetic Biology and Biosynthetic Pathways, Quadram Institute
A century after liver was found to treat pernicious anaemia, scientists are still uncovering how vitamin B12 helps blood, nerves and cells.
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By Laure Leglise, Lecturer, Sustainability and Strategy, Manchester Metropolitan University
James Scott Vandeventer, Senior Lecturer in Sustainability, Manchester Metropolitan University
The landscape on the remote Isle of Lewis is striking: a mix of rugged terrain, peatlands, moorlands, lochs, sandy beaches and cliffs.
This island at the northern end of the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, has one of the UK’s highest levels of fuel poverty and a declining population of fewer than 20,000 people. Encircled by the Atlantic and exposed…
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By Rebecca Ellis, Assistant Researcher in Public Health, Swansea University
You have a 3pm appointment. It’s now 10am and somehow your entire day already feels out of reach. Maybe you find yourself unable to start anything properly. You feel on edge, waiting for something to begin, or end. You check the time again and again. Even a positive, planned event, like a friend visiting later, can leave you feeling stuck.
For many neurodivergent people, this experience has a name: “waiting mode”.
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By Arun Dawson, PhD Candidate, Department of War Studies, King's College London
The effective collapse of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) fighter jet programme is a major setback for European defence cooperation.
France, Germany and Spain have spent nearly a decade trying to develop what was intended to become Europe’s premier next-generation combat aircraft, only for the programme to succumb to disputes over leadership, the distribution of work and intellectual property.
Yet Europeans shouldn’t be surprised. The history of European combat aviation is littered with…
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By Thomas Caygill, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Nottingham Trent University
John Healey resigned as defence secretary following continued disagreement between Downing Street, the Treasury and the Ministry of Defence over the defence investment plan. Healey said the plan falls “well short of what is required for defence and the country at this dangerous time”.
His departure on June 11 was followed by Al Carns’ resignation as armed forces minister. Carns said in a letter to Keir Starmer that the funding plan is “not built for the threat…
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By David W. Versailles, Professor, strategic management and innovation management, co-director of the new PICchair at the Paris School of Business - research director LSB - VP EURAM Dialogue with Practitioners, European Academy of Management (EURAM); PSB Paris School of Business
The collapse of the Future Combat Air System programme led by France and Germany highlights how diverging national interests and coordination difficulties are challenging European armament cooperation.
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By Andreas Krieg, Associate Professor, Defence Studies Department, King's College London
The US and Iran stepped back from the brink of returning to all-out war on June 11. Hours after saying the US military would carry out strikes against Iran for a third consecutive night, Donald Trump postponed the attack. The Iranian military had said the US would “receive a more severe response than before” if it followed through on its threats.
Trump claimed to have cancelled the strikes because of progress in negotiations between the two countries. In a statement posted on social media,…
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By Charles J. Dimitroff, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Florida International University
Lee Seng Lau, Postdoctoral Associate in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Florida International University
CAR-T therapy engineers a patient’s own immune cells to fight cancer. Making these cels more resilient can make treatments more effective.
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By Anjana Susarla, Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
Some technology and policy watchers were surprised when President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 2, 2026, establishing a framework for AI security. It seemed to move in a different direction from a December…
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By Christopher Briem, Regional Economist, University Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh
Few city planning concepts are as sacrosanct as the idea that growth is good and decline is bad.
For cities and counties, population growth is universally seen as a metric that defines success. Even stable population trends can be cast as stagnation to be avoided at all costs.
The Pittsburgh region illustrates the problem with that thinking. Between 2020 and 2025 the city of Pittsburgh added…
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