By Sally Christine Reynolds, Associate Professor in Hominin Palaeoecology, Bournemouth University
Autumn walks in Britain are glorious, as the foliage changes colour and cool crisp air begins to bite. However, some of these European trees hide a much darker secret. For example, the yew tree’s lovely red arils – the cup-shaped coverings around the seeds – carry toxins that may have been used to poison arrow tips in the past.
A new Danish study has shown that the “smoking gun” is not the poison itself, but the size of the small arrowheads used to deliver the toxin into the
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By Emma L. Briant, Visiting Associate Professor at the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, University of Notre Dame
A New Mexico judge’s fine hit Meta for deception about the data privacy violations, not for the harm they caused. A researcher who helped uncover the scandal explains.
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By Lesedi Senamele Matlala, Monitoring & Evaluation Scholar-Practitioner, University of Johannesburg
Community developers make a complicated state easier for citizens to navigate – and community experiences harder for government to overlook.
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By Freddy Ruzhani, PhD Candidate, University of Fort Hare
Abbyssinia Mushunje, Professor, University of Fort Hare
In rural development, the conventional wisdom has for decades been simple: households are better off when they have more than one way of making a living. Diversify, spread your risk, and you’ll be more resilient.
Our research in north-eastern Zimbabwe suggests this is only half true, and that beyond a certain point, adding more income-generating activities can actually make households poorer. The goal for policymakers should therefore be to support and enable households to diversify…
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By Akeem Adeyemi Oladipo, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Research Scientist in the Polymeric Materials Research Laboratory, Eastern Mediterranean University
European countries want north Africa to set up green hydrogen industries for them, but this will come at a huge cost to water supplies and coastal areas.
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By Gabriel Marmentini, Policy Leader Fellow at the Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute
Brazil has just made civic education compulsory in schools. Whether it takes hold will depend less on the law than on what happens in the classroom.
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By Tiara Sukhan, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Western University
Allegations against Thomas Markle expose how the British media turned a father-daughter estrangement into a narrative in which the silence of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, was used to demonize her.
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By Sara Gordon, Associate Professor of Law, University of British Columbia
Research shows that ‘sniffer dogs’ have a high rate of false alerts. They are also impacted by the unconscious racial biases of their handlers.
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By Janet Godsell, Dean and Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy, Loughborough Business School, Loughborough University
Anna Mate, Research Associate, UK Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence Centre, Loughborough University
Three decades after ICI was broken up in the clamour for a knowledge economy, UK chemicals output is down 60% in five years.
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By Pippa Catterall, Professor of History and Policy, University of Westminster
The ritualised burning of the debris of the year can be dated back to pre-Christian times. Food was always an important part of the merrymaking.
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