By Neil Saunders, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Department of Mathematical Sciences, City St George's, University of London
Once again, maths is the most popular A-level subject. There were 115,380 entries in the subject in 2026, an increase of 3.9% from 2025. Further maths AS-level entries enjoyed an 8.5% increase from 2025 as well.
Moreover, recently published data…
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By Julian L. Gallegos, Assistant Professor of Nursing, Purdue University
Wildland firefighters face heat from the environment, the fire and their own bodies as they work long, exhausting hours. The head of Purdue’s fire lab explains the health risks and what can help.
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By Ashwin R. Vasavada, Project Scientist, Mars Science Laboratory, NASA
Each day in the control room of the Curiosity rover is jam-packed with important scientific decisions, as a NASA project scientist describes.
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By Don Figer, Professor and Director of the Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory, Rochester Institute of Technology
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will take a broad survey of space and use it to create a map of the universe.
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By Khalid Beshir, Lecturer in Biomedical Science, University of East London
A mosquito bite may seem like a minor summer irritation, but it reflects a complex interaction taking place in the immune system.
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By Monica Duffy Toft, Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Navy readiness is a finite reserve that has been overstretched by a US military appetite for interventions in the past 50 years that has not tracked with a rise in danger.
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By Barry Langford, Professor of Film Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
For Willem Dafoe’s Ed, being part of an artistic coterie after decades as a forgotten poet is like the pleasurable twitch of a phantom limb.
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By Prayan Pokharel, Research scientist, University of Hohenheim
A few months ago, a friend of mine told me that his father-in-law had been rushed to the hospital after eating some wild honey brought back from the hills of Nepal.
Within about 30 minutes, his heart rate had dropped dangerously low and his blood pressure had collapsed. He recovered, but the episode was terrifying for the whole family.
As a chemical ecologist from Nepal, I knew immediately what had happened. My friend’s father-in-law had eaten wild…
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By Hillary Lum, GUIDE Medical Director/Practitioner, University of Colorado Anschutz
Latino Americans are 1.5 times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than white Americans, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.
In Colorado, nearly a quarter of the overall population identifies as Hispanic or Latino. As Coloradans age, more individuals and families in these communities will be affected by dementia.
Today approximately 11,000 of the…
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By Jeffrey C. Dixon, Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross
Do artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT eliminate jobs, create new ones, or both? There’s a lot of speculation regarding this question, but little solid data in the U.S. to answer it.
I’m a sociologist who researches AI, among other topics. Seeking answers to that question and others, I commissioned an online survey by YouGov, a market research agency, to ask 1,250 U.S. workers between July 30 and Aug. 4, 2026, about their experiences with AI and…
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