By Mary M. Hausfeld, Assistant Professor in Management, University of Limerick Jochen Menges, Director of the Center for Leadership in the Future of Work, University of Zurich
Who comes to mind when you think of someone emotionally intelligent? Someone who can read a room, defuse an argument, and who knows exactly what to say when a friend is struggling? For many people, that person is a woman. It’s such a widely held belief that popular psychology treats it as fact. We decided to put that assumption to the test. Our new study reviewed nearly three decades of research, from 1995 to 2023, across 76 countries and more than 600,000 people. We wanted to answer a simple question: are women…
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By Rod Thornton, Senior Lecturer in International Studies, Defence and Security., King's College London
The recent incidents concerning RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire have highlighted that fact that the US military does have quite a significant presence on UK soil. What this presence fully amounts to, though, is unclear. According to news reports there are “at least” 15 US military bases in the UK, while other sources have the figure at 12…
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By Steven Paget, Senior Development Lead (Research and Knowledge Exchange), Anglia Ruskin University
The past few weeks have seen aerial duels being fought over the North Sea and a naval vessel being sunk off Scotland’s west coast. Fortunately this was not a case of hostile combat – these episodes took place during two major multinational military exercises: Exercise Atlantic Thunder and Exercise Cobra Warrior 26-2. Further north, across the Baltic Sea, High North and North Atlantic, British forces have also recently been engaged with allies in Exercise…
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By Jonathan Bamber, Professor of Glaciology and Earth Observation, University of Bristol
A glaciologist reviews a new film covering the ascent of Tenzing Norgay (played by Genden Phuntsok) to the top of Everest in 1953.
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By Charles Lees, Executive Dean, City St George's, University of London
It has been a rollercoaster year for the Green Party of England and Wales. It’s little more than 12 months since the election of the charismatic Zack Polanski as party leader. And months later, the equally charismatic Hannah Spencer became the Greens’ fifth MP. But Polanski couldn’t repeat this win in Keir Starmer’s former constituency of Holborn and St Pancras in London, losing to Labour’s Sagal Abdi-Wali. Back in February, when Spencer won the Greater Manchester seat of Gorton and Denton,…
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By Safiullah Taye, Researcher and sessional academic, Australian Catholic University Farkhondeh Akbari, Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Monash University Niamatullah Ibrahimi, Senior Research Fellow, Initiative for Peacebuilding, The University of Melbourne
Afghanistan’s own democratic aspirations long predate the West’s intervention in 2001. The Taliban’s return dealt a devastating blow, but these aspirations endure.
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By Usman Arief, Dosen dan Peneliti Manajemen, Universitas Gadjah Mada Imam Salehudin, Associate professor, Universitas Indonesia
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, together with Ooredoo Group, Nokia and NVIDIA, plans to develop Zankore, an artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure platform aimed at serving the region. The 1-gigawatt (GW) AI Factory will be built in stages. Its first phase, with a capacity of about 200 megawatts (MW), is scheduled to begin construction in Batang, Central Java, in…
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By Primrose Freestone, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology, University of Leicester
Meal prepping is a great way to save money, spend less time in the kitchen and stick to a meal plan. But while cooking meals for the week ahead may be convenient, there can be real risks associated with eating bulk-cooked meals. It’s not that bulk-cooked meals are inherently a food safety issue. Rather, it comes down to how the food is stored…
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By Francesco Aletta, Associate Professor in Building Physics and Soundscape, UCL
A noise researcher compares London and Copenhagen and takes a closer look at what the countries’ different regulations say about how much noise we accept in cities.
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By Asaf Tzachor, Research Affiliate, Centre for the Study of Existential Risks, University of Cambridge
Parts of the Earth’s climate system can change abruptly once warming pushes them beyond critical thresholds. The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the Amazon rainforest, coral reefs and major ocean currents are all among the systems containing potential climate tipping points. These climate systems are known as tipping elements, and research into them has expanded rapidly. But it has not expanded evenly. In a new…
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