By Laurie A. Garrow, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Major airports across the United States were subject to a 4% reduction in flights on Nov. 7, 2025, as the government shutdown began to affect travelers.
The move by the Federal Aviation Administration is intended to ease pressure on air traffic controllers, many of whom have been working…
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By Andor J. Kiss, Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Miami University
James Dewey Watson is best known for his Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the structure of DNA. Controversy around who should be credited highlights the challenges of scientific collaboration.
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Friday, November 7, 2025
Nearly 100 people in Syria have been abducted or forcibly disappeared since January, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday, calling for greater accountability from the authorities.
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Friday, November 7, 2025
Independent UN human rights investigators have heard first-hand accounts of torture, unlawful detention and the forced transfer of civilians during their first visit to Ukraine in more than a year.
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By Javier Díaz Giménez, Profesor de Economía, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra)
Julián Díaz Saavedra, Associate Professor, Universidad de Granada
In early October 2025, with his political future hanging by a thread, France’s resigned-and-reappointed prime minister Sébastien Lecornu pledged to suspend unpopular pension reforms until 2027, when presidential elections will be held.
Socialist MPs declared victory. The French business community groaned. The…
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By Jeremy Howick, Professor and Director of the Stoneygate Centre for Excellence in Empathic Healthcare, University of Leicester
AI chatbots are outperforming doctors in empathy ratings. But the real story isn’t about robot superiority, it’s about how we’ve broken healthcare.
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By Aiden Hoyle, Assistant Professor in Intelligence and Security, Institute for Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University
When we talk about disinformation – the intentional spreading of misleading information – we usually picture blatant lies and “fake news” pushed by foreign governments. Sometimes the intention is to sway voters in elections, and sometimes it’s to sow confusion in a crisis.
But this is a somewhat simplified version of events. In fact, authoritarian countries, such as Russia and, increasingly, China, are engaged in continuous and more…
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By Abisola Olawale, PhD candidate, Centre for Migration, Diaspora, Citizenship and Identity, University of the West of Scotland
Moving and living abroad is one of the most exhilarating experiences you can have as a young adult. For the tens of thousands of people on youth mobility schemes or simply working abroad, it is a leap that can bring new adventures, career opportunities and friendships.
But underneath the excitement lies something much more complex: the challenge of figuring out your identity when your “home self” and your “new self” begin to evolve side by side.
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By Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Lecturer in Human Geography, University of East Anglia
When you look at the promotional materials advertising luxury high-rise developments in London, it is obvious that the fantasy of living in the sky is fused by a desire for sunlight and “unobstructed” views of the city. Phrases such as “the brightest addition to London’s skyline” or apartments being “flooded with natural light” and offering “expansive sky views” are common.
It is a dream with a dark side, however, which plays out below in the shadows of London’s mushrooming cityscape. In a recent…
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By Adriana Marin, Lecturer in International Relations, Coventry University
When Claudia Sheinbaum — Mexico’s first woman president — was publicly groped during a walkabout recently, her response was striking in its restraint: “If this happens to the president, where does that leave all the young women in our country?”
The phrase ricocheted across Mexico and beyond. It captured both the routine nature of gendered harassment and the profound political…
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