By Ed Turner, Reader in Politics, Co-Director, Aston Centre for Europe, Aston University
The results of Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt state election on September 6 were far worse than feared for the country’s mainstream political parties. The far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) came close to winning a majority of votes, with 43.8%. This was about 4% higher than polls had suggested.
Support for the centre-right Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), on the other hand, imploded. It won 17.2% of the vote, down from 37.1% in 2021, performing substantially worse than predicted.
At nearly 78%, turnout was up substantially compared with 2021 – in a way that…
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By Carolyn Yule, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Guelph
Kaitlin Humer, PhD student, Criminology, University of Guelph
Research suggests cash bail is ineffective in ensuring those accused of crimes honour their bail conditions. Deterrence cannot be bought.
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By Eric Galbraith, Research Professor, Experimental Sciences & Mathematics, ICREA; McGill University
Exceeding 1.5 C of global warming is a giant warning flag telling us not to give up, but to redouble our efforts to slam on the brakes on climate change.
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By Crystena A. H. Parker-Shandal, Associate Professor, Social Development Studies, University of Waterloo
The very tool that generates disinformation and slop could also, when used well, be a catalyst for teaching youth to listen.
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By Maureen MacDonald, Professor of Kinesiology and Provost and Vice President Academic, McMaster University
The assumption that has kept women out of so many physiology studies for years — uncertainty about potential fluctuations due to menstrual cycles or hormonal birth control — turns out to be incorrect.
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By Michelle Spear, Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol
You’ve just finished eating lunch and you’re back at your desk, ready to dive into the rest of the day’s work. Yet by 3pm, you find your eyes starting to droop. Before long, the only thing you can think about is how much you’d like to take a nap.
The “afternoon slump” (also sometimes called the “3pm slump”) is a common experience. It’s that distinct…
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By Christian Dunn, Professor in Natural Sciences, Bangor University
Most of the countryside around the Holnicote estate in Somerset has been dry and dusty for most of the summer. But one corner remains conspicuously green.
Here in south-west England, an animal that was made extinct in Britain in the 16th century, mostly because of hunting, is making a comeback. Reintroduced just six years ago, beavers have helped turn a small watercourse on the estate into a wet meadow – a true oasis amid the parched landscape.
It is an Instagram-worthy example…
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By Jordan Beaumont, Senior Lecturer in Food and Nutrition, Sheffield Hallam University
US defence secretary Pete Hegseth has been criticised after sharing a photograph of two people in uniform from a Canadian youth cadet programme with the caption “this is real”. The image showed a teenage cadet receiving a medal from someone reported to be a volunteer instructor.
The post was widely interpreted as mocking their appearance. The civilian Army Cadet League of Canada accused Hegseth of online harassment, saying…
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By Joanna Syrda, Assistant Professor in Management, University of Bath
Is someone in poverty if they can afford food, housing and the things they really need, but not other things most people take for granted? Answering this question requires a judgment about where an acceptable standard of living ends and poverty begins.
Statistics can tell us how many people live in those circumstances, but not whether those circumstances should count as poverty. Even the categories themselves are not self-evident: deciding what is a need, and what is merely taken for granted, is itself part…
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By Rémi Lamontagne-Caron, Candidat au doctorat en sciences cliniques et biomédicales, Université Laval
Our understanding of the causes of Alzheimer’s disease is evolving. Recent discoveries have revealed the important role of the cerebral vascular system.
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