By Roi Zur, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
Eitan Tzelgov, Associate Professor, University of East Anglia
The Israeli political system presently revolves around three blocs jockeying for position after the election failed to provide a decisive outcome.
Based on the latest figures – which are likely to change as absentee ballots and army votes are counted – the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, currently leads a coalition based around his own party, Likud, which will have 26 seats in the new parliament, or Knesset.
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By Andrew Payne, Senior Lecturer in Foreign Policy and Security, City St George's, University of London
When voters enter polling booths across the United States next week to cast their ballots in the midterm elections, very few will be thinking explicitly about foreign policy.
In a recent survey by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, many people across the political spectrum named inflation and the cost of living as the issue which would affect the way they planned to vote…
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By Eoin McLaughlin, Professor in Economics, University College Cork
Months after the US and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran, the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed. The UK chose not to get directly involved in the conflict. Nonetheless, it has been exposed to the crisis through record-high diesel prices as well as a spike in inflation.
This echoes an earlier crisis in the Middle East, as my recent research illustrates.
Seventy years ago, the Egyptian government…
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By Peter Nelson Lindfield, Lecturer in Architectural History, Cardiff University
Threateningly ill-defined buildings, enough for our imagination to fill in the gaps, seem to be the ideal catalyst to spark terror.
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By Rae Gillibrand, Lecturer, Premodern History, University of Leeds
Long before modern medicine could name the invisible terrors ravaging Victorian Britain, the public found a face for contagion: the vampire.
A new exhibition at the University of Leeds’s Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery, Quite Shameless: Cultural Reflections on the Vampire, explores how this supernatural predator became a stand-in for the period’s deepest anxieties about disease, contagion and contaminated air. The exhibition brings together…
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By Michelle Spear, Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol
It’s three in the morning. You’ve woken from a dead sleep because you’ve heard a thud in the darkness or a floorboard creaking downstairs. Or perhaps you’ve woken because you have the unmistakable sensation you’re not alone.
During daylight, these phenomena might be dismissed as the heating, your neighbours or the sounds of an old house settling. But in the middle of the night they can feel a tad more sinister.
Your mind might immediately start reeling, jumping to the worst case scenario – wondering if you’ve been broken into, or if you’re being haunted by some supernatural…
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By Ciro Civile, Associate Professor, Psychology, University of Exeter
Flipping photos upside down usually exposes a bias in how we see women’s bodies. A weak current to the forehead made it disappear.
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By Azwihangwisi Judith Mphidi, Adjunct Academic, University of South Africa
When the South African Police Service tolerates retaliation against ethical officers, it weakens the institutional integrity required to confront corruption.
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By Alex Bertacchi, Engineer in Mass Spectrometry and Stable Isotope Research, University of Kiel
Jessica C. Thompson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
The bones of animals at an archaeological site in Malawi show that food was scarce over the last 21,000 years, but people didn’t cooperate far and wide to get it.
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By Alexandre Pellan Cheng, Professeur agrégé, departement de genie des systèmes, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)
A simple blood test to detect cancer before symptoms even appear: that’s the promise of liquid biopsy, a rapidly developing technology that could revolutionize the diagnosis, monitoring and personalization of cancer treatments.** –
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