By James Skinner, Dean Newcastle Business School/Professor of Sport Business, University of Newcastle
Danny F Hill, Assistant Professor Finance, Providence College
The cheating scandal has caused political ripples across the UK and UAE and highlights how geopolitical interests can threaten sporting independence.
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By Kerry Fanson, Head of Wildlife Conservation and Reproductive Endocrinology Lab, La Trobe University
Phoebe Edwards, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University
Cortisol has been cast as a modern health villain, seeking to slowly destroy you. But it’s actually a critical hormone.
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By Fiona Petchey, Associate Professor and Director, Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Te Aka Mātuatua-School of Science, University of Waikato
Radiocarbon dating at two archaeological sites shows how early settlers adapted to life in Aotearoa, with some economic changes happening sooner than thought.
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By Laurent Bonnefoy, CNRS research fellow, Center for International Studies, Sciences Po
A deadly bombing at Riyadh’s international airport is the latest in a tit-for-tat retaliation campaign the Houthis have ramped up for weeks.
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By Jonathan W. Chipman, Director, The Citrin Family GIS/Applied Spatial Analysis Lab, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College
Botanists and ecologists have noticed changes in the northern Appalachian Mountains. More trees and small shrubs are growing in the alpine zones. Will they crowd out alpine plants?
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By Peter Jordan, Professor of Archaeology, Lund University
Even in dire circumstances, people and communities have choices about how best they can adjust, collaborate and forge new social structures.
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By Kanika Samuels-Wortley, Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Ontario Tech University
The first time my home security system flagged me as an animal, I was sitting at my patio table with my morning coffee a few years ago. I figured it was a glitch. A few months later, it happened again as I walked across the yard to catch the afternoon sun.
More recently, while I was on vacation, the same system logged my South Asian teenaged neighbour, whom I’d hired to cut the grass, as an animal too. This has never happened to my husband, who is white. Two racialized people appear to produce one pattern.
My son, who is in elementary school, also told me he couldn’t chat…
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By Eden Hoffer, PhD Candidate, Health Information Science, Western University
Karen A. Campbell, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, York University, Canada
Technology that predicts when someone might experience intimate partner violence can undermine a survivor’s control over whether, when and how they share their abuse,
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By Joshua M. Pearce, John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation and Professor, Western University
A national, open-source operating system could help reduce Canada’s dependence on the U.S. while improving security and saving a surprising amount of money.
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By Peter McDonald, Honorary Professor of Demography, Centre for Health Policy, The University of Melbourne
One Nation, the Coalition and Labor have all released migration plans in the last month. How do they compare to one another?
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