By Lara El Mekaui, Research Fellow, FUTUREMIG — Futures of Migration and Mobility project, Toronto Metropolitan University
Distance does not necessarily protect immigrants from wars happening abroad. Instead, global connectivity embeds the stress and strain of these conflict zones in their daily lives.
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By Breyten Van der Merwe, PhD student, Stellenbosch University
Alexander Bradshaw, Postdoc, mycologist and evolutionary biologist, Clark University
“Magic mushrooms” are consumed recreationally and for medicinal purposes around the world. These fungi gained their fame as “magic” because they produce chemical compounds (called psilocybin and psilocin) which have psychedelic effects.
The most famous species of these mushrooms, due to their global distribution and ease of cultivation, is Psilocybe cubensis, known primarily…
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By Abeer Elshater, Professor of Urban Morphology, Ain Shams University
Hisham Abusaada, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Housing and Building National Research Center
Cities are often described as living archives of human memory. Walk through an old neighbourhood in an Islamic city like Fez in Morocco or Cairo in Egypt, and you can see layers of history in its streets and buildings. Traces of the past remain visible in everyday life.
Urban historians sometimes call this a palimpsest – a place where layers of history remain visible, like old writing faintly showing beneath new text.
But in many parts…
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By Segun Fatumo, Professor and Chair of Genomic Diversity, Queen Mary University of London
Every minute your kidneys are hard at work, filtering around 200 litres of blood, removing waste, balancing salts and fluids, and regulating blood pressure. This happens without any conscious effort on your part.
But when your kidneys begin to fail, the consequences are devastating, including fatigue, fluid buildup and heart complications. Some people eventually need dialysis or a transplant to stay alive.
Kidney disease is one of the fastest-growing…
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By Marcus Mazzucco, Adjunct Lecturer in Sports Law, University of Toronto
Jensen Brehaut, JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada recently announced the outcome of its investigation into the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), concluding a years-long examination of the organization’s data-sharing practices.
The investigation followed a complaint that we filed with the Privacy Commissioner. We alleged WADA violated Canadian privacy law by disclosing athletes’ doping data…
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By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
If you have teenagers in your life, they’ll probably have heard of the PSL scale. Or at least the language…
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By Zsofia Bocskay, Postdoctoral Researcher, CEU Democracy Institute, Central European University
For the first time since Victor Orbán came to power in 2010, the Hungarian electorate has been faced with a genuinely competitive campaign
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By Fabian Stephany, Assistant Professor, AI and Work, University of Oxford
It’s not all bad news – some freelancers are earning more than ever since generative AI came on the scene.
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By Lucy E. Hyde, Lecturer, Anatomy, University of Bristol
The human body is often described as a marvel of “perfect design”: elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, when we look closer, a rather different picture emerges.
Far from being a flawless machine, the body reads more like a patchwork of compromises shaped by millions of years of evolutionary tinkering. Evolution does not design structures from scratch. Rather, it modifies what already exists.
As a result, many aspects of human anatomy are just “good enough” solutions – functional, but far from perfect. Some of the most familiar medical problems and…
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By Gokcay Balci, Lecturer in Sustainable Freight Transport and Logistics, University of Leeds
Ebru Surucu-Balci, Assistant Professor in Circular Supply Chains, University of Bradford
The war in Iran has led to a global energy crisis. Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a major energy chokepoint that handles roughly 20% of the world’s oil, has been largely blocked by Iran since hostilities broke out in late February. This has, at times, caused oil prices to rise above US$100 a barrel.
As the primary customers of Gulf energy, Asian economies are being hit particularly hard by this crisis. According to figures published by the International Energy Agency in…
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