By Oiwan Lam
In this collaborative article, Global Voices dives into non-binary gender representation traditions from around the world, spanning China, South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and more.
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By Gemma Stacey, Professor of Health and Care System Resilience, Nottingham Trent University
Emma Ireton, Associate Professor, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University
The Ockenden Review into maternity and neonatal services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust was damning. It confirmed what families, staff and previous reviews have been saying for years: the failures in maternity care are serious, repeated and systemic.
The Nottingham review examined more than 2,500 family cases and engaged with more than 830 current and former staff. It found long-standing failures, including…
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By Megan Gandy, Associate Professor of Social Work, West Virginia University
Youth sports have a significant impact on the development of all children. Sports provide children opportunities to build their social skills and confidence, as well as improve their sense of belonging and physical fitness.
What happens to these spaces when adults are given permission to inspect a child’s body to determine their gender?
The Supreme Court rulings on Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. decided that transgender girls cannot play sports that align with their gender…
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By Dan McGrath, Associate Professor of Cryospheric Sciences, Colorado State University
Ashlesha Khatiwada, Ph.D. Candidate in Geoscience, Colorado State University
Scott Hotaling, Assistant Professor of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University
They’re called rock glaciers, and they might not look like much, but they’ll continue to provide meltwater after the world’s iconic white glaciers are gone.
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By David Hone, Senior Lecturer in Zoology, Queen Mary University of London
Museums are supposed to be havens for the collective cultural and scientific heritage of the planet, but specimens sometimes go missing.
Happily, they can also be rediscovered, as a new study shows, with the vertebrae of the legendary predatory shark known to the world under its old name of Megalodon (now properly Otodus megalodon) turning up on a museum shelf decades after they were seemingly lost.
The new paper takes another look at…
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By Caterina Mazzilli, Researcher on migration, ODI Global
The UK’s last six prime ministers have all promised to reduce migration – and now it is happening. The most recent figures show that net migration (the number of people coming to the UK minus the number leaving) was at 171,000 in 2025. This is the lowest point since 2012.
Falling migration may be a political win in a world where both the right and left see it as a top national concern and promise tough measures to “secure borders”. But it…
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By Harsh Trivedi, Teaching Associate French, School of Languages, Arts and Societies., University of Sheffield
I first picked up The Iliad because the cloth-bound red cover, stamped with gold flames, was simply gorgeous. So much for not judging a book by its cover. The Penguin Classics edition sat on my shelf for months before I finally opened it. For years, the text had felt inaccessible, surrounded by a kind of academic gate-keeping that suggested it belonged more to specialists than to ordinary readers.
What I discovered, reading Peter Jones’s 2003 revision of E.V. Rieu’s translation, was something entirely different. The…
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By Adam Taylor, Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
Michelle Swainson, Lecturer in Physiology, Lancaster University
Unregulated peptides sold for muscle gain and anti-ageing carry serious risks, and the evidence suggests women face the greater danger.
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By Christian Knoblauch, Senior Lecturer in Egyptology, Swansea University
The exhibition is the product of the British Museum in Your Classroom programme where schools get access to the institution’s collection
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By Nicolas Decat, Doctorant, Sorbonne Université
Delphine Oudiette, Chercheure en neurosciences cognitives, Inserm
Dream-like states are not confined to sleep: the brain is able, very surprisingly, to produce the same mental experience independently of our state of vigilance.
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