By Sara Gordon, Associate Professor of Law, University of British Columbia
Research shows that ‘sniffer dogs’ have a high rate of false alerts. They are also impacted by the unconscious racial biases of their handlers.
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By Janet Godsell, Dean and Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy, Loughborough Business School, Loughborough University
Anna Mate, Research Associate, UK Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence Centre, Loughborough University
Three decades after ICI was broken up in the clamour for a knowledge economy, UK chemicals output is down 60% in five years.
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By Pippa Catterall, Professor of History and Policy, University of Westminster
The ritualised burning of the debris of the year can be dated back to pre-Christian times. Food was always an important part of the merrymaking.
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By Daniel Carey, Chair Professor School of English, Media and Creative Arts, University of Galway
On Gulliver’s third travel he meets the Projectors who have come up with a device that is surprisingly similar to our modern large language models.
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By Martin Waehlisch, Associate Professor, University of Birmingham
Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
The dream of a Canada-EU “middle-power bloc” has hit its first serious obstacle. At the Montreal summit, Brussels failed to deliver on the promise of associate membership for Canada, despite the enthusiastic backing of European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen.
Instead, the EU offered the hollow consolation of “an ever-closer association”, raising an uncomfortable question about whether the middle powers can overcome their own divisions to become a serious geopolitical force.
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By Kaisa Pankakoski, Research Associate in Sociolinguistics, Cardiff University
Research with Welsh-speaking families reveals a generational shift, while experiences in Finland show the problem is not unique to Wales.
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By Martin Lundsteen, Investigador Ramón y Cajal en Antropología Social, Universitat de Barcelona
Housing shortages and soaring rents are central to Spain’s upcoming general election. As each party presents voters with ways of addressing the crisis, far right party Vox is backing a simple solution: the principle of prioridad nacional, or “national priority”, which would put Spaniards first in line to receive government benefits.
The policy is central to Vox’s programme. It proposes expanding social housing with priority for Spanish nationals, alongside deregulation and tax reductions.
It is presented as a common sense solution, but national priority does not…
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By Peter Stenvinkel, Professor of Nephrology, Karolinska Institutet
The 2026 Lancet Countdown reveals the growing health toll of extreme heat, while references to climate and health in UN speeches have declined.
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By Nadiya N. Ali, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Trent University
Ayesha Mian Akram, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary
Nour Hammami, Assistant Professor, Trent University
Decades of research on peer-to-peer maltreatment in childhood and adolescence, together with anti-bullying advocacy, have established bullying as a serious public health, educational and mental health issue.
Looking at the long-term harms of bullying, psychologist Dieter Wolke and his colleagues found that “victims of childhood bullying, including those that bullied others (bully-victims), were at increased risk of poor health, wealth and social-relationship…
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By Anna Hargreaves, Professor of Conservation Ecology & Evolution, McGill University
Jennifer Sunday, Canada Research Chair, Global Change BIology, McGill University
Jory Griffith, Doctoral Student, Environmental Policy, ETH Zurich
Tropical ecosystems are famous for their teeming, exuberant diversity. In fact, the dramatic increase in biodiversity from the poles to the tropics — known as the latitudinal diversity gradient — is pervasive across branches of the tree of life, and fossil evidence suggests it has existed for millennia.
It might seem that if anything could be immune to human disruption, it would be the latitudinal diversity gradient. But human impacts on nature are also global, pervasive…
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