By Obasesam Okoi, Associate professor, University of St. Thomas
US military airstrikes on Islamic State-linked militants in north-western Nigeria on Christmas Day 2025 attracted global attention. The focus was on the international legal implications and whether the Nigerian government had consented to the strikes.
I’m a scholar of peace and security and have carried out research on Boko Haram’s protracted campaign of violence. The research…
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By Dian Spear, Senior research scientist, Stellenbosch University
Nicola van Wilgen-Bredenkamp, Research associate, Stellenbosch University
Patricia Holmes, plant ecologist, Stellenbosch University
Ronell R Klopper, Extraordinary Lecturer, University of Pretoria
Tony Rebelo, Scientist, South African National Biodiversity Institute
The latest checklist of Table Mountain flora shows that Cape Town is still a global hotspot for threatened flowering plants.
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By Silke Oldenburg, Senior Researcher in Anthropology, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
Anna Leander, Professor, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
Nora Doukkali, Doctoral Researcher in International Relations and Political Sciences
In Colombia’s coca-cultivating Catatumbo region on the border with Venezuela, community care and survival efforts amid escalating violence are in a state of emergency.
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By Jean-Lou Justine, Professeur, UMR ISYEB (Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité), Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)
Leigh Winsor, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, James Cook University
Citizen science allows us to discover how invasive flatworms travel from garden to garden… surprisingly, on the backs of dogs and cats!
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By Tandeep Sidhu, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba
Merissa Daborn, Assistant Professor in Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba
The Toronto Police Service is embroiled in an unprecedented crisis following a criminal investigation that led to several officers being charged with a list of drug trafficking, theft, conspiracy, fraud and other offences related to an organized crime investigation.
Project…
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By Arshad Majid, Professor of Cerebrovascular Neurology, School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield
The vagus nerve has quietly shaped how our bodies function for thousands of years. Recently, it has moved into the spotlight, especially in wellness culture, where manipulating it is often described as a way to calm the body, reset the nervous system or even treat a wide range of conditions.
As someone who researches the vagus nerve in clinical settings, I think it is important to explain what it actually does, what we know so far and where claims run ahead of the evidence.
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By Viren Swami, Professor of Social Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
About a decade ago, author Mandy Len Catron wrote an essay for the New York Times about “36 questions that lead to love”. The idea suggests that two people can grow closer – and even fall in love – by answering a series of increasingly intimate questions.
Catron described how in 2014 she and an acquaintance went on a date together. During the evening, they took turns asking and answering 36 questions. Before that meeting the pair both admitted to a slight mutual…
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By Paolo Aversa, Professor of Strategy, King's College London
Heavy demands for energy and water risk locking ski resorts into a model that climate change will ultimately make unviable.
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By Janset Özün Çetinkaya, Teaching Associate in Philosophy, University of Nottingham
Ian James Kidd, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham
For Aristotle, the true form of love wasn’t about intense passion or grand gestures on one day of the year.
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By Kelly Hignett, Senior Lecturer in History, Leeds Beckett University
The people of Berlin woke on August 13 1961 to discover that their city had been split in two.
Despite the earlier cold war division of Germany into east and west after 1945, the border between the two halves of Berlin had remained open, allowing most Germans to travel, mix and mingle freely across the city. This abruptly changed in 1961 when the East German authorities closed the Berlin border and…
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