By Rebecca Beech, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Oxford Brookes University
Renting clothing used to be restricted to a wedding suit or prom dress, but the options are growing and becoming more popular.
Today, you can rent clothes directly from other people through apps like By Rotation and Hurr, or go straight to high street brands such as John Lewis and Selfridges. Most clothing rental platforms are online only, so shoppers can’t test the fit, sizing or style before committing.
But in a recently published…
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By Manon Jones, Professor in Psychology / Director of Research, Bangor University
Cameron Downing, Lecturer in Psychology in Education, University of York
School pupils in Wales are falling behind in reading according to the latest international data.
The 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) is run by Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and compares the educational skills of 15-year-olds around the world every three years.
In 2025, 15-year-olds in Wales achieved an average reading score of 459, not hugely different from the OECD average of 461. But Wales remained significantly below England (497), Scotland…
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By Angela van der Berg, Director of the Global Environmental Law Centre; Associate Professor Department of Public Law & Jurisprudence, University of the Western Cape
South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal has held electricity utility Eskom and state regulators responsible for water pollution from a coal fired power station.
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By Obasanjo Bolarinwa, Senior lecturer, York St John University
Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Lecturer, James Cook University
Pregnancy and childbirth remain dangerous for many women globally. Complications such as severe bleeding and hypertensive disorders can become life-threatening, particularly when timely and appropriate healthcare is unavailable.
Around 70% of maternal deaths worldwide occur in sub-Saharan Africa. This is largely because many women still face barriers to timely and good quality maternity care.…
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By De Wet Swanepoel, Professor in Audiology in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, University of Pretoria
Every dollar invested in hearing care returns about $16. So why are 98% of Africans who need a hearing aid still going without one?
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By Kamaldeen O L Omosanya, Research Fellow, Department of Earth Science, University of the Western Cape, University of the Western Cape
From the Vredefort Dome in South Africa (the world’s oldest and largest known meteorite-impact structure) to the volcanic lakes of the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, Africa’s landscapes hold some of Earth’s oldest stories. Morocco’s M’Goun Unesco Global Geopark records more than 200 million years of geological history, while Tanzania’s Ngorongoro-Lengai landscape brings together a vast caldera, an active volcano and the fossil record of Olduvai…
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By Dominique Frère, Professeur d’archéologie et d’histoire ancienne, Université Bretagne Sud (UBS)
Bréhémont, clayn, chalamon or craponne… Never heard of them? These cheeses of old speak volumes about France’s history of cheesemaking.
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By Shambhavi Siddhi, PhD Candidate, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Western University
‘Saffron Kingdom’ is a film that seeks to reclaim and humanize the Kashmir story after years of misrepresentation by the Indian film industry. It streams in Canada.
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By Moa Wolff, Postdoctoral Fellow, Family Medicine and Community Medicine, Lund University
Anna Stubbendorff, Postdoctoral Fellow, Nutrition Epidemiology, Lund University
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By Rory McCarthy, Associate Professor in Politics and Islam, Durham University
Israel has been building settlements in the occupied West Bank for decades. But Britain’s new ban on the import of settlement goods comes in a response to a major escalation in construction over the past four years, which an International Court of Justice advisory opinion in 2024 concluded is illegal and must stop.
Most striking are recent steps to build a new settlement bloc known as E1 on the outskirts of Jerusalem.…
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